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… and now the FTC weighs in.
After the IC3 list released earlier, the FTC publishes it’s own list of ‘Consumer Complaints’ for 2010 The Federal Trade Commission today released the list of top consumer complaints received by the agency in 2010. And for the 11th year in a row, identity theft was number one. Of 1,339,265 complaints received in 2010, 250,854 (19%) were related […]
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Less 419 Scams while Nigerian Cable is Out?
Large parts of West Africa have communications blackouts after damage was found on the major undersea fiberoptic cable, known as SAT-3, which supplies countries such as Benin, Togo, Niger and Nigeria. The cable runs from Portugal and Spain to South Africa, via West Africa and has cut 70% of Nigeria’s bandwidth, causing severe problems for […]
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Hang Seng Bank Shares the Wealth!
My new friend, Patrick – I Love this guy – he contacts me out of the blue – he’s a high-up in the Hang Seng Bank and yet he find me, despite my never (to my knowledge) having given anyone the slightest idea that I am interested in helping move large amounts of money about […]
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Wall Street Bail-out Scam Email Joke
As reported in the Washington Post’s “The Trail‘ section, here’s an email that’s making the rounds in Washington, and now, the rest of the world. No one is claiming authorship, but the ‘trail’ seems to start at the SEC. Enjoy! Dear American: I need to ask you to support an urgent secret business relationship with […]
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$22M in UN Bribe Money to dispose of…… (immoral) suckers wanted
 Return-path: <HarryJantaman@un.org> Delivery-date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:55:08 -0700 (envelope-from <HarryJantaman@un.org>) id 1KiEua-0001DI-Em Received: from smtp-out.orange.net (smtp59.orange.fr [80.12.242.30]) X-ME-UUID: 20080923205501279.4453E6C00180@mwinf5902.orange.net Reply-To: <“harryj@e-mile.co.uk, jan_harry”@un-aaid.org> From: “H. Jantamanta” <HarryJantaman@un.org> Subject: [Bulk?]From Harry & Partners Message-Id: <20080923205501.4453E6C00180@mwinf5902.orange.net> From: Harry Jantamanta 3 Whitehall Court, London, SW1A 2EL London Private Mobile: 44 704 576 2068 My name is Harry […]
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Scam Victims as Criminal as the Scammers?
This just in…. Australian victims of Nigerian online scams are greedy and should be jailed along with the Africans who relieved them of their cash, according to High Commissioner Sunday Olu Agb (Nigerian Envoy to Canberra). “People who send their money are as guilty as those who are asking them to send the money,” He […]
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‘Lord of the Rings’ Spoof Scam
This spoof scam has been around for a while, but it bears repeating. Obviously done by soemone with a high geek factor AND a GSOH! I think I’ll do one in the style of ‘His Dark Materials (Philip Pullman)’ Dear Beloved, I am Danladi Majah , The only Son of late Counsellor GrÃma Grimbeth Majah […]
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Connecticut Fake Checks (Forwarding Excess) Scam
SOUTH WINDSOR, Connecticut police today warned of a fraudulent checks scam in which residents have been receiving bogus checks from FedEx or U.P.S. The checks are made out to the resident, and a form letter instructs the recipient to contact the sender via e-mail for further instructions. The scam works by having the unsuspecting recipient […]