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Mrs Thatcher and the £20,000,000 from her hubby
From: Lady Rebecca Thatcher. No:36 Old Shrewberry Street, London England. Beloved,i am Lady Rebecca Thatcher, suffering from cancerous ailment..I used to be married to Sir Jeremy Thatcher an Englishman who is dead and resting peacefully. My husband was into private practice all his life before he passed. Our life together as man and wife lasted […]
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Skype Chat fails Scamdex Reporting Criteria
Scamdex believes that every provider of interactive services should have, front and center, a simple way to report abusers of it’s service. So, a provider of free email needs to have an easy-to-find way to report people using it’s email for scamming or spamming. This reporting should be linked directly to a mechanism which flags […]
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Craigs List Scam hits Omaha Truck Seller
The owner of a truck in Omaha Nebraska was almost caught by a scam commonly used to dupe people out of thousands of dollars using the comm ads website, Craigs List (www.craigslist.org). He was trying to sell his truck on the site and was contacted by a buyer who sent him a cashiers check by […]
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Michigan County treasurer in Million Dollar Nigerian Scam
A former Michigan county treasurer was arrested last week for allegedly embezzling more than US$1.2 million in public funds, which he sent to a Nigerian fraud scam. Thomas Katona, 56, the former treasurer of Alcona County, was arraigned in a district court on 17 January on eight counts of embezzlement by a public official and […]
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Even more ‘Top Ten Scams of 2006’
From the good old Office of Fair Trading (OFT) in the UK this time. No ‘TOTP’ type chart rundown this time with information that everyone knows (or ought to know) already – this is a report based in real information. The report that says that UK consumers are losing £3.5 billion (presumably 3 thousand, five […]
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“Black Money” Scam – As seen on TV
If you can wait while the ad plays, this is a very interesting backgrounder for the ‘Nigerian’ scam called ‘Black Money’. In this scam, suitcases full of black paper are sold, along with a very expensive chemical which they claim will wash the black ink off the money, returning it to it’s full value. Black […]
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Today’s Sorry Scam Story
I had to break some bad news to a very nice, normal, professional lady in San Jose, California today. I got possession of a scammer’s email account and read with horror the scam unfolding. The story was the same as usual, some good Christian person with a large fortune wanting it to go to a […]
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Pets in Transit Scam
“There’s a little doggy in our airport who has no owner. If no-one claims him in the next three days, he will be put down. All it takes is a few dollars to pay the shipping and he can be in New York by next Tuesday” So goes the scam which straight away can have […]