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Hippy-eye-ay – WTF is a HYIP?
According to Wikipedia, a High Yield Investment Program (aka HYIP) is … A high-yield investment program (HYIP) is a type of Ponzi scheme, which is an investment scam that promises an unsustainably high return on investment by paying previous investors with the money invested by newcomers. Ok, yet another scam – so what? Well, there’s […]
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Golden 1 Phone Scam hits Sacramento
Social engineering is an approach used to gain unauthorized access to or acquisition of information assets. This approach relies on misrepresentation and the trusting nature of individuals, and is often carried out through the use of phishing telephone calls or email. A phishing telephone call or phishing email may sound or look as though it […]
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Obama gets Serious about Cyber Security
In February 2009, President Obama directed a 60-day review of the plans, programs and activities underway throughout the government that address communications and information infrastructure (i.e., cyberspace). The purpose was to develop a strategic framework to ensure that initiatives in this area are integrated, resourced and coordinated appropriately, both within the Executive Branch and with […]
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Mortgage/Bankruptcy Scam Warning!
The US Trustee Program, part of the US DoJ, runs the Federal bankruptcy system, monitoring the conduct of people involved in bankruptcy cases, ensuring compliance with applicable laws and investigating bankruptcy fraud and abuse. They recently issued the following warning for people who are already overwhelmed by the legal juggernaut of a bankruptcy filing and […]
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Who or What is BobBear?
In my infrequent callouts to other websites that (like Scamdex) were created out of the blind fury experinced by seeing bad people taking money from good people, I have another site for you to take notice of. But first, a recap: When Scamdex started in 2004, there were very few sites about scams and Internet […]
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Gringotts Bank Business Opportunity – Harry Potter Spoof Email
In a lighter vein, here’s one I knocked up myself – guess what I’m reading at the moment! Though seems unsolicited, this owlmail is a business proposal to you. I appreciate the fact that you have every reason to be suspension, please note this proposal is very real. I will employ you to read it […]
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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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Insurance Scam Job with tortured bizspeak free!
Here’s a cute one – of course it’s our old friend the ‘transaction processing clerk’ scam, gussied up a little to be an insurance invoicer/reimburser. What caught my eye was the amusing biz speak which looks like it’s been through the Dialectizer, a website that has been around for years, that will translate any text […]