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Fighting the Credit Card Scammers (and the baddest countries!)
Fraudlabs are aimed at online retailers and they provide some useful services for checking that the credit card transaction you are about to approve looks ‘right’. Given a combination of IP address, shipping address and credit card identification, they will give you a clear description of why that transaction is not a good risk. In […]
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That ‘Check Receiving’ job IS a scam!
Here’s a recent scam job offer I received, one of many. Better written than usual, but the same tagline – ‘Payment Processing‘ (aka ‘Transaction Processing Agent‘ etc). This scam involves sending the victim a large check, then asking him to deduct a commission (usually 5-15%) and then to send the rest on to a third […]
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Ghouls targetted in Virgina Tech Phishing Scam
To those people who want to see what happens when a madman shoots 32 other students, there is a sting out there just for them. Email Spam promises camera phone footage of the Virginia Tech tragedy, but the website just tries to grab your bank details instead. IT security and control firm Sophos has warned […]
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Eggs is eggs? – No, not really!
Came across this fascinating scam – selling battery-farmed eggs as ‘Free Range’. British consumers are eggstremely conscious about where their food comes from. (Way more so than Americans who like not to think of such yukky subjects). So – Big thumbs down to GMOs (Genetically Modified foods), and a rather hard stare (ala Paddington Bear) […]
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eBay feels the pain of phishing (at last)
A news report in eWeek has me chuckling ruefully. A Romanian calling himself ‘Vladuz’ is causing havoc at eBay and eBay has been forced to take notice. Due to a combination of spam phishing attempts by emails such as these, and (he claims) hacking of the eBay databases, he has been able to get access […]
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No Surprises there dept.
For the seventh year in a row, identity theft tops the FTC’s Annual List of Top Consumer Complaints. http://ftc.gov/opa/2007/02/topcomplaints.htm :O accounting for 36 percent of the 674,354 complaints received between January 1 and December 31, 2006. Other categories near the top of the fraud complaint list include shop-at-home/catalog sales; prizes, sweepstakes and lotteries; Internet services […]
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White Van Scam – Don’t Buy These Speakers!
This one actually happened to me. I was filling up at a gas station. A white Suburban pulled up beside me and a young guy asked if I wanted to buy some speakers – the story was something along the lines of ‘These were extra to a job and if we take them back then […]