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ScamBlackBook? Hmmm…
There’s one of those ‘Ebook’ thingys out there, being sold aggressively by a website called www.scamblackbook.com. I’m all in favor of information disseminiation but something about this site has me feeling uneasy. Some questions – Has anyone seen this book and can they tell me whether it’s worth the rather steep $59 price tag? Has […]
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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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PhishTank.com – Anti Phishing Website that Gets Results!
PhishTank.com – Anti Phishing Website! Here’s the thing – from now on, ANY TIME you get an email that sends you to a PayPal/Bank of America/Google Adsense/eBay/your-bank-name site that you know is a scam site [that just wants your login/password/credit card/bank details] – immediately report it to PhishTank.com. They are the database that many browsers […]
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Anatomy of a Secondary Scam – Taking down a Nigerian Scam
After receiving this email … Attention: This email is not in any manner directed to you, but its purposely and specifically directed to Nigeria Scam victims. . However, if you have fallen for Nigerian Scams, do not hesitate to contact us or visit our website for more details on how we can help. We shall […]
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Lawyers get Scammed Too!
It seems that even ‘those who should know better’ are fair game when it comes to the ubiquitous email scam – lawyers are being targeted for particularly high stakes, on-off counterfeit check scams, solicited via email. The California Bar Journal has provided a nice graphic to show how the scam works. In a recent example, […]
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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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Monthly round up of scams. July 2008
The scam that inspired a poem WalesOnline – United Kingdom I JOINED our local OAP group last year and was asked to bring along my favourite poem. Not having an interest in poetry or having a book of poems meant I was in quite a quandary. However, the day before the meeting I received a […]