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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 […]
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Richard and Judy – Cheesy Competition Scam
UK Broadcaster Channel 4 faces damaging allegations that the Richard And Judy show is systematically cheating viewers out of tens of thousands of pounds in a premium-rate phone quiz scam. The phone in number goes up and thousands of people call in on a premium rate phone number, paying £1.00 ($2.00) to enter the competition. […]
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Green Card Lottery Scam (DV-2006-2007)
Here’s the latest example of this nasty scam preying,as usual, on those members of society with probably the least to lose. The US Government, as you may not be aware, makes available 50,000 permanent resident visas annually, drawn from random selection among all entries to persons who meet strict eligibility requirements from countries with low […]
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Scamdex on the Beeb!
Scamdex got a mention on BBC Radio 4s new IT programme! The first episode, Staying secure in internet banking, discussed the increase in the number of customers banking online and the inevitable increase in the number of internet banking scams. The presenter, Rajesh Mirchandani (pictured) discusses the problem with representatives from the UK banking trade […]
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Are you using Firefox? – Why Not?
Firefox has many advantages over the competition, The main one being the toolbar add-in. The first one you should install is Google. The really really great thing about the Google toolbar is the builtin antip-phishing detection/protection system. The way this works is as follows: You read an email (eg. Purportedly from PayPal) that tells you […]
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Scamdex Logo Competition – Major Prizes!
As you may have guessed, my design skills are not my best feature. Since I launched Scamdex in 2004, the logo I designed using the excellent (and simple) ‘Banner Maker Pro‘ product has remained. I recently bought a copy of Xara3D (v5) and got to work. Here’s what I came up with: – Not bad […]
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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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Bank loses $1.1m to online fraud
Nordea says it has refunded the affected account holders Internet fraudsters have stolen around 8m kronor ($1.1m; £576,000) from account holders at Swedish bank Nordea. The theft, described by Swedish media as the world’s biggest online fraud, took place over three months. The criminals siphoned money from customer’s accounts after obtaining login details using a […]