{"id":561,"date":"2010-09-02T16:02:58","date_gmt":"2010-09-03T00:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/2010\/09\/nigerian-scam-still-top-online-scam\/"},"modified":"2010-09-23T13:05:25","modified_gmt":"2010-09-23T21:05:25","slug":"nigerian-scam-still-top-online-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/2010\/09\/nigerian-scam-still-top-online-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Nigerian&#8217; Scam still top online Scam, says PandaLabs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>the best defense<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outbound\/article\/www.pandalabs.com');\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pandalabs.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">PandaLabs<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pandasecurity.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Panda Security\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/a>s  anti-malware laboratory has drawn up a ranking of the most widely used  scams over the last few years. These confidence tricks, which are still  in wide circulation, all have the same objective: to defraud users of  amounts ranging from $500 to thousands of dollars.<\/p>\n<p>Typically, these scams follow a similar pattern: initial contact is  made via email or through social networks. The intended victim is then  asked to respond, either by email, telephone, fax, etc. Once this  initial bait has been taken, criminals will try to gain the trust of the  victim, finally asking for a sum of money under one pretext or another.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outbound\/article\/twitter.com');\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/luis_corrons\" target=\"_blank\">Luis Corrons<\/a>, Technical Director of PandaLabs, <em>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153As  with all the classic scams that predate the Internet, many of the  numerous users that fall for these tricks and lose their money are  reticent to report the crime. And if recovering the stolen money was  difficult in the old days, it is even harder now as the criminals\u00e2\u20ac\u2122  tracks are often lost across the Web. The best defense is to learn how  to identify these scams and avoid taking the bait\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Panda Labs\" href=\"http:\/\/press.pandasecurity.com\/news\/top-scams-on-the-web\/\">More information<\/a> at the PandaLabs website.<\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the best defense PandaLabs, Panda Security\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s anti-malware laboratory has drawn up a ranking of the most widely used scams over the last few years. These confidence tricks, which are still in wide circulation, all have the same objective: to defraud users of amounts ranging from $500 to thousands of dollars. Typically, these scams follow a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,2,13],"tags":[146,78,76],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":562,"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions\/562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}