Nigerian e-mail scammers still planning strong

 Nigerian E-mail Scam (also referred to as the 419 scam, a new mention of the content from the Nigerian Criminal Signal in which this sort of activities violate) tend to be chances are therefore popular that they can really should ideally be recognizable on first look. However, they keep dupe unsuspecting people in to financial losses amounting to millions of dollars -- disrupting their particular life. Types of like scam e-mails usually are many; a great deal so that it features stored it is position on the list of top ten internet/email scams for 2012. Some released illustrations can be found on Websense Security Labs' recently released blog, titled - "You may be big surprise too receive this letter from me…”

Instead of being much more believable to dupe individuals, as one could come to expect of like scam e-mails; a current research simply by Microsoft located that having an e-mail filled with misspelt phrases, grammar blunders actually work within their favour. It found in which, "Although it may well appear counter-intuitive, it appears that the far more implausible the bait, the greater the possibilities the scammer has of collecting some money.” To put forth an example, the post cites a particular e-mail, which is quite ironic in its disposition. The e-mail, as you can see in the image below is a typical Nigerian e-mail scam attempt, and it infact even contains a thing or two about how you should 'stop dealing with those people that are contacting you and telling you that your fund is with them, it is not in anyway with them,' and how 'they are only taking advantage of you and they will dry you up until you have nothing.'

This post additionally analyses that numerous would delete such emails when they'd discover them, and that can only get away from the a lesser amount of savvy because potential preys to help such scammers. This way, adds your blog, the scammer successfully keep include those with doubts concerning the credibility in the e-mail out there. Interestingly, the actual Nigerian e-mail scams have received so well-known, that it's been found of which even non-Nigerian scammers are utilizing it like a ploy to help dupe unsuspicious users. It adds, "Like respectable businesses, scammers are looking to help optimize their own operations, and want to spend your time on unproductive activities.

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Jiffy Lube caught by a news investigation team charging people for work and not doing it.Three years later Jiffy Lube is still scamming customers.

Caution over energy top-ups scam

Consumers are being warned about a doorstep scam contributing them cheap electricity but ending up costing them twice as much for their energy. They focus and energy companies said likely 85,000 households have been affected by the illegal sale of electricity meter top-ups.

Some customers were offered £50 of electricity meter top-up for a cash payment of just £25, but they paying twice because the money was not going to energy suppliers. A national campaign has been launched, urging electricity pre-payment meter customers to buy top-ups only through official channels.

Christine McGourty, director at Energy UK said: A serious and widespread scam and be launching the Top-Up Safe campaign to urge customers to steer clear of the criminals behind it. When you buy something fake online like a ticket for a football match you're the one who'll end up losing out in the end.

Energy companies can notice the scams and you'll surely pay twice for your electricity, first to the criminal and then again to your energy company, who can always detect when electricity has been used, but not paid for through the proper channels. Energy companies are firm to bring those responsible for these crimes to justice and are working closely with the police at a local to stamp out this illegal activity.

Mike O'Connor, chief executive of Consumer Focus reported: A disgraceful scam is putting cash in the pockets of criminals and thousands of people who are already hard pressed in this economic climate. Consumers must be alert for anyone who comes to their doorstep claiming to sell electricity credit. A customer who worried that they may have been affected should call their energy supplier or Consumer Direct to seek advice.

If anyone knows someone selling illegal electricity top-ups, please contact Crime stoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111 or Crimestoppers-uk.org. The community can play a vital role in helping to catch criminals, simply by taking a few minutes to pass on any information they may have.

Apple's Ping Attracting Scammers

Apple as it looks like prior did not employ any autonomous filtering of spamsor malicious URL’s. Now it’s attacking very new music-based social networking website called Ping. It looks like is only filtering disgusting photos posted on its social network. If they are serious of getting into this networking business, they also have to look into this forbidding aspect of the trade.

Ping is a result of the combination of different products and applications offered by Apple. To name a few are Lala.com and iTunes. Ping is simply 2 days old and is having its share of controversies. The first of the embarrassments came in the form of a clash between Facebook and Apple just before launching. The Chief Executive Officer, Steve Jobs, Apple did not agreed to the laborious demands of Facebook and Ping went on the floor without any flourishes from the world’s largest social network Facebook. There seemed to be no connection between the two.

The most common incidence of scamming on Apple's latest social venture, Ping, is the offering of free iPhones from a devious URL. Ping is turning out to be one of the favorite dwellings for spammers and they are getting malicious URL based spammed comments on their WebPages. Obviously the comment spam seems to be the favorite among spammers.

The senior technology consultant at Sophos Graham Clulely said: We're used to survey scams like this being spread wide via many sites like Facebook, but obviously the lack of filtering on Ping is making it a brand new playground for the bad guys to operate in. It's sarcastic that the most common scams on Ping right now turn around Apple's own iPhone. It's safe to assume that Ping does need to incorporate some basic filtering to prevent nasty messages from being posted, so confidently Apple's security team can extend this to also block scam messages and malicious links. Also the Ping users should be cautious of believing what they read on the new service.

Unfortunately, a solution to the budding Ping network is not foreseen in the near future. It’s difficult to comprehend, how Apple forgot to set up any application for catching the notorious well-known glitches. Now, all that can be done is wishing fortuity to Ping users and welcoming Apple into the world of social networking nuisances.

Taxman Scam

HM Revenue & Customs is warning pupil to beware of fraudsters who are posing as the taxman in a bid to get their hands on our current accounts.

The scam is actually fairly simple and based on endearing your confidence. The perpetrators simply contact you, as a taxpayer, by phone and convince you that you’re due a tax rebate. To claim your refund, you’re asked to provide your bank details and personal information. But, certainly, instead of getting a bit of cash back from the revenue, your bank account is emptied and your personal data sold on to other criminal organizations.

Scam By Email:

Phishing emails are hoaxes which attempt to coax out your bank details and individual security data. In such case, the sender will claim to be from HMRC and again asks you to verify your current account details by clicking on a link so that you can get back your tax rebate.

Scammer mail

Don't fall for these type of scam mails:
From: Samuel dlovu [mailto:hassanm20@yahoo.com.hk]
Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2010 10:44 PM
Subject: REPLY ME PLEASE 202.96.186.204

Dear Sir,

I know this mail is coming to you as a surprise, but accept it because am in
a very difficult situation and I need your urgent help and assistance.
As you receive this mail I pray that you use your kind heart to help me.
I have two boxes containing ($12.000.000.00) Twelve million at the
International Airport in Belgium as I write this mail.This money was left
for me by my late parents during the war in my country and was deposited in
a trust Company in Ghana .
Two weeks ago we made arrangement with a Diplomat to deliver the boxes to Mr
Jan kohl who promised to receive the boxes, but since the arrival of the
Diplomat in Belgium all efforts to contact Mr., Jan has failed. This is why
am contacting you to go to Belgium to receive the boxes for me after which I
will want you to use the money for investment for both of us.
I am ready to give you whatever percentage you wish to take after you
receive the boxes because you could be my last hope.
As soon as you are ready to assist me I will give you the contact of the
Diplomat in Belgium so that you can discuss with him on how to deliver the
boxes to you. And I will also give you the combination code to open the
boxes.
Find attached also is the Certificate of Deposit which my late parent used
in depositing the boxes with the trust company in Ghana.
I expect your urgent reply to relief me of the pains am going through now.
Thank you very much in anticipation of you reply.

Sincerely

Samuel dlovu.

Ashley Anne Kirilow :-A Fake Cancer Girl

Ashley Anne Kirilow, a 23-year-old Canadian, may have continued to scam people. She shaved her head, plucked her eyebrows, ravenous herself to look like a cancer patient. Then she founded a bogus cancer research charity and collected thousands of dollars in aid. She was taking people's money and it wasn't going to the University of Alberta.

Kirilow said, that she had brain, liver, stomach and ovarian cancer and that she was dying. Over the course of a year, she called her divorced parents, both of whom she has had little contact with, to ask for money for chemotherapy treatments. Her biological mother, a former school bus driver, told the The Toronto Star, "The only thing she ever wanted from me was money, and I couldn't ever give it to her."

Kirilow gave her friends two scam stories about her parents: In one, they were dead; in the other, they were drug addicts. She was alone and dying of cancer and had no money.

People in the Toronto music and skateboarding scenes, supported her cause. A Toronto charity, believing Kirilow was fatally ill, flew her to Disney World. The main volunteers for Cancer for Change allege that Kirilow took in more than $20,000. Privately, Kirilow had accumulated more than $30,000 in credit card debt.

Kirilow's father, Mike, told "GMA" that his daughter had been deceitful since a young age and that her criminal activity was predictable. “Her stepmother added that at age 16, Kirilow, who had left her mother's home to avoid following rules, "made this house a living hell."

Kirilow's parents have confirmed to media outlets that they engaged in a custody quarrel and that they had a dysfunctional relationship.

Kirilow is currently in police custody and facing several counts of fraud. Her parents will not pay her bail.

Advance Fee Scam

Police say they are unable to help to stop a phone scam that has already sapped thousands of dollars from Monash residents.
Monash CIU detective Sgt Brian Nolan stated the scammers were phoning people and posing as representatives of, and telling the customer they were entitled to a refund. But the caller reportedly says that before the money can be released, the customer has to pay tax on the amount, and directs them to transfer the payment through money transfer service Western Union.

Sgt Nolan reported “The callers leave a number that appears to be an Australian number, but the number is re-routed to India”. He said the wired money was “basically untraceable”.
Ms Healey said “A scam of this nature is called Advanced Fee Fraud, where the scammer requests payment in advance, on the false promise of a big cash payout.
In 2009 to 10, Consumer Affairs Victoria received about 260 calls to its main advice line and 10 formal complaints about a variety of advanced fee fraud scams.
If you are a victim of a scam, go to consumer.vic.gov.au.

Beware Of Internet Fraud

• None of us are completely safe from running into an online scam. So, all Internet users need to be cautious when they receive unsolicited e-mails and all must be educated of scams.
• Scams are so common in today’s world that the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center has said that over 560 million dollars have been lost to internet scams.
• More peoples are needed from the internet society to post more videos and blogs to create scam awareness among people.

Charity Scam

Ohio authorities have issued a nationwide warranty for Bobby Thompson, the director of a suspect veteran’s charity organization. He used a stolen identity to execute an apparent fundraising scam.
Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray stated Thursday that the man who represented himself as Bobby Thompson used a false identity to rent a UPS box that served as a collection point for donations to the state's chapter of the U.S. Navy Veterans Association. Authorities have charged him with identity scam.
The real Bobby Thompson, whose identity (Social Security number and date of birth) was stolen, has absolutely no connection to the U.S. Navy Veterans Association.

The infer most recently lived in Tampa, Fla., but deserted his rented duplex in March after the St. Petersburg Times newspaper began inquiring him about the activities of the U.S. Navy Veterans Association.

The nonprofit association is under investigation in Virginia about whether millions of dollars raised by the group truly went to help Navy veterans. Regulators are unable to find its leaders, whose only known addresses are UPS mail drops.

According to Cordray's office, Ohioans have contributed nearly $1.9 million to the association.

Most of the elected officials who received contributions from Thompson moved quickly to donate the funds to charity. Bobby Thompson was the second-largest individual contributor to Cuccinelli's campaign.

Marriage Scam

Sussex vicar guilty of immigration marriage scam

A vicar has been found responsible of carrying out hundreds of scam marriages to bypass immigration law.

Alex Brown conducted 383 weddings, over four years at the Church of St Peter and St Paul in St Leonards, Sussex, 360 of them were fake.

Crown Prosecution Service said it was thought to be the largest fake marriage case it had brought to court. The jury at Lewes Crown Court convicted the 61-year-old of conspiring to facilitate illegal immigration.
Co-defendants Vladymyr Buchak, 33-year-old, have also been found guilty of the same offence, paid eastern Europeans up to £3,000 each to marry Africans, mainly from Nigeria.

The court heard Brown conducted the 360 fake ceremonies between July 2005 and July 2009. The defendants were caught after the UK Border Agency investigated the bogus marriages. Brown was arrested last June.

Jurors were shown photocopies of the marriage register which showed hundreds of people who had got married all seem to live in a small number of streets, with 90 couples registered as living in one road. In some cases, several brides and grooms claimed to live in the same house. The court heard most of those involved in the marriages had given false addresses. Brown insisted he only ever married couples he was sure were together for the right reasons and said he only made exceptions if the bride-to-be was about to give birth. Sentencing was adjourned until 6 September for pre-sentence reports to be carried out on Brown and Adelasoye.

Jury said specialist teams of immigration and police officers were working to tackle this form of organised criminality.

Introduction To Scam Security

Introduction to scam security

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How To Avoid Scam

U.S. citizens lose billions of dollars yearly in international financial scams.This video helps you when you are being scammed.

Signs Of Scam:

• scammer and victim person meets online.
• Will send photo of attractive person.
• Suddenly needs financial help.
• Claims to be U.S citizen, but will use grammar and spelling indicative of a non-English speaker.

Protect Yourself From Scammers

If you receiving a mail like “congratulation you the lucky winner of 5million dollars”, what will be your feedback?

To protect yourself from scammers:

• Just look at these kind of mail carefully and don’t let greediness and the initial excitement associated with receiving note of huge amounts of winnings blind you.
• Before sending the information’s like home address, telephone number and getting contact with these kinds of scammers just read the scams.
• Keep one thing in mind, for getting an individual’s information, a legitimate organization will never contact you via email.

fake passort used by dating scammers

Fake passort used by dating scammers:

A fake passport is a passport issued by governing bodies and then copied by persons not authorized to create such documents or engage in such modifications, for the purpose of deceiving those who would view the documents about the identity or status of the bearer.
It also encompasses the activity of acquiring passports from governing bodies by falsifying the required supporting credentials in order to create the preferred identity.

Beware of passport scam:

If you receive such a mail, then file a complaint to the Nigerian Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

Fraud Awareness Alert

The video informs the communal about possible fraudulent solicitations, both online and in individual, and educates them on how to protect themselves.
file a complaint for these type of fraudsters.

scambaiter-tricks

Scambaiting

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scams and frauds

A book related to scams and frauds-Lance Spicer.Don't get scammed by ebay.The scammers may offers to buy some expensive item on eBay.

419 scam awareness

The number "419" indicates to the article of the Nigerian Criminal Code(part of Chapter 38: "Obtaining Property by fake pretences; Cheating") dealing with fraud. The American Dialect Society has traced the term "419 Scam" back to 1992.
scam awareness quiz

victims of an online scam

Be alert of online scammers.Although its not possible to recover your money.You can prevent the repetition of that kind of fraud.