Big rise in scams as cons get creep

Beware unforeseen lotto wins and letters from Nigerians and unwanted government grants scammers are on the march. OFT (Office of Fair Trading) had already received 50% increase in scam complaints on October, as compared to 2009. Latest figures reveal about 3408 reports of dishonest operators have been made to authorities since January, compared with 2174 total last year.

Lottery scams were the most complained about followed by notorious deposit and investment services. Get schemes and Nigerian letters received 471 and 411 complaints.

Fair Trading Minister Peter Lawlor said that the complaints were covered a broad variety of scams like fake lotteries , debit fraud, and sweepstakes scams, fax back scams, tax refund scams and fake inheritance scams. Most scams play on emotions and attract the interest of their targets with the promise of money before requesting payment to cover administration fees.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) and the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) revealed an alarming 500 per cent spear in scam phone calls since August. He additionally reported: Over past two months complaints about scam telephone calls to the ACCC and the ACMA have increased considerably from 200 per month to around 2000 across the two agencies.

People are also being caught by scammers offering to place phone numbers on the Do Not Call Register. ACCC Chairman Graeme Samuel chairman said the best way to stop scammers was to never disclose any personal or financial details. Report a scam to authorities at www.scamwatch.gov.au.

Nigerian scammers caught and sentenced to 12 years

Everyone has received an email scam from some pretend Nigerian prince or official with a deal too good to be true. In spite of growing public awareness, there are still some ill-fated individuals that fall for these scams. These kinds of scams can be frustrating for those that fall prey to it. A Nigerian man has been sentenced to 12 years after being arrested late last year after running an advance fee email scam operation.

Nigerian advance fee scams involve someone pretending to be a wealthy individual in need of urgently moving huge amounts of funds from one location to another. These individuals will ask you to help them by paying for the fees requisite to do this. This type of exactly what Okpako Mike Diamreyan did as he scammed 67 victims between 2004 and 2009 out of $1.3 million.

Diamreyan fake the various individuals such as Prince Nana Kamokai of Sierra Leone. He also told acquaintances that he wanted to make $1 million before going back to Nigeria and he reported to prosecutors, "I want to forget America and come back home. It seems that he won’t be going anywhere soon as he will be spending the next 12 years in jail.

4 Men Charged in NY in 'Princess Diana' Email Scam

Federal authorities said Thursday: Four Queens, N.Y. men operated an international email lottery scam that suckered 30 to 40 people around the globe out of over $2 million.

NEW York City prosecutors have stimulating four men with cheating people by telling them they would won the bogus $5 Million Princess Diana Lottery.
The two Nigerian-born men, who are citizens living in Cambria Heights, blanketed the internet with emails promising their victims a $5 million windfall from a scam Princess Diana Lottery.

According federal prosecutors: They referred to their victims as magu Nigerian slang for fool.

A grievance unsealed Thursday in federal court in Brooklyn accuses the men of telling other victims in e-mails they would inherit millions of dollars from distant relatives. The ploy was used to get the victims to give up bank account and other personal information that was used to steal their identities. Some victims even were convinced to wire money to pay taxes.

Victims from across the United States and their banks lost in excess of $2 million. The men each face up to 30 years in prison if convicted of wire fraud conspiracy. Diana was the Princess of Wales and she died in a Paris car crash in August 1997. Patrick Ugochukwu Ohazurike, 41, was arrested in Tennessee and is predictable to be transferred to Brooklyn.

Beware Nigerian Scam Emails

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Interne Money Scams-Fake Drugs

You may think that internet scam is rare, but the truth is different. It affects the lives of many people whose only crime was to be slightly naïve. When some person got in scam, the first thing we tell them is to go straight to the police, but sought us out to talk about the real-life effects of internet crime on people's lives.

Around the world, people are losing their savings and homes to internet criminals. The most common attack is still phishing, believing that they're receiving emails from their bank or some other institution. When they try to log in via the provided link, all they see is an error message apologizing for heavy server load and asking them to try again later. But the truth is, their log-in details have been saved and the criminals now have access to their bank account.

To Beat The Internet scam:

One of the most common tricks and goals of scambaiter is advanced fee fraud. The general approach is to dangle the promise of huge gains and then ask for ever-increasing fees, expenses before they dole out a slice of the fictional cash pie.

Fake Drugs:

A large amount of spam concerns fake drugs, where scammers target those looking for a good time. Viagra, stimulants and smart drugs are freely available via internet pharmacies. In some instances, outfits have even offered cannabis and ecstasy.

The problem is that like some pharmacy will simply collect the credit card details. It isn't worth the risk.

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.

Now Its Time To Scam the Scammers

Scammers often get away with their crimes from law enforcement. But there are people who are helping victims fight back. Scammers are there to grab your money.
Here is an interesting video to catch the scammers in a smart way.

Inernet Scambaiter

TRICKS OF SCAMBAITING:

• Keeping the scammers busy through sending mails, interact with them until they ask for money.So they can’t able to interact with other persons.
• Fixing an appointment to meet in airport. So they lose their time.
• The goal is to let them run…

Don't fall for scammers on facebook

Facebook friends could actually be scammers, hackers,scam artists etc. So be alert of fraudsters who is targeting on facebook.

• But scammers easily get scammed by scambaiter.
• In order to steal from users, cyber criminal may target facebook accounts and other social networking accounts.
• Users who fall on scams should need to log in and change their passwords immediately.

Overseas Scammers

The case of an elderly couple that have been duped into sending money to various people all over the world - and sustained to do it even they were being warned by the police that it is highly apt that these recipients were international fraudsters.

The couple has sent money to various people in Africa, UK and Hong Hong, and they lost a little over half a million of Australian dollars in whole.

The scammers based in the UK and in Hong Kong carried out an "inheritance" scam, while the Ghana scammers, two women forged a friendly relationship with the couple over the Internet and asked for money for accommodation, food and additional expenses. The husband even traveled to Ghana on one occasion and met the woman.

Law enforcement officers visited the couple relating to money transfers linked to these four recipients and talked to them about these recipients were scammers. But have clearly not made much impact, since the couple sustained to send money overseas.

Beware of loan modification scam

The Housing Partnership, a non-profit organization in Dover, conducted a Loan Scam Alert event, providing information on loan scams against those departing into foreclosure. This happening was one of more than 150 loan amendment scam awareness events held to inform tens of thousands of homeowners on how to evade and report loan modification scams.
Eight college and high school students, led by Donald Marulanda, a student intern at the Housing Partnership, walked door to door to over 1,000 households in Dover.

The alert is to help keep people from becoming victims of scams. The events during Neighbor Works Week will help homeowners learn how to avoid and report loan modification scams, which will sustain the dream of homeownership for thousands. Ken Wade, CEO of NeighborWorks America stated that: Promoting, preparing and protecting long-term homeownership has been a Neighbor Works Week tradition for 26 years.
The Housing Partnership, a United Way agency and a Neighbor Works America chartered group, helps promote home ownership through group education, one on one counseling and matched savings clubs.

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Telemarketing scam

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• It's very difficult to get your money back if you've been scammed over the phone. Before you buy anything by telephone, remember.
• Don't buy from a strange company. Genuine businesses understand that you want more information about their company and are happy to comply.
• Always ask for and wait until you receive written objects about any offer or aid. If you get unsolicited mail about costly investments, ask someone whose financial advice you trust to review them. But, unfortunately, be careful not everything written down is true.
• You must not be asked to pay in advance for services. Pay services only after they are send.

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