Scam the scammers

Scams target people of all backgrounds, ages and income levels. There is no one group of people who are more likely to become a victim of a scam. If you think you are 'too clever' to fall for a scam, you may take risks that scammers can take advantage of.

Scams succeed because of the basic two things:

Initially, a scam looks like the real thing. The other thing, scammers manipulate you by ‘pushing your buttons’ to produce the automatic response they want.

While they are constantly on the look-out for dishonest operators, some scams only come to their attention when people report them. Scambaiting is the practice of pretending interest in a fraudulent scheme in order to influence a scammer in many possible ways.

Phishing Scam

New Yorker Jessica Almonte has been receiving the same text message; many times a day for the past couple of weeks is an example of the newest consumer phishing scam.

Federal Trade Commission’s Northeast Region director Len Gordon said: Those text messages try to get your personal information, your credit card number, your bank account number, your Social Security numbers. Scammers need this information as they going to abuse it and try to steal money from you.

Not like phishing emails, if you pay per text message, every time you receive that useless text, it is on your dime. Almonte reported an individual have to take different actions to filter the spam mails.

For more information regarding smishing scams, go to ftc.gov.

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Australian Communications and Media Authority's Warns Of Do Not Call Register Scam

ACMA is forewarning the users of a telemarketing scam that claims to add phone numbers to the Do Not Call Register list for a fee.

Unscrupulous telemarketers are offering to list consumers’ phone numbers on the Do Not Call Register for a fee.

According to the Australian Communications and Media Authority, Unscrupulous telemarketers are contributing to list consumers’ phone numbers on the Do Not Call Register for a fee.

An ACMA Chairman, Chris Chapman said: ‘The Do Not Call Register is a free service provided by the Australian Government. He warned the consumers not to provide any personal identification or financial details to telemarketers making such calls.

If you get a call from someone offering to list your number on the Do Not Call Register for a fee, get as much information as possible from the caller and lodge a complaint by calling 1300 792 958 or by logging on to www.donotcall.gov.au.

Mr. Chapman said the ACMA has received more than thirty complaints about these types of scams over the last month, even though the actual number of scam calls being made is likely to be far higher.

For more details on the Do Not Call Register go to www.donotcall.gov.au.

Pakistan Cricketers Arrests For Fixing Scam

Following the match-fixing scam (scandal), the Pakistan cricket team looks set for trouble after it was reported on Monday that large quantities of bank notes were found in the London hotel rooms of a few Pakistan cricketers in an attack by the Scotland Yard detectives and they could be under arrest on charges of corruption.

Officers also found large numbers of bank notes in the rooms of unknown players which exceeded the daily maintenance payment made to the cricketers by their employers. British newspaper The Independent reported on Monday: It is not known if these bank notes relate to the allegations.

The reporter stated: The police investigation, which led to officers confiscating the mobile phones of three Pakistan players including the team's captain Salman Butt in a late-night sweep on Saturday, raises the opportunity of members of an international cricket team being arrested and facing suit in Britain before the tourists leave after the final game of their summer tour on 22 September.

The Scotland Yard detectives on Sunday visited the Pakistan dressing room immediately after the third day's play in the fourth Test against England to question the players after the sting operation exposed 'spot-fixing'. They took statements from skipper Salman Butt, bowlers Mohammad Aamer and Mohammad Asif and wicketkeeper Kamran Akmal for fixing scam and confiscated their mobile phones and passports, it has been reported.

In a smart operation carried out by The News of the World, bookie Majeed was caught on tape saying that pacers Mohammad Aamer and Mohammad Asif had bowled three deliberate no-balls by pre-arrangement on the opening day of the fourth Test against England last Thursday.

Majeed, who was arrested before being released on bail on Monday, also claimed that the result of the Sydney Test between Australia and Pakistan in January was also rigged.

Scammers Get Scammed By Scambaiters

Scammers get scammed by Scambaiters

Marriage Scam

A hot Mexican actress and her American husband are likely to stand trial on immigration fraud charges this week after her spurned fashion-photographer ex-boyfriend claimed to feds that the couple's marriage was a scam.

Markus Klinko, star of the Bravo reality illustrate "Double Exposure," told federal immigration officials said that Fernanda Romero's 2005 marriage to Kent Ross, of California, was a green-card scam after she deserted Klinko in 2007, prosecutors say.

Klinko is now predictable to be the star witness at Romero and Ross' immoral trial, slated to start tomorrow in Los Angeles.

Romero and Ross, both were 28, each face up to 5 years in central prison if convicted.

Their lawyers maintain the wedding weren't a scam, saying the pair had been in love but the marriage didn't work out.

"This is a case of two young people in love but immature to the complexities of marriage. The older man, Markus Klinko, who was fanatical with a young woman half his age, who spurned as her lover, was driven by malice and revenge to destroy her life, her career and her reputation," their filings say.

Prosecutors said that although Ross and Romero's claims of a "twister romance" that resulted in their June 2005 marriage, they were in fact set up by Romero's ex-boyfriend, Michael Ball (president of the Rock & Republic jeans brand).
Fernanda Romero, who had a bit part in last year's "Drag Me to Hell," paid Ross a $5,000 dowry for serving to keep her in the United States and working as a model and actress, filings say. The feds said the pair never even lived jointly.

The criminal complaint said: "After they were married, Ross lived as a single male with a roommate and sustained to date as if he had never been married. Romero likewise lived as an unmarried woman and carried on dating other men”.

One of those men was Klinko, who has photographed the likes of Britney Spears and Mariah Carey. The pair met about a month after Romero's marriage and went on their first date 2 days after, the feds say.

The filing says she came spotless about the marriage in '06, telling Klinko she had tied the knot only so "she could obtain permanent-residence status." The complaint says Romero discarded Klinko in early 2007.

The relationship didn't end silently. It was at the center of a $500,000 lawsuit Klinko filed later that year against Ball, the Rock & Republic CEO. The astounding suit charged that Ball had backed out of a deal with Klinko after resulting out the lensman had been seeing Romero.

The outfit, later dismissed, also charged that Ball arranged Romero's marriage to Kent.

Klinko has angrily left without ratting out the marriage, but both the feds and Romero have fingered him as the steal.

Romero has filed court papers and said she plans to disclose the Swiss native had his own scam marriage in 1987 but dumped his wife after four months when he found an American he liked more.

Pakistani saves life of Mumbai businessman from Nigerian Scam

A Mumbai based businessman lost Rs.7 lakhs to a Nigerian fraud in an African nation, where he was called for a business deal but came away unharmed with the help of a Pakistani national.

The later guided him to an Indian community office and the local police who saved his life. Other traders had been killed by the same Nigerian gang, local cops told to P.Chandra Sekaran. He has now penned a script to make a documentary on the Nigerian scam.
P.Chandra Sekaran started an export business in 2007. He got an email from an organization, Shepherd Aid Network, a country neighboring Nigeria.

Sekaran went to Benin at the invitation of the organisation's director, John Ndaba, to complete legal formalities for the business. Sekaran was received at the airport by a Nigerian representative. He was asked to deposit Rs.7 lakh with the finance department of the company. Ndaba promised to take him on a tour of their rehabilitation centre, but his calls to Ndaba, the next two days, went unrequited.

The third day, he managed to contact the organization's office alone but was twisted away. He then started to query about the organisation but locals able understood only French.

His four hours of try ended when a man introduced himself as a Pakistani. Abdulla guided Sekaran to the community office in Beni, where he narrated his story to community officer Manglani Gobind who contacted the police. Sekaran then received a call from Ndaba, telling him to take back his money.

Gobind and Sekaran along with a team of policemen raided the organisation's office. The police then provided protection to Sekaran for three days till he returns back to India.

Sekaran reported: "I am lucky I survived. I approached the president and senior ministers to make a documentary on my script”.

Police warn of phone scams

Police in the southern tier are warning the public to beware of phone scammers.

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.

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.

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.

Scam Busters

To protect yourself from dangerous internet scams, beware of scammers’ website, list of scammers’ mail, scammers address.

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.

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…

Scambaiter Turns on love scammers

The scammers realize that whenever they scam somebody they run the threat of creating a scambaiter for life. The more the scammers scam, there will be more scambaiters.