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.

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.

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”.

latest news:Taxman warns of new email scam

CUSTOMS officers have warned taxpayers to be wary of a new phone scam where callers telephone businesses pretending to be the taxman.

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) said it had received reports of fraudsters informing businesses – and members of the public – they were due a tax rebate, and then asking for their bank card details over the phone.

The scam email often begins with a sentence such as “We have reviewed your tax return and our calculations of your last year’s accounts show a tax refund of XXXX is due.”

The thieves then attempt to take money from the account using the details provided. HMRC said victims risked having their bank accounts emptied and their personal details sold on to other organised criminal gangs.

The warning comes amid a recent surge in the number of tax scam “phishing” emails reported to HMRC. In the last three months, HMRC said it had shut down more than 180 websites that were responsible for sending out the fake tax rebate emails.

HMRC said the increase in the number of scam emails reported to it was partly due to people following its advice and forwarding the messages to the department’s online reporting facility.

Such is the scale of the problem that in September last year, a record 83,000 phishing attempts were reported to HMRC. The following month, an unprecedented 10,000 reports of phishing scams were made to HMRC on one day alone.

Chris Hopson, Director of Customer Contact at HMRC said: “We only ever contact customers who are due a tax refund in writing by post. We never use telephone calls, emails or external companies in these circumstances. We strongly urge anyone receiving such a phone call not to give any information to the caller, but report it to the police straightaway.
“If customers receive an email claiming to be from HMRC, we recommend they send it to us for investigation before deleting it permanently.”

HMRC said it thoroughly investigated phishing attacks and worked with other law enforcement agencies in the UK and overseas. In the last 18 months, scam networks have been shut down in a number of countries, including Austria, Mexico, the UK, South Korea, the USA, Thailand and Japan.

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.

Police warn of phone scams

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

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.

Scam From: benjaminv03@gmail.com

A person had posted an add like wanted iBook G3 Clamshell for $100. The person has got a scam mail from benjaminv03@gmail.com.

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.

Interview With "Black Money" Scam Victim

A 39 year old teacher lost about 140, 000 to a black money scam syndicate after sympathising with a widow. Noraini Ahmad tells her story to StarProbe Investigative team.

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.

Scam Busters

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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.

How to protect your children from Internet Scams

The most important thing in today’s world is to teach your children how to protect them from Internet Scams.
They may use social Web sites like YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Flickr etc normally to chat, play games and to post their photos. Unfortunately some of the information posted by kid may lead to scams.

Help your children to use the websites safely:

• Educate them about the basics of sites mainly the social networking sites.
• Tell them why they should not suggest any personal information to others.
• Guide them how to communicate with such a kind of internet strangers.
• Don’t allow your children’s to post their full names or nick names, it may attract the strangers.
• Never allow your children to meet a person in individual, whom they have communicated via online only.

Beware Of Lottery Scam Mail

UK-LOTTO HEADQUARTERS:

Custom Service

580 N.Tenth Street,

CA 85914

Arena Complex 18 Route de Rufisque,

I.P.P Award Dept,

Johallesburg,

SouthAfrica,

Ref-UK/9420x2/68

Batch-074/05/zy369

We happily announce to you the draw of the UK-LOTTO Sweepstake Lottery International programs held on 26th July 2010 in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Your email address attached to

Ticket no: 66 6654444 77

Serial no 6654/04

Lucky no: 66-76-23-123

Which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category.

You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of US$3,600,000.00(3 million six hundred thousand US dollars)

This type of scam will usually come in the form of a conventional email message. It will inform you that you won millions of dollars and congratulate you repeatedly. The catch: before you can collect your “winnings”, you must pay the “processing” fee of several thousands of dollars.

Stop! The moment the bad guys cash your money order, you lose. Once you realize you have been suckered into paying $4000 to a con man, they are long gone with your money. Do not fall for this lottery scam.

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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.