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.

Beware Nigerian Scam Emails

Nigerian scam mail archives

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Password scammer

Password scammer

• At first the scammers obtain account addresses.
• Then they use computer scripts to make passwords using words commonly found in the dictionary and work with that passwords in the hope of finding one that lets them in.

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.

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.

lottery scam letter

From: NOKIA LOTTERY AWARD PROMO:
Mail id:nokia_lotteryaward@nokia.com
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS! YOU HAVE WON FROM THE NOKIA LOTTERY AWARD PROMO:
To: nokia_nokiaagency@live.com
Date: Thursday, 22 April, 2010, 11:51 AM
Ref: UK/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369

Message:
Congratulations!
We are pleased to inform you that one of the best things that can happen to any Internet user is to be rewarded for spending money and time on the Internet. You may not have known that over one hundred billion people daily surf the Internet on regular basis for one reason or other. These Internet users including yourself, pay access fees to various Internet Service Providers (ISP) all over the world who in turn remit surplus funds to the numerous World Wide Internet Technology Companies (WWITC) for the development and advancement of Global Information Technology. So much money is generated from people like you all over the World for using the Information Superhighway (the Internet) without your being aware the enormous sum that go to the stake holders (WWITC). Without your patronage, this would not have been possible. After we conducted a research on the issue, we concluded that Internet users should be compensated.

As a result, we embarked on a worldwide lottery promotion with a sophisticated automated database to randomly select E-mail accounts that frequently surf the Internet. Consequent upon this, your E-mail address was picked for Category "A" Winners.

You have won 1,350,000.00 Great British Pounds from the Nokia Lottery Award Promo.

The Promo was conducted and sponsor by Nokia Inc.

All participants were selected from World Wide Website through Microsoft computer ballot system drawn from 21,000 names and emails adresses extracted from all over the World Wide Web: Africa, America, Asia, Europe, South America and Australia, as part of the Nokia Free Lottery Award Promotion Program.

This is the first of it kind, and it is mainly to encourage the use of cell phones and internet connectivity Worldwide.

You have been approved a certified draft Cheque of 1,350GBP credited to file KTU/9023118308/03.

Your e-mail address attached to ticket number:56475600545 188 with Serial number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers:10, 26, 34, 35, 37, 40, (bonus no.01) which subsequently won you the award in the 1st category.

You are thereby advise to contact our agent to immediately commence and facilitate the release of your won prize to you.

For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claim is processed and your money remitted to you. This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program. Please be warned!!!

To claim your prize, and more information Contact our Region office:

Flat 38 Crawford point, wouldham road,
Canning Town, London
E16,1EG,
United Kingdom
Mr. Hector Mac'Nelson
Tel: +44 702 4066 749
Email: nokia_nokiaagency@live.com

Yours truly,
Dr. Desmond Dickson

Note: You are to contact your claim's agent Mr.Hector Mac' Nelson at nokia_nokiaagency@live.com
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From: Satish J
Mail id:satishj765@yahoo.in
Subject: Re: CONGRATULATIONS! YOU HAVE WON FROM THE NOKIA LOTTERY AWARD PROMO:
To: nokia_nokiaagency@live.com
Date: Thursday, 22 April, 2010, 1:06 PM
Hi Mr.Hector,
Its great to hear that I have won such a huge amount from Nokia lottery Promo but I have never heard about this promo before. How can get this money? Please help me. I am waiting for your email.

Regards,
Satish
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Hello Mr.Hector,
It has been more than 4 days but I haven't got any reply from you yet. Please help me in getting this money. I am waiting for your reply eagerly. Please acknowledge this email.
Thank you,

Regards,
Satish
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From: "NOKIA LOTTERY PROMOTION OFFICE!"
Mail id:nokia_nokiaagency@live.com
To: satishj765@yahoo.in

Congratulations!
This Office is in confirmation of the email proving you as one of the winners of the Nokia Lottery Award Promo. Your email has won £1,350,000.00 GBP, Nokia Blackberry and a Dell laptop in the ongoing NOKIA MOBILE / EMAIL PROMO conducted in London, United Kingdom, the host country.

Send us this information below to nokia_nokiaagency@live.com

INDICATE PREFERRED MODE IN WHICH YOU WISH TO RECEIVE YOUR WON PRIZE:
(A) By DIPLOMAT DELIVERY, or
(B) By BANK DRAFT TRANSFER.
Congratulations on behalf of the members and staff of NOKIA , we wish you the best of luck as you fellow the due process and spend your good fortune.

Yours faithfully,
Mr. Hector Mac'Nelson
Claim's agent
<---------------------------------->

Hi Mr.Nelson,
I have send my details below. Please send the prize money by draft so that it will be easier for me to get it. How long will it take to get this prize money? Please acknowledge this email.

Regards,
Satish.J
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From: NOKIA LOTTERY AWARD PROMO:

Mail id:nokia_lotteryaward@nokia.com

Subject: CONTACT OUR PAYING BANK FOR THE TRANSFER OF YOUR PRICE:

To: satishj765@yahoo.in

Date: Tuesday, 27 April, 2010, 2:34 PM

Dear Winner,
This office is in receipt of your mail dated 27th of April 2010. And understood that you want to receive your Prize via bank draft Wire transfer.
Congratulations once again, you have been approved of a whopping sum of 1,350.000.00GBP Certified Draft cheque, along with a Dell Laptop and Blackberry phone.
All the information regarding the release of your won prize has been forwarded to the bank.
Your certified draft Cheque and all your winning items have also been forwarded to the Bank.
You are thereby advise to forward your winning information and also your passport either your international passport or driving license to the Bank for effective transfer of your won prize.
You are to contact our paying bank for the transfer of your Draft Cheque.

CONTACT:
ACCESS BANK PLC. LONDON
1, Cornhill,
EC3V 3ND
London
United Kingdom.

Mr. Steve Brown
Manager,
Customer Care Unit.
E-mail: info@accessbnkplc.tk
customercare@accessbnkplc.tk
Endeavor to keep me posted about all your dealings with the paying bank for advice and directives.

Yours faithfully,
Mr. Hector Mac'Nelson
Claims Agent.
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Hi Mr.Nelson,
Thank you for your reply. Sure, I will definitely contact Access Bank and provide my details. Before that, May I have the photocopy of my draft and your photograph for reference? Once I get these details, I will contact Mr.Brown and provide my driving license information. I am waiting for your email. Please reply soon.
Thank you,

Regards,
Satish.J
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Dear Winner,
This is to acknowledge the receipt of your mail dated 28th April 2010. Base on your request and as your claim's agent, i have scanned your draft cheque endorsed yesterday after the clarification and verification of filled form.
Your draft cheque has been attached in this mail for your confirmation.
Contact the bank immediately for collection of your won money from Nokia Inc.

Regards,
Mr. Hector Mac'Nelson
Claims Agent.
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Hi Mr.Nelson,
Thank you very much for your prompt reply and sending the photocopy of my draft. If you don't mind, Can you send me a photograph of yours holding the draft on your hands? I can keep this as a reference before providing my driving license details.
Once I get this photograph, I will contact Access Bank for further dealings.
Thank you,

Regards,
Satish J
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Dear Winner,
I am in receipt of your mail dated 29th April 2010.
Your certified draft cheque is at the bank and not with me. Yesterday i manage to tell them to forward the scan copy to me so i can send it to you as you demanded.
You can contact the bank for any other verification. I cannot go to the bank and ask them to give me your draft to snap picture with it. That sound too absurd and unprofessional. Contact the bank regarding your cheque for it has been endorsed by your name as the beneficiary.
I do not understand why you are giving me the task of taking a shot with your draft cheque. However i advise you that it will be better you contact the bank for all query.

Regards,
Mr. Hector Mac'Nelson
Claim's agent

419-Nigerian scam

This kind of scam is well known online scam; however they are still able to trap the people and get out their hard earned money. In such type you will receive an e-mail, which will be written in capital letters. Such mails will be either representing in a good post of ministers or in business and now they are seeking your help to transfer the funds out of the country. They will ask you to travel overseas meet the concern person and get the fund amount. But before all this you are required to pay thousands of dollars in "taxes," "attorney costs," "bribes," or other advance fees. However, the presence of such person is void and there would not be any amount too other than your paid amount. This type of scam is also known as Nigerian 419 Letter, where 419 recognize for the section of Nigeria's penal code which this scammers use to violate.

Consequences of scam

scammer consequences:

• Some investors have hired private investigators in Nigeria or have personally travelled to Nigeria, without ever retrieving their money. One American was murdered in Nigeria while pursuing his lost money. In February 2003, a scam victim from the Czech Republic shot and killed an official at the Nigerian embassy.

• Victims of 419 Advance Fee Fraud have little recourse. Since 1995, the United States Secret Service has been (somewhat) involved in scambatting these schemes, however they will not investigate unless the monetary loss is in excess of 50,000 US Dollars. Very few arrests and prosecutions have been made due to the international aspect of this crime.

Features of scam

The Internet has not only brought about the development in communications and commerce and all other facts of human endeavors,but it has also provided a platform for criminals to take advantage of unsuspecting members of the public using a faster and cheaper means of communicating to the targeted victim.

Features of-scam

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419 scam

Scammers-true facts:

• scam baiters could be physically dangerous as well as dangerous to your finances.
• Victims are roughly always requested to travel to Nigeria or to the border country to total a transaction. They are often told that a visa would not be necessary to enter the country.
• 419 Nigerian scam artists could try bribing airport officials to pass the victims through Immigration and Customs. Because it is a very serious offense in Nigeria to enter without a valid visa, the victim's illegal entry might be used by the 419 Scam physimailers as leverage to coerce the victims into releasing funds. Violence and threats of cal harm might be employed for further pressure to victims.
• In June of 1995, an American was also murdered in Lagos, Nigeria, while pursuing a 419 scam, and numerous other foreign nationals have been reported as missing.

The Nigerian 419 Scam

The Nigerian Advance Fee Scam(419 scam) had been existed around for quite a while, but despite many warnings it continues to draw in many victims.


In fact, the Financial Crimes Division of the Secret Service receives about 100 telephone calls from victims/potential victims and 300-500 letter pieces of related correspondence per day about this 419 scam! Indications are that the advance fee fraud grabs hundreds of millions of dollars yearly and the losses are continuing to escalate.

In the letter, a Nigerian scam baiters claiming to be a senior civil servant would inform the recipient that he is seeking a honest foreign company into whose account he could deposit funds ranging from $10-$60 million which the Nigerian government actually overpaid on some procurement contract.

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New Type Of Nigerian Scam

Scammers recognise that their victim who has just been scammed is more likely to fall for scamming attempts than a random person. Often after a scam, the victim is contacted again by the scammer, representing himself as a law enforcement officer. The victim is informed that a group of criminals has been arrested and that they have recovered his money.

To get the money back, the victim must pay a fee for processing or insurance purposes. Even after the victim has realised that he has been scammed, this follow up scam can be successful as the scammer represents himself as a totally different party yet knows details about the transactions. The realization that he has lost a large sum of money and the chance he might get it back often leads to the victim transferring even more money to the same scammer.

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