Scam Of The Week: FTC Refund Phishing Phraud
Scam Of The Week: FTC Refund Phishing Phraud Warn your employees, friends and family Hi, There is a →
Voice Message Notification Email Warning Could Be Ransomware
Voice Message Notification Email Warning Could Be Ransomware Don’t play voice mail messages from suspicious sources. Xavier Mertens →
Is it Polish? No – it’s a Czech Scam!
I would say that 99% of all the scams I see are in English. A smattering of French, Russian and German, even occasionally Italian and Spanish. I have no way of identifying character-based languages (Japanese, Chinese) but I try. This is a new one for me – I first assumed it was Polish, but Google →
100 Days of Scams – Dying Woman’s Charitable Bequest
A heart-rending plea from a dying woman for you to take her life savings and distribute them (keeping 30% for yourself). Uses a valid news source to provide veracity. The scam is a simple enough Advance Fee Fraud (aka AFF or 419 scam). Before you see a cent of the $20 mission, you will have →
100 Days of Scams – Mystery Consignment Box
So, you’ve been contacted by a senior officer at JFK about an abandoned diplomatic consignment box, containing (approx) $12.5 M, which for some unknown reason has your name on it. Unlikely as that seems, they want to send the box on to you, but there’s a couple of trifling details – a ‘clearance’ fee of →
100 Days of Scams – From The White House
#100daysofscams So the White House denied all knowledge of this email – Thanks Obama! ———————————– The white house Office of the presidency Pennsylvania Avenue and 17th street, NW Washington, D.C. Debt settlement of us$10.5 million, Date: 19th February, 2016 Attention: Humble Beneficiary, I have been instructed by the White House president Barrack Obama, and the →
100 Days, 100 Scams received by Email
99.5% of the email scams we receive are in the English language. There may be a few in Chinese/Japanese that don’t get identified by us, but it’s not so easy to spot them. This one appears to be Turkish, and is presumably about getting some of AYMAN AL ZAWAHIRI’s money: Bey, bana izin ver cunku →
Data Conversion Job Scam is active again
The scam goes like this: a company contacts you about a job where you work from home, doing →
Ten Years of Scamdex!
Yes, Scamdex started ten years ago, in 2004! When I started, it was a very simple site, hand-written in Perl and was purely a database of email scams. Now it includes Scam Tip Off Reports and many more emails. I would like to thank my visitors, who mostly arrive via a search engine (mainly Google) →
Spurious Awards Scam
The “Spurious Award Scam” is a vanity-targetted scam, similar to the “Who’s Who” scam where you are to →
Five Reasons Why Nigeria is the Scamsters’ Safe Haven
You’d think that by now, everybody would know better than to fall for any of the infamous “Nigerian scams,†such as the 419 scams. (The “419†designation comes from the section of the Nigerian Criminal Code that addresses fraud.) Yet Nigerian scams are alive and well. The 419 scams come in several variations, with a →
“Nigerian Scam” is still working – Police Reports show.
I occasionally think to myself; Surely everyone’s heard of the Nigerian Scam (aka Advance Fee Fraud or 419 Scam, after the relevant section of the Nigerian Criminal Code). But, alas, people still continue to fall for these simple scams. The deal is often identical, only the names and places have changed . These places are →
WT Duck is the “Nigerian Scam”
Here’s a funny cartoon take on the “Nigerian” Scam (aka 419 scam, Advance Fee Fraud). →
New Scam Information SIte – infomercialscams.info
I would like to give a shout-out to a new site that I’ve come across – INFOMERCIALSCAMS.INFO. InfomercialScams.info →
Violet and Allen Large – Lottery Windfall Scam
I’ve seen hundreds of spam emails, for a year or more, that reference the Canadian couple, Violet and Allen Large. The Story The elderly couple, who lived in Nova Scotia, won $11.2 million in a Lotto 6/49 jackpot in July 2010. They decided, due to the fact hat they were retired and had plenty of →