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 →
RECAP DISTRIBUTION IS A JOB SCAM
A recent Scam Tip Off Report tells me of a Logistics Position for Recap Distribution. Supposedly operating in Finland, all the money seems to flow to Russia. It’s a simple enough scam – You take a job as a ‘Receivables Clerk’. Packages arrive and you send them on to another address. Money comes in to →
Hey buddy, what password are you using?
SplashData.com recently published the following information regarding the most popular 2012 passwords on the web. The ranking was →
Scammers turning your WordPress Website into a Spam/Malware Distributor
So I get an email from Google complaining that several links from my son’s blog (which I will →
dDos attacks on Scamdex – an apology.
Running the Scamdex Website isn’t a full-time job but occasionally I fall foul of the lovable rogues who perpetrate these scams and who get upset when I tell people about their doings. For example, from mid November in 2012, I had a week of distributed denial of service (dDos) attacks which effectively made Scamdex.com stop →
Just how valuable is a Hacked PC?
The massively informative “Krebs on Security” Blog published this graphic which is a startling depiction of just how →
The [domain] names change, but the “Data Conversion Job” Scam remains the same…
“Data Conversion Job Scam”? Yes – this has been running for several months now. This is how it works: A spam email, probably coming via a job seekers website [such as Careerbuilder.com or Dice.com or Monster.com or Craigslist.com] tells the victim about a great employment opportunity he can do at home – all he has →
FTC Kills “MAKE MONEY FROM WEBSITES” Scam
An Own-Your-Own Website Business Opportunity where consumers would make money from links to major retailers was halted by →
Alleged Image Copyright Theft Scam is a Money Spinner
I got a comment recently on my blog about a scam that I was unaware of but which, after a small amount of research has made me boiling mad. First, some background The Internet is awash with images – mostly pictures of my cat, I admit, but they are everywhere – the World Wide Web →
How do they make blog spam so hard to detect?
Anyone that has visited a blog or forum will have seen those vaguely annoying one line posts that are generally bad grammer and say nothing except what a great blog it is, how they’ll be back soon and to keep up the good work, right? Well that is so-called ‘Comment Spam’ and it is the →
Don’t buy a vehicle from a “Curbstoner”
OK, so what, precisely, is a Curbstoner? Here’s some background: You know that place on your commute that always has a bunch of cars for sale? the patch of waste ground by the stoplights? That’s almost certainly a curbstone site. Curbstoners are unlicensed vehicle dealers, called as such because they tend to park a selection →
Best places in the US to get Scammed Online!
A report by Symantec (the somewhat self-interested PC Security company) has produced a report that lists the top →
Big Internet (Facebook, Google) gets serious about Email Scams.
And this time, they seem to be serious, joining together these powerhouses: * Big Internet: Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo, AOL, LinkedIn etc. * Big Money (aka financial service providers): Bank of America, Fidelity Investments and PayPal. * Big Security: Agari, Cloudmark, eCert, Return Path and the Trusted Domain Project To fight Email Scams, specifically Phishing →