Monthly Archives: December 2006

Merry Christmas to Barclays Customers … from the Scammer

Conmen have targeted Barclays customers over Christmas by trying to persuade them to hand over their account details.The emails carry the Barclays logo and ask customers to fill in confidential information. They even have a link to the bank’s online … Continue reading

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Inbound Call Centers

If you receive an email stating that your cell phone number will soon be released to telemarketing companies, don’t panic.Cell phone numbers won’t be released, email is a scam (WPDE-TV Myrtle Beach – Florence) … telemarketing consultant blog – http://www.topslog.com/telemarketing

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Amazon.com Spoof, Scam Website Capturing Your Information

Amazon will NEVER send emails requesting personal information. The scam is coming from France. These typical spoof websites pop up right before the holidays when people do online shopping. Do not be deceived. Email goes as follows: … b3rrybusyb1og – … Continue reading

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Another Lottery Scam!

We wish to congratulate you over your email success in our computer balloting sweepstake held on 10th December … Scientific Computer Game in which email addresses were used. … email to process the immediate payment of your prize. … In … Continue reading

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Spam Scams

Today I received an email apparently purporting to be from the “The UK. Natioal Lottery” (I think they meant “National”). However, I didn’t pick up that it was a scam immediately from the subject and name (I didn’t spot the … Continue reading

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Snakes on a Scam

I’m just going to reprint an email I sent to New Line a few days ago to explain … Ok, I’m bringing you all in one email just so I can give a quick recap of what happened. Someone must … Continue reading

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Warning : New variation of a Paypal Scam

There’s nothing new about paypal scams. You get an email in your email box and it tells you some gibberish about needing to login to your account for some bogus reason. Of course, the page you go to looks just … Continue reading

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Even more ‘Top Ten Scams of 2006′

From the good old Office of Fair Trading (OFT) in the UK this time. No ‘TOTP’ type chart rundown this time with information that everyone knows (or ought to know) already – this is a report based in real information. … Continue reading

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