Monthly Archives: February 2007

No Surprises there dept.

For the seventh year in a row, identity theft tops the FTC’s Annual List of Top Consumer Complaints. http://ftc.gov/opa/2007/02/topcomplaints.htm :O accounting for 36 percent of the 674,354 complaints received between January 1 and December 31, 2006. Other categories near the … Continue reading

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White Van Scam – Don’t Buy These Speakers!

This one actually happened to me. I was filling up at a gas station. A white Suburban pulled up beside me and a young guy asked if I wanted to buy some speakers – the story was something along the … Continue reading

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Richard and Judy – Cheesy Competition Scam

UK Broadcaster Channel 4 faces damaging allegations that the Richard And Judy show is systematically cheating viewers out of tens of thousands of pounds in a premium-rate phone quiz scam. The phone in number goes up and thousands of people … Continue reading

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Green Card Lottery Scam (DV-2006-2007)

Here’s the latest example of this nasty scam preying,as usual, on those members of society with probably the least to lose. The US Government, as you may not be aware, makes available 50,000 permanent resident visas annually, drawn from random … Continue reading

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Scamdex on the Beeb!

Scamdex got a mention on BBC Radio 4s new IT programme! The first episode, Staying secure in internet banking, discussed the increase in the number of customers banking online and the inevitable increase in the number of internet banking scams. … Continue reading

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