Puppies make most of the noise this week!
Internet Puppy Scam
Computer Crime Research Center – Ukraine
The Council of Better Business Bureaus and American Kennel Club are warning consumers about a new scam involving ‘free’ puppies being promoted on MySpace, …
Latest Internet scam concern – free puppy ads
AZ Central.com – AZ,USA
Consumer officials say the scam targets unsuspecting puppy buyers who never receive the promised puppies or recover their money. …
New Scam Targets Military Spouses
Consumer Affairs – USA
The American Red Cross says it has uncovered a scam that targets military spouses. The scammer – who sounds young and American – calls a military spouse and …
Noida land scam: Allahabad HC issues notice to UP Govt., Noida …
DailyIndia.com – Jacksonville,FL,USA
A CBI probe into the Noida land scam is being recommended to the Centre, said K Chandramauli, State Principal Secretary for Home affairs. …
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Get a 50-inch plasma-screen TV for less then $800? Nope, it’s a scam and for a change the FBI got their man!
your tax dollars actually working!
Scamdex believes that every provider of interactive services should have, front and center, a simple way to report abusers of it’s service. So, a provider of free email needs to
have an easy-to-find way to report people using it’s email for scamming or spamming. This reporting should be linked directly to a mechanism which flags the account and, if possible, immediately suspends the account until the claim has been verified.
Remember, in most cases we’re talking about ‘free’ services, with little or no verification of any of the registration data. In that environment, the strictest possible enforcement should be used.
Providers of these free services (gmail, hotmail, AOL, yahoo etc etc) almost always fail these seemingly obvious criteria and actually contribute to the deluge of spam and scams by their inaction.
In the past two days, I have used two services and got two different scam solicitations.
The owner of a truck in Omaha Nebraska was almost caught by a scam commonly used to dupe people out of thousands of dollars using the comm ads website, Craigs List (www.craigslist.org). He was trying to sell his truck on the site and was contacted by a buyer who sent him a cashiers check by UPS, The truck sold for $5000 but the check was for $10,000 and he had instructions to cash the check and wire the remaining $5,000 to another address in Billings Montana.
The victim was a retired police officer and smelled a rat. He contacted the KETV NewsWatch 7 I-Team investigation who did some investigating….Full Story.
Beware of lottery mail scam
Naples Daily News – Naples,FL,USA
If you get letter that reads your a “winner” in an international lottery, it is likely a scam. Lee County Sheriff’s Office reports several accounts of …
3 doctors charged in ‘rent-a-patient’ scam
Los Angeles Times – CA,USA
The arrests bring to 17 the number of defendants charged in the “rent-a-patient” scam operated out of Unity Outpatient Surgery Center in Buena Park. …
ACCC Alerts Students to Mail Scam
Cape May County Herald – Cape May,NJ,USA
5.16) Atlantic Cape Community College officials learned earlier this week about a possible mail scam that could affect current and former students. …
e-Gold, in Melbourne, Florida issued the following shock announcement on their website.
“On April 24, 2007, a Federal Grand Jury handed down an indictment charging e-gold Ltd., Gold & Silver Reserve, Inc., and the Directors of both companies with money laundering, operating an unlicensed money transmitter business, and conspiracies to commit both offenses.”
If half of what they claim is correct, they are being subjected to overreaching and unfair treatment by the US Justice Department. Obviously this is a legal area that challenges the most experienced legal & financial minds and breaks new ground on long-founded laws, designed to deal with bricks and mortar institutions (banks) and bricks of actual gold.
They go on to claim that their security measures are more stringent than those of banks, and that as they only ever accept bank-to-bank transfers (no cash or check operations), they cannot be accused of money laundering as no money is involved.
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