Category Archives: Advance Fee Fraud

Advance fee fraud is a confidence trick in which the target is persuaded to advance relatively small sums of money in the hope of realizing a much larger gain.

‘You knew it would happen’ Dept. – Ghadaffi 419 Scam Email Arrives

It was only a matter of time – three days it took for me to see this, perhaps there were earlier versions…. Anyway, this one follows the standard set my the poor widow, Mariam Abacha, of the infamous General Sani … Continue reading

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‘Stop Art Scams’ blog

A California artist, Katie Moe, who describes herself as an ‘Artist and Anti-Scam Samurai’ has a blog devoted to informing fellow artists and other people about a common emailtype scam, the ‘Art Scam’. A spam email will ask to buy … Continue reading

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Secret Shopper Scam Described

“The Consumerist“, a website that highlights the persistent, shameless gaffes of modern consumerism – and the latest scams, rip-offs, hot deals and freebies, encourages their readers to tell them about their everyday experiences with absurdities of consumer culture – and … Continue reading

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… and now the FTC weighs in.

After the IC3 list released earlier, the FTC publishes it’s own list of ’Consumer Complaints’ for 2010 The Federal Trade Commission today released the list of top consumer complaints received by the agency in 2010. And for the 11th year in a row, … Continue reading

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Less 419 Scams while Nigerian Cable is Out?

Large parts of West Africa have communications blackouts after damage was found on the major undersea fiberoptic cable, known as SAT-3, which supplies countries such as Benin, Togo, Niger and Nigeria. The cable runs from Portugal and Spain to South … Continue reading

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Hang Seng Bank Shares the Wealth!

My new friend, Patrick – I Love this guy – he contacts me out of the blue – he’s a high-up in the Hang Seng Bank and yet he find me, despite my never (to my knowledge) having given anyone … Continue reading

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Wall Street Bail-out Scam Email Joke

As reported in the Washington Post’s “The Trail‘ section, here’s an email that’s making the rounds in Washington, and now, the rest of the world. No one is claiming authorship, but the ‘trail’ seems to start at the SEC. Enjoy! … Continue reading

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$22M in UN Bribe Money to dispose of…… (immoral) suckers wanted

  Return-path: <HarryJantaman@un.org> Delivery-date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:55:08 -0700 (envelope-from <HarryJantaman@un.org>) id 1KiEua-0001DI-Em Received: from smtp-out.orange.net (smtp59.orange.fr [80.12.242.30]) X-ME-UUID: 20080923205501279.4453E6C00180@mwinf5902.orange.net Reply-To: <”harryj@e-mile.co.uk, jan_harry”@un-aaid.org> From: “H. Jantamanta” <HarryJantaman@un.org> Subject: [Bulk?]From Harry & Partners Message-Id: <20080923205501.4453E6C00180@mwinf5902.orange.net> From: Harry Jantamanta 3 Whitehall … Continue reading

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