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	<title>ScamBlog - One Mans Thoughts about Online Scams. &#187; Scam Reports</title>
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		<title>Fake &#8216;Scam&#8217; Website to Educate Consumers.</title>
		<link>http://www.scamdex.com/ScamBlog/2012/01/fake-scam-wesbite-to-educate-consumers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.scamdex.com/ScamBlog/2012/01/fake-scam-wesbite-to-educate-consumers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 19:09:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mxw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-Scam Protection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Email Scams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Identity Theft]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new initiative has been launched by the Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation (OCABR) to educate consumers about the pitfalls of internet scams. They have recently launched an educational campaign that includes a fake &#8216;scam&#8217; website. There &#8230; <a href="http://www.scamdex.com/ScamBlog/2012/01/fake-scam-wesbite-to-educate-consumers/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>IRS Lists it&#8217;s &#8216;Dirty Dozen&#8217; Tax Scams</title>
		<link>http://www.scamdex.com/ScamBlog/2011/06/irs-lists-its-dirty-dozen-tax-scams/</link>
		<comments>http://www.scamdex.com/ScamBlog/2011/06/irs-lists-its-dirty-dozen-tax-scams/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 23:43:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mxw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Identity Theft]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Job Scams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scam Reports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tax Scams]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Hiding income in offshore accounts, identity theft, return preparer fraud, and filing false or misleading tax forms top the annual list of “dirty dozen” tax scams in 2011, the Internal Revenue Service announced today. “The Dirty Dozen represents the worst &#8230; <a href="http://www.scamdex.com/ScamBlog/2011/06/irs-lists-its-dirty-dozen-tax-scams/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Spoof websites bilk Caledonia man out of $30K</title>
		<link>http://www.scamdex.com/ScamBlog/2011/05/spoof-websites-bilk-caledonia-man-out-of-30k/</link>
		<comments>http://www.scamdex.com/ScamBlog/2011/05/spoof-websites-bilk-caledonia-man-out-of-30k/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 23:58:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mxw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-Scam Protection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[banking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Classiified Ads]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Email Scams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[money laundering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scam Reports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spoof websites]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A man in Caledonia, Wisconsin thought he was buying a car from a reputable website (autotrader.com) and paying for it using a reputable financial site (amazonpayments.com). Turned out that both sites were so-called &#8216;spoof sites&#8217; &#8211; Identical copies of valid &#8230; <a href="http://www.scamdex.com/ScamBlog/2011/05/spoof-websites-bilk-caledonia-man-out-of-30k/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Online Trading &#8211; A Warning!</title>
		<link>http://www.scamdex.com/ScamBlog/2011/04/611/</link>
		<comments>http://www.scamdex.com/ScamBlog/2011/04/611/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 17:44:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mxw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-Scam Protection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[banking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Email Scams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[money laundering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ponzi Schemes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scam Reports]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Avoiding the Pitfalls of Online Trading, a guide by US-CERT Online trading can be an easy, cost-effective way to manage investments. However, online investors are often targets of scams, so take precautions to ensure that you do not become a &#8230; <a href="http://www.scamdex.com/ScamBlog/2011/04/611/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>TweekServ is a Scam Job (transaction Processing)</title>
		<link>http://www.scamdex.com/ScamBlog/2011/04/tweekserv-is-a-scam-job-transaction-processing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.scamdex.com/ScamBlog/2011/04/tweekserv-is-a-scam-job-transaction-processing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 00:15:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mxw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[banking]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[money laundering]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[TweekServ is a Scam &#8211; TweekServ is a Scam &#124; TweekServ is a Scam &#8211; TweekServ is a Scam &#124; TweekServ is a Scam &#8211; TweekServ is a Scam It&#8217;s just the usual &#8216;transaction processing&#8217; scam &#8211; you get counterfeit &#8230; <a href="http://www.scamdex.com/ScamBlog/2011/04/tweekserv-is-a-scam-job-transaction-processing/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>&#8230; and now the FTC weighs in.</title>
		<link>http://www.scamdex.com/ScamBlog/2011/03/and-now-the-ftc-weighs-in/</link>
		<comments>http://www.scamdex.com/ScamBlog/2011/03/and-now-the-ftc-weighs-in/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 23:12:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mxw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advance Fee Fraud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anti-Scam Protection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Identity Theft]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.scamdex.com/ScamBlog/?p=604</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After the IC3 list released earlier, the FTC publishes it&#8217;s own list of &#8217;Consumer Complaints&#8217; 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, &#8230; <a href="http://www.scamdex.com/ScamBlog/2011/03/and-now-the-ftc-weighs-in/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Nigerian&#8217; Scam still top online Scam, says PandaLabs</title>
		<link>http://www.scamdex.com/ScamBlog/2010/09/nigerian-scam-still-top-online-scam/</link>
		<comments>http://www.scamdex.com/ScamBlog/2010/09/nigerian-scam-still-top-online-scam/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:02:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mxw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Email Scams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scam Reports]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[scams]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[the best defense PandaLabs, Panda Security’s anti-malware laboratory has drawn up a ranking of the most widely used scams over the last few years. These confidence tricks, which are still in wide circulation, all have the same objective: to defraud &#8230; <a href="http://www.scamdex.com/ScamBlog/2010/09/nigerian-scam-still-top-online-scam/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Swoopo, BidRivals (and other Penny Auction sites) &#8211; Are they a Scam?</title>
		<link>http://www.scamdex.com/ScamBlog/2010/05/swoopo-bidrivals-are-they-a-scam/</link>
		<comments>http://www.scamdex.com/ScamBlog/2010/05/swoopo-bidrivals-are-they-a-scam/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 21:34:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mxw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ebay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lotteries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scam Reports]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.scamdex.com/ScamBlog/?p=549</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My answer is &#8216;Probably Yes&#8216;! These sites (and there are plenty of copycats) appear to operate as eBay-type auctions, but they have several important differences which people need to be aware of: The main one being, unlike eBay, when the &#8230; <a href="http://www.scamdex.com/ScamBlog/2010/05/swoopo-bidrivals-are-they-a-scam/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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