Email Scam, Fraud and Phishing Resource

Email Scam, Internet Fraud & Phishing Resource

We maintain an archive of scammers emails - broadly speaking, 99% of all email scams fall into one of four types:

Advance Fee Fraud: Payment is required to 'release' some much larger amount which is held by a third party. There is no 'millions', Mrs Abacha doesnt have the money either.
Lottery Scams: Payment is required to get your huge unsolicited lottery winnings transferred into your country/bank account. There are no 'winnings' .
Phishing: Official-looking emails from large internet banking and online services (PayPal, eBay, South Trust, US Bank etc etc) which ask you to 'confirm' some details. Always asks you to enter your credit card. The credit card details are used or sold on.
Auction Scams: Basic scams to take either your money, or your property by subverting standard auction procedures.

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Who is Maryam Abacha (aka Mariam Abacha)?

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12/6/2005 8:46:28 AM

A new employment scam site has been reported to me: http://ec-group.biz.
The site seems to have already been taken down, but it's likely that it will re-apprea under a new domain name,

... and here's some tips on how to identify these sites:

if they list a physical address and or phone number, copy and paste the address in to Scamdex or any search engine. You will probably see a match on other websites. Remember - if it's in Scamdex - t's a scam.
If contacts claiming to be from the company use email addresses that are different to the domain name, especially if they use 'free' email accounts (zzn.com, yahoo.com, gmail.com, msn.com etc etc) then you should ask yourself, why do they not use their own domain name for email?
If the domain name is not a '.COM' (or country specific; .co.uk etc.), be very suspicious. Try the domain name they use and change the ending (.biz, .net etc) to .com and see what comes up. You may be surprised to see an almost identical site. Click on the contacts link and compare.
Check out the domain name with a tool like domainwhitepages.com - look for the registration date. If it is within the last month, it's probably a scam. Call the phone number listed - if it's a fake number, so is the site.
Money laundering is internationally illegal. Even if the money is real, you are probably committing fraud and will be prosecuted. 10% of drugs money is still drugs money - you take it, you're in the drugs business.
There's no such thing as a free lunch. If it sounds too good to be true, it is.

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