Archive for the 'Scams' Category

This article caught my eye but sort of peeved me too: All Business: Business Opportunity Fraud Flourishes In The New Year Selling the promise of riches and then profiting by selling the means to those riches is still a tried-and-true formula. Today, thousands of unscrupulous operators peddle it daily under the broad guise of a [...]

77,000 people paid $3 million to get involved assembling “refrigerator magnets” at home. They were told they could earn $800 per week in this business. To do that, of course, they’d have to assemble 20 magnets per hour for 40 hours per week for $1 per magnet. Since most of these refrigerator magnets don’t sell [...]

Russian computer programmers have come up with a chat room bot that is lifelike enough and seductive enough to get people in online dating chat rooms to reveal enough of their personal identity so that identity theft can occur. It may put the “personal” back into “personals” just so people know they’re talking to a [...]

Please beware the latest PayPal Scam. It’s almost laughable but beware anyway. If you receive such an email, forward it to spoof@paypal.com and then delete it. PayPal doesn’t need copies of this information. They verify your personal information directly with the financial institution and when you verify the amounts deposited in your checking and/or savings [...]

It’s a common check cashing scheme in the US. This made the Canadian news. It’s amazing that the woman says she knows”People I know [who] have done similar things and they’ve been credible…”  Really? That’s hard to believe! From Meadow Lake Progress Audrey East recently received a phone call she wasn’t expecting: from the Toronto [...]

Scammers are trying to use the internet in a new way to get people’s personal information. They’re leaving automated telemarketing messages to tell bank customers to visit a website that SOUNDS like a legitimate site. They usually add the word “cares” or something to the bank’s name to make is seem like a real site. [...]

It seems like we’ve seen this warning 10 million times – just this week! People wanting to work at home should be aware that there are some legitimate costs. For example: Some home based call center firms require the applicant to pay for a background check since they’ll be taking credit card information over the [...]

This $45.00 handbook tells you how to make money at home stuffing envelopes selling a $45 handbook that tells other people how to make money at home stuffing envelopes selling a $45 hanbook that….Get the picture? No real service involved.  From WINKNews.com “Angela” answered an ad in the paper for a part time job stuffing envelopes [...]

The Dot.Name domains are becoming a haven for Cyber Crooks because the people behind the registry are charging for whois access, unlike other domains which can be searched through public whois directories. From Wired The company that controls the .name registry is charging for access to domain registration information, a step that security researchers say [...]

I guess it’s not only uneducated people who get taken in by scams.  This fellow was a law student at a major Ivy League Law School! Again, the scam was posted on Craigslist! It’s worth reading the whole article. From the Washington City Paper An intriguing Craigslist job ad turned up on June 21 of [...]