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Lottery Scam: Chevron Texaco Oil and Gas Company Lottery Promotion
Chevron Texaco Oil and Gas Company Lottery Promotion is a bloody scam. There is no such thing as a lottery won by an email address stucked in some spam database. And please don’t be an idiot to try and compare the “Serial Number and Lucky Number”. I...
The Number One Rule for a Scam or Con for a Grifter
In the first season of the BBC series Hustle, Mickey Bricks and his gang teaches us that the No. 1 Rule of a grifter, conman or scammer (whatever) is that you can’t cheat an honest man.I am not discussing this because I want to talk about the...
419 Scam: BANK OF AMERICA ONLINE ACCOUNT SETUP INSTRUCTION
This whole scam boils down to this statement: You have to send the sum of US$999.00 to activate your Bank of America Personal Residential Online Account, this payment will be credited to your Online account before we can fully remitted the amount value of...
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Request Verification: Phone Sex Scamming Company
We did a quick search and find that this report might be worth investigating. We never deal with these companies and have no business with them whatsoever. Comments are appreciated. ----- Name: James Email: dmbtimesincs@aol.com Subject: Phone Sex Scamming Company...
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One of our readers dropped us a note:----Quote----]]> Subject: pepsi company prize notification 2007 "I think I have been scammed IM WORRIED about identity theft I RECEIVED email saying i won 500,000 british pounds and i emailed some of my personal info i dont know...
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We had a short break and will resume the updates on our site very soon. Nevertheless, I don't think anyone who is new to the various scams would ever be scammed if similar ones come along with different storyline. For example, 419 scams, fake checks, lottery scams,...
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Is this a Scam: PartnerWithPaul.com
This website offers tips on how he made more than a million dollars online. – Extract 1–“Unlike other “work at home” sites that rely on bogus testimonials and fake screenshots to try to get you to buy their junk, I’ve given you...
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Lottery Scam: Fake Toyota Automobile Award 2013 London-UK
Below is the latest email received and comes with a DOC attachment with the following content.Please note that this is fake (including all names and organisations). Fortunately, there are no virus attached to the file, but nevertheless we can open it using a spare PC...
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