If you received an email from "Steve Jobs Charitable Foundation", it is a scam. The email, written in poor English, asked for donation to help young webcoders. There is no such "charity".

In most cases of scam reported in this category, they normally refer to fake organisations exploiting recent disasters by asking for donation money. There is a different case in China, and some called it the 2006 Nanjing Peng Yu Case. The real story went like this:

In 2006, an old lady by the name of Mdm Xu (aged 65), fell while trying to squeeze herself through a crowd to board a public bus. She was injured with a broken hip. Peng Yu happened to be nearby and went to her aid. He helped to bring her to the hospital and even gave her a small sum of money.

Instead of thanking Peng Yu, the old lady accused Peng Yu of causing her fall and sued him in court.

If you received any email saying that you have won an iPad from a "hotmail" account, it is a scam.

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We have recently partnered up with The apple company for a one-time promotional event today, we are giving away complimentary Apple iPads to randomly selected individuals who have been fortunate to be chosen as one of our newest winners for today. We randomly selected users from our systems database and you have matched with our latest drawing.

Five men, including two from London, have been jailed for their part in a £4.5 million global premium phone line fraud.

The gang admitted conspiracy to defraud in a scam where stolen mobile phone sim cards were used to make multiple calls to premium rate phone lines outside the UK.

Mohammad Butt, 42, of Claremont Road, Forest Gate, east London, Abrar Arshad, 35, of Oastway, Rochford, Essex, and Abiola Salami, 30, of Broadway Plaza, Francis Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham, were each sentenced to three years for conspiracy to defraud mobile phone company 02.

Two other men who admitted conspiracy to defraud the company were also sentenced.

OAKLAND -- Four more people have been charged in connection to a federal visa fraud investigation of the now-closed Tri-Valley University.

On Tuesday, Vishal Dasa, Anji Reddy Dirisinala, Ramakrishna Reddy Karra and Tushar Tambe pleaded not guilty in federal court on charges of conspiracy to commit visa fraud.

The president and founder of the Pleasanton-based school, Susan Su, was indicted by a federal grand jury in April on 33 counts, including conspiracy to commit visa fraud, wire fraud, money laundering, alien harboring and making false statements. She has pleaded not guilty.

According to court documents, the four were charged with crimes related to the school, which federal investigators say was a scam to help foreign students achieve legal immigrant status in the United States by paying "tuition and fees."

Watch out for websites like this, disguised as a foreign website with no contact address. It is easy to setup a shopping cart using pirated scripts and "professional" looking graphics.

In most cases of scam reported in this category, they normally refer to fake organisations exploiting recent disasters by asking for donation money. There is a different case in China, and some called it the 2006 Nanjing Peng Yu Case. The real story went like this:

In 2006, an old lady by the name of Mdm Xu (aged 65), fell while trying to squeeze herself through a crowd to board a public bus. She was injured with a broken hip. Peng Yu happened to be nearby and went to her aid. He helped to bring her to the hospital and even gave her a small sum of money.

Instead of thanking Peng Yu, the old lady accused Peng Yu of causing her fall and sued him in court.

This report was pulled out from our quick submission comments:

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I'm reporting about linksimply . com scam

A website that claims to increase your website traffic through their various link services.
After having purchased this company's multiple services with a total value in excess of £180, I came to realize nothing was being done. After 2 weeks I got charged again for an additional £180 for a purchase I did not realized.

Needless to say that during all this time I've tried to contact this company through their contact form and no reply was given whatsoever. There is no other information regarding their headquarters address or phone number. Do not trust this company. They are scammers.

Reported:

Urgent.  People are being taken advantage of every day by a company called Century Photo Products.  I understand that they are under investigation - however, their website is still live and from what I understand they have several other names.

This job scam was reported:

Safety Inc. (Van Nuys) and Santa Clarita, I replied to a job posting on Craigslist and at first called the name/number listed. "Malorie" didn't answer by any company name, just "How can I help you?" which I found suspect.

If you have submitted scam report to us but we are slow in publishing it, then the best way is for you to submit a scam report directly by using the Comment Form below. Once approved, it will show up on the front page, on the right side as the "Recent Comment".

Please post genuine scam report. The reports are tracked by time and IP address.

There are several ways to make sure that your report are approved.

I have been chatting with a Chinese lady through the chnlove website (www.chnlove.com) and I hope to meet her on the 15th of July in Changsha. Though I have read some feedback on other websites saying that the lady I meet could be someone different from the photo. I have heard it could be a scam.
What are your views on this and are these stories true?

We received a report that this is scam.

Trust me, I've had several screaming matches with him.

Even today, knowing that he can't perform, he's still taking
calls from innocent victims and taking money in.

This guy must be stopped.  He refuses to give refunds.  He only answers
texts or phone calls when you threaten him.  Then it just turns into a
screaming match.

Subject: job scam
Question: I have got a job offer from mint hotel Manchester. They have told
me to contact the travel agent coleman.crystaltravel@gmail.com. I think its
a scam. The previous email was from albert jones 2011employeesearch.minthotel.com.

Someone asked:

Hi, Would like you to do some research on this online lottery
website by the name of Playhugelottos.com . The website appears to be
registered in Netherlands (Alarm bells!?) and the web site looks genuine,
if possible if you could please investigate this site to check if it is
legal , it would help a lot of people who use their services. Thanks

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.

"I was a victim of these guys. They took my cc information then about 5 months later they hit me for over $500 dollars for phonesexcentral advertisements. I spoke to phonesexcentral and they told me that DMB Times Inc submitted my CC there for payment for ads."

Fake Name: Mr Kojo William Wood
Offer Type: Money Transfer
Transfer Amount: $23 million USD
Storyline: 55-year old (fake) honest banker looking for an honest partner to steal dead people's money from the Ghana Commercial Bank... super moron...
Location: Claims to be Ghana, Africa
Scammer Email: smtp@gsmtuner.nl

"I am XXXXXXXX, from Indonesia. Recently I have received email from guy, with name Rocco...

Received this from a visitor and her comments are somewhere in our posts. By the way, the names used by scammers are often not their real name. Do not assume that the real person with that name is involved. As we always warn people that everything in a scam is fake including the name, you just  can't believe any piece of the story.

Fake Name: Mr Kojo William Wood
Offer Type: Money Transfer
Transfer Amount: $23 million USD
Storyline: 55-year old (fake) honest banker looking for an honest partner to steal dead people's money from the Ghana Commercial Bank... super moron...
Location: Claims to be Ghana, Africa
Scammer Email: smtp@gsmtuner.nl

Beware of this scammer using the name of "Domain Invest Inc".

"We are going to purchase your domain name.

Our company is in hosting and domain name business.

Please email us your desired price in USD or euros for the domain name in the subject line...."

Does a match-making website run online lottery? It is not mentioned anywhere on the official website, so this is a confirmed scam.

However, there is no need to check the original site most of the time, because you should Never respond to a "lottery" winnings mail coming from a free email address.

We are opening up a new article thread for visitors to submit reports for Mar 2010, as a comment to this article below.

For further information, guidelines, etc, please check out the category where this will be filed at "Submit Reports".

Note that we will no longer be accepting reports via email, except for 419 or lottery scams.

Cases that you may like to comment include questionable websites like the Pandora, gogochin cases (disappearing ecommerce websites), or any other scams that are not included in our site yet.

Hot Scam Specifications:

Scam Type: 419 Scam (Lottery Scam)
Fake Names: Mr. Paul Lambert, Angelic Van Theiry.(Mrs)
Offer Type: Lottery Winnings
Winning Amount: ONE Million Euros
Storyline: You won a lottery which you did not join
Scammer Location: Claims to be Netherlands or Belgium (?)
Scammer Email: aol.nl, winning.com (fake)

See updated 2010 version in the additional page.

In this report:

Twitter Phishing Scams - BoingBoingNet

Craigslist Rental Scam - WYSR

Twitter Phishing Scam - New Times

A scammer impersonating as a consultant working with the Swiss Bank claims that he has found $232million during one of his audit.

So he wrote,"Sometimes a person will open a bank account, deposit money, and then disappear into the tin (thin) air. Banks are not always able to find out what has become of these silent customers, or to know whether they should follow up on requests from people who claim to be heirs to the accounts..."

He is asking for "someone" to help transfer out the money "illegally". This mail is full of lies and he is not who he claims to be.

Assuming that this is real, whatever he asked you to do is illegal. So when you lose money in this scam, it is hard for you to report to the authorities/police for "being scammed while trying to help someone do something illegal."

Its like telling the police "SIR, I was trying to impersonate a Next-of-Kin/Son of some dead rich men to STEAL $232million from the bank, and I lost $25,000 of fake legal fees to this another impostor claiming to be from the bank itself....". Ouch!

Oh!? A scammer complaining about another scammer? Its tough. Don't bite the bait and become another scammer. 

This whole scam boils down to this statement:

This is absolutely rubbish. Sometimes you just wish scammers go to hell a million times. Move on unless you have interest in reading the full attachment. If you want to hear about stories about who and what gang is doing this and that, go and try other anti-scam sites. We are not interested if they missed their breakfast this morning, all we know is scammers like this are going to hell whichever group they belong to.

And what are the reasons for this "$10.7million?

Bags of balls. I can only remember that I dream of throwing a 419 scammer out of my window from my office at the 66th floor.

This is the first time we see someone setting up a "drugstore" within her space at live.com.

This article guide is updated to match our guide in the main page. We have compiled some general guidelines to counter-scams, so that we can all help to prevent scams from happening.

As the saying goes, "rules are meant to be broken". Scammers may change and modify their tactics in scams.

So bewarned.

This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of (200,000.00 GB Pounds) for the June 2009 International E-mail Draw which is Organized by Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC).

SPDC collects all the email addresses of the people that are active online, among the millions that subscribed to Yahoo, Aol, Walla, Gmail, Russian Mail and Hotmail and few from other e-mail providers. Six people are selected Monthly to benefit from this promotion and you are one of the Selected Winners.

If you are looking for love online, you may well find it. Every day, more and more people are joining the search, and thousands can now testify to happy, lasting relationships that have formed as a result. Sadly, thousands more have fallen victim to online dating scams.

Here are secrets to spotting these scams, as well as specific ways you can protect yourself.