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Popular Scams
These are popular scams that you need to be aware of.A Note on Western Union Fraud Warning
Nigerian Love Scammers Busted in Malaysia!
I Was Scammed: mydigitaland and isynergy
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Phishing Scam: Discover Card Scam
419 Scam: Fake Bank of America email – Updated
Lottery Scam: COCA COLA COMPANY OFFICIAL PROMOTION PRIZE AWARD
Easy Scams on Ebay You Should Know About!
Lottery Scam: RANGE ROVER AUTOMOBILE LOTTERY
Hot Scam Specifications:Scam Type: Lottery Scam (419 Scam variant)Fake Names: Mr David Correlas Lottery Name: RANGE ROVER AUTOMOBILE LOTTERY Lottery Winnings: 500,000 GBPScammer Location: United KingdomScammer Email: davidcorrelas01@live.com,...
Short review of thelotter.com
Before we discuss thelotter.com below, we would like to make the point that not all online lottery or lotto services are scams or even questionable. If you would like to play lottos online, we recommend playing at Ladbrokes. Ladbrokes recently has added online lottos...
Lottery Scam: Euro Millions Email – Lottery Award Promotional Programme
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...
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...
419 Scam: Claim your money from “DIPLOMATIC COURIER SERVICE COMPANY”
Lottery Scam: Mercedes Benz Company Promotional Draw
Latest Scam News
419 Scam: Fake Standard Chartered Bank of Ghana
Fake Name: Joy Mensah Offer Type: Money Transfer Transfer Amount: $5.5 million only Storyline: Just another fund transfer scam. Location: Claims to be Ghana Scammer Email: joy2008@saix.net This is a scam. All names and entity mentioned are fake. -----Original...
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Gold Dust Offer 2010
419 Scam: Martin Hughes of Natwest Bank Offers 32 million GBP
Healthy Lifestyles – More Soul Of Aristotle, Less Sword Of Caesar
419 Scams: Would you like $9.8million by Check or ATM Card
Is this a Scam: PartnerWithPaul.com – Partner with Paul
419 Scam: Another Widow Wants to Give YOU Money!
Job Scam: 5500 MONTHLY JOB RESPONSE FROM CRAIGSLIST
Kansas City: Real Wealth Inc Scam Busted
New York Times Fooled by Mexican Populist Demagogue
Smith White and his 480k GBP Lottery Scam
Spam, Lovely Spam, Wonderful Spam
We Can Drive Oil Prices Down Now
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What’s Important In Choosing Your Home Online Business?
When The Boss Finds Mold In The Workplace
Report on Scams targeting elderly people
419 Scam: Fake DEMONTH & ASSOCIATES rubbish
Scam Spams on the rise!
419 Scam: Fake World Economic Forum
These scammers will fake anybody. Why on earth would WEF give away free money!? This is a 419 scam. --------------------- Congratulations!!! (File No:wefd-0101) We are pleased to announce to you that the European Union,Imf,Ecb,WorldBank,Africa Union,Greek Tourist...
Take the McAfee Anti-Scam Challenge!
(Migrated from News to Blog)We are delighted to find a "Scam Recognition test" at McAfee Advisor. It is a great tool to test if you are easily fooled by phishing site, also your anti-scam knowledge. One of the important skill used is to check the URL, because that is...
Real Lottery Ticket was stolen
The Psychic Scam
The Real Hustle – Security Van Scam
US$28 million South African Scam
Warning: Do not buy Apple IPAD from unknown source with high search ranking
I paid £1800 and where is my dog?
A Pathetic Lost Soul
419 Scam: Its InterPol and not InterNpol – you crashed my spell checker!
419 scammers have an un-matchable way in creating an entirely new vocabulary. Some of these even caused my spell-checker to crash, and I would need to spend days to repair it - thanks to all the misspellings. There is no need to analyse this email... anybody can...
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