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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 is a well-known and reputable...
African Love Scammers Arrested in Malaysia for Kidnapping
In a daring move, love scammers (aka romance or dating scams) lure the victim over, kidnap him and demanded ransom from the family. This real story shows the danger of online dating going beyond just risk of simply losing money – he might even lose his life if...
Fake University Degree Scam
Straits Times journalist from Singapore, Lim Yee Hung reported in a newspaper article that he received two university degrees last week. One is an associate degree in Criminal Justice and the other is a bachelor’s degree in Journalism. It took him just one week...
ATM Machine Scam
Check out this video on ATM Machine Scam. The scam is about placing a “shell” reader over the usual ATM card reader. So when a victim pushes in his card, it goes through the “shell” and before the actual reader. For more details, click on the...
Free MONEY! US$6.7million From the Central Bank of Nigeria
Return-path: [aliusman70000@hotmail.com]Delivery-date: Fri, 09 Feb 2007 08:44:03 -0600Received: from [65.54.246.226] (helo=bay0-omc3-s26.bay0.hotmail.com) (envelope-from <aliusman70000@hotmail.com>) id 1HFWyp-0008GZ-CjReceived: from hotmail.com...
Operaen – Domain Buying Scam
In the recent months, there have been several reports of domain name scam from someone called “Jon Hegglund”. In summary, they will ask you for the domain price and thereafter ask the domain name to be appraised by a domain name appraisal service of their...
South African 2010 World Cup Bid Lottery Award
Any good or bad event can be used as the background story for a scam, even when it sounds so ridiculous. The best thing is that they have used email addresses from eBay, Yahoo and webmail.co.za, my goodness. —– Attached —–Return-path:...
419 Scam: SGT Frank William needs to transfer US$15million
VERY DESPERATE NEED FOR ASSISTANCE, I HAVE SUMMED UP COURAGE TO CONTACT YOU. I AM PRESENTLY WORKING IN IRAQ WITH AN INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION THAT I WILL DISCLOSE LATER TO YOU; I FOUND YOUR CONTACT PARTICULARS IN AN ADDRESS JOURNAL. I AM SEEKING YOUR ASSISTANCE TO...
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...
Make 5000 Euro using Paypal
There is this email running around with an attachment teaching how to make money using viral marketing techniques selling nothing. It is like one of those “get rich quick”, or if they didn’t say you are going to be rich, then it is a...
Lottery Scam: The Ford Foundation Donation
Hot Scam Specifications:Scam Type: 419 Scam (Lottery Scam)Likely Fake Names: Mrs. Claudia Lauren, Offer Type: Donation by Ford Foundation (fake)Winning Amount: 500,000 GBPStoryline: These specific Donations/Grants will be awarded to 100 lucky...
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...
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,...
Transfer Euromillion winnings – free email address – ukcharity.com
Despite several warnings all over the web since last year, we still received this email forward and warning. It is found that “ukcharity.com” is a free email address. So the same caution should be applied when dealing with any emails sent from free email...
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...
Lottery Scam: One Million Chevrolet Auto Mobile Award 2013
This is a crappy email sent from fake email address “hsbc.org”, with reply to chevroletcompany427@yahoo.com.hk It is likely that the scammer is based in China or Hong Kong. On the other hand, the IP is sent from a spam server in Jordan, Middle East,...
Lottery Scam: Award Promotion programs held by SPAIN GAME BOARD
Your Message for the Award Claim of the Online-Sweepstakes Program organized in Madrid Spain is received and congratulations for being one of the lucky Beneficiary. You don’t have to purchase a ticket to enter this Online-Sweepstakes, and your email indicating...
Lottery Scam: BMW Lottery Department by bakole@resolutionpanel.org and bmwlotto@yahoo.cn
This is a scam claiming that you have won a lottery organised by “BMW Lottery Department” which is not true. All the names inside this email are fake and temporary emails have been used. According to the header, this email was sent from a spam server in...
Dating Verification Scam
We received this report about some dating verification scam. Dating scams aren’t new but we would like to highlight that scammers aren’t stupid to give you a trace to their real identity, regardless if it is a website or their facebook account. Unless the...
Lottery Scam: Western Union Public Relations
Fake Names: Dr. David MooreOffer Type: Lottery WinningsWinning Amount: $250,000 GBPStoryline: You won a lottery which you did not joinScammer Location: Claimed to be IrelandScammer Email: desmond_ani07@yahoo.co.uk, info@microsoft.com Since when it became a...Have a Scam Report?
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