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".

This is a common scam, regardless of the airport, country, location, whatever. The scammer(s) will inform you that a package containing alot of money (the bait) is waiting for your collection at the airport. You are required to reply or contact another person (custom, courier, etc) to retrieve this package (the anticipation). Then you will be asked to pay for a fee to "release" the package, normally just a few hundred bucks to couple of thousands depending on the scammer. If you bite the bait and motivated to proceed due to high expectation that this is for "real", you will end up paying the "fees" for an empty package. There is no free lunch.

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.

Watch out for a new lottery scam under this title.

"Your E-mail ID has been awarded £1,550,952.00 GBP in British Columbia
National Lottery BC-49 Mega Jackpot, On Global 2011 Promotional Draw held
In Liverpool, United Kingdom. Your BC-49 Lottery-Chip NO: IMP/73253CA/2011."

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.

Nice photos and bold words. Whatever the crap they put on the email, it is still a scam.

What kinda stupid deal is this, pay me $49 and I will give you $7,000 everyday, up to $1,5million.

The Bait: $1.5million dollars which is FAKE.

What they want is just the $49. If there are 1,000 fools on this planet, they will make $49,000 simply by sending out this stupid email.

Quote:

"After the payment of $49.00 you will start receiving your money every day $7000.00 through money gram and Western Union $7000.00 in western union office until the full payment of $1.5m is completed. So what you will be receiving per day is $14,000.00..."

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.

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."