Archive for December 2008

HotScams Holidays

We are currently away for holidays and we will resume our hot scam business in Jan 09. Please continue to submit any comments, questions, articles, mails, complaints, etc. If you are pissed off with scammers and needed someone to listen to you cur...

Madoff Scam Claims Life

Scammers are out to make money, and they don't care how their victims are affected by the scam. Money isn't the most important thing in life. But for many people, losing money in one such as Madoff Scam can mean life or death. "A fund manager who ...

The Best List of Home Based Businesses For 2009

Searches on the internet have skyrocketed for the best list of home based businesses because of the current economy. Looking for additional income and setting up a business at home to make money online shows great foresight.

Beware when searching for a business to set up at home to make money online because there are many MLM companies currently marketing on the internet. They all sound good, but they all have one major flaw, they recruit people to sell that usually do not have any sales experience.

419 Scams: Who is the real ICPC?

Hot Scam Specifications:

Scam Type: 419 Scam
Fake Names: Mr Raymond Osazie
Offer Type: Money Transfer
Transfer Amount: To compensate for your losses in 419 scams... lmao...
Storyline: You are being contacted by this office today because your Case File (Ai) is the very first File on our Settlement Files Cabinet. From our Intelligent investigations and Probing processes we discovered that you are a victim of fraud/funds delay (i.e. you are a victim of a 419 scam)
Scammer Location: Nigeria
Scammer Email: osazie@icpc.com
Scammer Phone: (+234) 805 605 8540 

FBI contacts you about lottery winnings

This is to Officially inform you that it has come to our notice and we have thoroughly completed an Investigation with the help of our Intelligence Monitoring Network System that you legally won the sum of $800,000.00 USD from a Lottery Company outside the United States of America. During our investigation we discovered that your e-mail won the money from an Online Balloting System and we have authorized this winning to be paid to you via a Certified Cashier's Check.

Since when the "FBI" starts contacting people by email to confirm that they have won a lottery.

Only when it is a scam and the email is obviously Not from the real FBI.

YAHOO BETA /MICROSOFT INTERNATIONAL AWARD 2008

Subject: informe sobre supuesto premio de loteria
Question/Comment: primeramente mi mas cordial saludo,quisiera preguntarles
acerca de un supuesto premio ,que acabo de ganar de la loteria ,YAHOO BETA
/MICROSOFT INTERNATIONAL AWARD 2008 ,me suena a una posible estafa,me
gustaria mandarles el mensaje completo,si uds.no tienen inconveniente
diganme como puedo hacerles llegar para que me informen que tan real es.sin
otro particular y reiterandoles mi cordial saludo,y felicitaciones por su
labor me despido de uds,atte.

Responder:
Esto es una estafa. Por favor, no responda a la dirección de correo electrónico.

Lottery Scam: Christmas Powerball Dream

Hot Scam Specifications:

Scam Type: 419 Scam (Lottery Scam)
Fake Names: Mrs. Maurine Diane H
Offer Type: Lottery Winnings!
Winning Amount: £850,000,00
Storyline: We announce to you the winners of the POWER BALL Xmas/New Year MEGA JACKPOT LOTTO WINNINGS PROGRAMS held on 17th, December 2008. your personal e-mail address,attached to winning number 7 11 18 24 30  26, With serial number 647489,consequently won you £850,000.00 POUNDS in the Tenth lottery category
Scammer Location: UK
Scammer Email: Lehmann@lehmann-behrens.de, pwb_verifications@hotmail.com

Watch out for 419 Scam using fake Securital name

There appears to be a scammer using the following to receive "advance fees" via Western Union.

DR.OLIVERA ERICCSON Ph.D
DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS
SECURITAL  AGENCY ENGLAND.
WEBSITE:http://www.securital.org/ <-- Fake! He is not from Securital.Org!
TEL: +44 750 239 2127

Lottery Scam: Fidelity Foundation Donates Money to You!

Hot Scam Specifications:

Scam Type: 419 Scam (Lottery Scam)
Fake Names: Mrs Teresa Harris, Edward C.Johnson
Offer Type: Someone is donating money to You. Wow!
Winning Amount: US$ 7.5million (divided to 10 lucky recipients)
Storyline: The objective is to make a notable change in the standard of living of people all around the Universe (From America to Europe, Asia to Africa and all around).
Scammer Location: UK
Scammer Email: deliveries@streetwisecourieruk.com, mrsteharis@live.com, info2office@gmail.com, fidelity@lottery.org

Woman Lost Money in Offline Lottery Scam

Who says lottery scam only occurs online? A 68-year old woman was scammed by 2 scammers by the name of "Blanca" and "Raphael" at an East-Naples Walmart. Blanca said that she is homeless and needed a ride to a local shelter, and Raphael also appear...