Smooth talking scam artist by the name of Anthony Miller was caught by the police last year, and a GPS tether was attached to his ankle. A few days ago, the police lost track of him after he cut off the tether, and a warning message was issued to keep a lookout for this guy.

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.

The way the email content is planned is to exploit people who are greedy or need cash urgently.

What is more attractive than someone saying "Hey, I have an ATM or Credit Card filled with free credits or money for you".

There is no free lunch.

This is the first time we hear about this lottery scam. > From: winners@emillionaire-intl.com> Subject: E-millionaire Award Promo 2010 !!> Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:40:51 +0200> > E-millionaire Award Promo 2010> > Winning N...

A visitor asked: I've been messing with a "dating scammer" for fun due to she has requested my assistance for my home address so she can have 2 luggages of money delivered/ couriered by a Special Delivery agency. What is "she/he" trying to ac...

Scam mail from some impersonators using free email address and a 33 million dollars scam story about a dead rich men. This is a typical 419 scam. All names and organisation used in this mail are not from the originator. HUGH JONES & ASSOCIATE ...

This a fake UK Lottery Organisation scam mail. Its a joke - how and why would UK lottery be held at Bangkok-Thailand? > From: ukwins_freeticket@uklotto-org.co.uk> Subject: Your e-mail address has won you 4.6 Million USA dollars> Date: F...

Although its a lot of money, only a handful of people (investors) are likely to be affected by this phishing scam.

What might happen next are 419 scammers who might make use of similar tactics to lure commoners with stories that "they have found Bernie Madoff's money, and please pay a fee to get a share". Pay money to get money scam.

This is another case of distress scams, but was called the "Facebook scam" because the scammer hacks into a Facebook account, and uses that to send out distress signals. Distress scams could happen to any types of accounts, and in the past, we have reports of scammers hacking into Yahoo email account as well.

Cecile was nearly the victim of what All Facebook calls, The Western Union Scam, “I’ve Been Robbed! Western Union Me Money!” “You’re browsing around Facebook and suddenly one of your friends instant messages (IM) you to tell you that they’re stuck in another country, they’ve been robbed, don’t have a wallet, and need money to get out of the country. It’s a horrible situation but what are the odds that they found a computer to log on to in order to instant message you? Even worse, what are the odds that one of your friends who was traveling abroad got robbed and wasn’t able to find anybody to help them out?”

This is the new version of this scam involving fake "United Nations". > Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 02:57:59 +0000> Subject: Our Ref: WB/NF/UN/XX027> From: un@unitednations.org> To: un@unitednations.org> > > > > UNITED NATIO...