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December 2006



27
DEC
2006

Guinness World wide Fundamental Draw

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Comments : 33
A new scam using the name of “Guinness” with a prize award of more than $800k. This time, they provided a new reason of how you are selected, based on your IP address(!?). How did they know an IP address based on an email address, unless they mean the whois...
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21
DEC
2006

Another dmoz complaint

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Comments : 1
As you can see, I am quite disturbed that dmoz.org is the defacto and free directory on the internet, where getting listed is a painful, or rather “one-sided process”. One-sided meaning that my submission never gets listed. I had also mentioned that I had once...
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21
DEC
2006

Scammed 37 and 38 times… omg

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Comments : 1
The other day I mentioned about the guy who was scammed 37 times, now there is another gullible guy who is slightly worse. He has 38 times and as usual, he recommends 2 (TWO) that is supposed to work. The following are some screen captures of the “I was scammed X...
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16
DEC
2006

Dubai US$17.5million Scam

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Comments : 8
The following is the full letter with header: Return-path: arif_shaikh@mail2world.comDelivery-date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 12:09:27 -0700Received: from [217.165.124.205] (helo=2mails1114.com)From: “Mr. Arif Shaikh” [arif_shaikh@mail2world.com]Reply-To:...
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11
DEC
2006

Matrix Scams on eBay

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Comments : 0
A search for “iPod” on eBay yields a couple thousand listings for the digital music player and accessories, but beware: Hundreds of the listings are inducements to join pyramid-style scams. Ebay is swamped with new “matrix”...
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07
DEC
2006

Of Ponzi and Pyramid Systems

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Comments : 0
There are many definitions on the internet regarding the various “get rich  quick” networking schemes. It can be confusing, and so it is worth the effort to define them clearly so that we know what is legal and what is not. If you would like to know the difference...
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06
DEC
2006

Cheap OEM Softwares?

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Comments : 2
We are getting these spam mails almost everyday, selling expensive so -called OEM softwares at a great discounted price. This business of piracy has basically 3 groups (in hotscams.com definition). Type 1, they are geniune OEM Softwares seller but they are selling the...
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05
DEC
2006

China Business Scams

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Comments : 31
The following is an example of a probable scenario on doing business in China (in the past).  Something like this probably happened. Employee walks in to the office of the CEO, forgetting to knock due to all the excitement. Employee:     “Mr. CEO, I just got an email from a huge...
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05
DEC
2006

Internet Explorer 7.0 Scam

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Comments : 0
Several of our 1,323,472 email addresses (setup just to perform spam+scam email mining) received an email from a scammer to download the latest Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0. The link goes to a site something like secure01xxx.com(?). We still have the email but the link has...
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05
DEC
2006

US$6.1million South African Scam

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This is a brave attempt to imitate government officials' names in a scam... the hot christmas turkey must have gone into their head and clogged those vessels. ----------Return-path: [s_u_s_a_nshabangu3@hotmail.com]Delivery-date: Sat, 02 Dec 2006 00:35:24 -0700Received:...
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