Jay HS
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Completed Review of Site Comments
- By Jay HS
- Published 06/30/2008
Finally, we have reviewed over 500 comments on this site. There were a number of spams, links to "you-know-what", but that really didn't slow things down. Thanks to the new backend interface of this s...
HotScams is Back!!!
- By Jay HS
- Published 06/17/2008
Sorry guys, I was sent to China for the past months and it has been a hectic time at work. Anyway, it's time to get back working on this site now.Are there any scams in China? Ofcourse, there are scam...
Hotscams Website Traffic Update
- By Jay HS
- Published 12/31/2007
I was browsing the web when I found this analysis of the traffic for hotscams.com. We are not quite sure if the data is accurate, but its interesting:Extracts:"This site reaches approximately 17,651...
Happy New Year! Another great year to screw the scammers!!!
- By Jay HS
- Published 12/31/2007
2007 has been a great year especially for hotscams.com, and we have screwed quite a number of scammers if not all. Oops, hopefully you were not screwed by the scammers...I have been relocated to China...
About the Affiliates and Blogging
- By Jay HS
- Published 11/21/2007
Someone mentioned about creating a blog to sell "affiliate products". We would like to clarify that we are not affiliated to the guest writers who posted articles on our site. And we do not earn any m...
Who is the real winner in a lottery scam?
- By Jay HS
- Published 11/1/2007
We have always told people that all the lottery winnings on email are scams. But have you ever wondered the people who are playing these "online lottery" or "emailed lottery programmes" for real, and ...
Heaven and Hell
- By Jay HS
- Published 10/25/2007
As we know, most mainstream religions would tell us that we go to heaven if we do good deeds, sacrifice ourselves for good purpose, etc. On the other hand, those who continue to sin in their life is d...
The Good and The Bad
- By Jay HS
- Published 10/22/2007
We had a short break and will resume the updates on our site very soon. Nevertheless, I don't think anyone who is new to the various scams would ever be scammed if similar ones come along with differe...
Scammers "Citing" HotScams.com?
- By Jay HS
- Published 09/5/2007
We received an email from uvic.ca saying that:"Phishing E-mail citing:"Thanks for "supporting" spammers, by hosting their images!!!!"http://www.hotscams.com/content_images/bankamerica.jpgThe above ima...
Never Respond to Lottery Scams
- By Jay HS
- Published 09/4/2007
We have received some emails where our visitors have responded to lottery scammers with their personal information. Please, never, ever reply to any email that claims you have won a prize. What is wor...
Updates and Stocks Market
- By Jay HS
- Published 08/24/2007
We will be resuming more site updates over the weekend due to work. It has been a great week where the stocks market "appear" to be in the process of recovering, with a total of more than 500 points g...
Why you must not reply to scammers
- By Jay HS
- Published 08/18/2007
Unless you are an experienced scambaiter, simply do not reply to any
scammers' unsolicited mails. Who knows, even a cheap 419 scam mail may
turn out to be a hacking attempt to steal your personal da...
Kind words for anti-scam effort
- By Jay HS
- Published 08/12/2007
We would like to post some kind words from visitors of our site, who have also contributed by sending us scam mails that they have received. While we try to post as many scam mails within the shortest...
Performing Routine Anti-Virus Scan
- By Jay HS
- Published 08/10/2007
Although I am usually careful with my mails, surfing habits, and installed the latest anti-virus + anti-spam + anti-phishing + anti-spyware + world class software firewall on my PC, that does not stop...
Scam report submission with virus file attachment
- By Jay HS
- Published 08/7/2007
Hello, someone forwarded several emails with attachments to us. In case if you are genuinely trying to help submit scam reports and mails, our advise is that you don't have to send these "pdf or pictu...
Anti-Scam Guide
- By Jay HS
- Published 08/4/2007
We have migrated and added a new category called the Anti-Scam Guide, which is intended to be used as a reference for some common issues related to anti-scam.These articles will be updated periodicall...
Take the McAfee Anti-Scam Challenge!
- By Jay HS
- Published 07/28/2007
(Migrated from News to Blog)We are delighted to find a "Scam Recognition test" at McAfee Advisor.
It is a great tool to test if you are easily fooled by phishing site,
also your anti-scam knowledge....
Visitors to HotScams.com
- By Jay HS
- Published 07/26/2007
We managed to get a screenshot of the visitors to our site here at hotscams.com over the past one month. Though we are considered a smaller site as compared to some of the anti-scam giants out there, ...
Adding New Scam Header
- By Jay HS
- Published 07/25/2007
We will be adding a new header, where applicable, to our new scam publishes to indicate the type of scam. This is because there are always people asking if a "mail" is a scam even after we publish the...
Latest Hot Scams
- By Jay HS
- Published 07/22/2007
We have included a new page (Latest Hot Scams) with the list of scams that are making its current round on the internet. However, specific 419 scams are not detailed but covered in the daily articles ...
Scams in a Booming Economy
- By Jay HS
- Published 07/20/2007
The world economy is currently bullish, stocks market is booming, and luxury products are getting more attention and buyers. Scams are not restricted to just those famous online 419-type of fraud. The...
Scams rising with an Aging Population
- By Jay HS
- Published 07/20/2007
There are many scam news running around, but we found this one which shares the same concern as us here.Aging population vulnerable to scams
"When parents are cheated out of their savings, burden oft...
Scams Outbreak! Don't get scammed!
- By Jay HS
- Published 07/18/2007
Some time earlier, we had written in our blog that email scamming is becoming a lucrative
crime business, and that it appears to be on the rise. 419 scams (aka Advanced Fee Scam/Fraud) is the most pr...
SOS!! I need help!!
- By Jay HS
- Published 07/10/2007
One of our readers dropped us a note:
----Quote----
Subject: pepsi company prize notification 2007
"I think I have been scammed IM WORRIED about identity
theft I RECEIVED email saying i ...
Hotscams.com and Wikipedia.org
- By Jay HS
- Published 07/10/2007
OMG! *Tears well up* We are getting famous... for spamming Wikipedia.org! We are so grateful!Thanks for publicizing! Either way, for good or bad, a URL being submitted for spamming is free publicity f...
Godaddy and Networksolutions
- By Jay HS
- Published 07/2/2007
"Customers who choose Network Solutions largely did so because
they were uninformed about the options they have available. That's
nothing new for Network Solutions. They've been taking advantage of ...
Warning about trading at ebasisbay.com
- By Jay HS
- Published 07/2/2007
We received a report about a scam concerning http://www.ebasisbay.com---------Visitor wrote:
U can check this URL --> http://www.ebasisbay.com/ListingDetails.asp?lid=7835
I've order one l...
Site Updates...
- By Jay HS
- Published 06/21/2007
Due to some other commitments, we are slowing down our postings for another week due to other works/commitments. We still have quite a number of backlogs of scam mails, but they are generally the same...
Spams in Foreign Languages
- By Jay HS
- Published 06/11/2007
We know everyone is so desperate to make money online, and one of the
bad thing that has happened to mankind is the creation of spam emails.
Such a tactic has become so widespread that foreign langu...
The Lucrative Scamming Business
- By Jay HS
- Published 06/8/2007
The updates on our site has been slower recently due to change in web hosting service.Recently, it appears that there has been an increased in scamming activities worldwide, and many has lost quite a ...
Caught with pants down!
- By Jay HS
- Published 05/29/2007
Yesterday, it was a cool evening and I was out shopping for some computer stuffs when my wife called me up on my cellphone. Well, I didn't really hear the ringing sound as I was in a crowded mall shop...
Answer to Ammar
- By Jay HS
- Published 05/24/2007
The following was the message from Mr Ammar:-----Name: AmmarSubject: inquiryQuestion/Comment: Ref: 435062725Batch: 7050470902/189Winning no: GB8101/LPRCDear,
i have received a letter tell me that I ...
About FreeLotto.com
- By Jay HS
- Published 05/24/2007
While we cannot be sure if any of these free online lottery or paid lottery agency are scams, we are pretty sure some of them are spam traps. That is to say, they will keep sending you emails after em...
Colon Collections
- By Jay HS
- Published 05/24/2007
We received a Spanish email asking about Colon Collections again. We have absolutely no information regarding that company. We can only say that if you received any offer with an email from hotmail, y...
Rogue Agents - UK
- By Jay HS
- Published 05/15/2007
This website reports scams related to buying, selling and improving a house. Based on real experiences, this site is worth a visit when you are seeking the variations of real estate scams.Visit Rouge ...
Lottery Scams multiplies
- By Jay HS
- Published 05/13/2007
As we had know, lottery scams do not just stop after the victim bite the first bait. After losing the money to the first scammer, the scams would multiply on the same victim subsequently. Owen is smar...
About the process...
- By Jay HS
- Published 05/11/2007
Kumar wrote:SIR I HAVE GOT E-MAIL WHICH ANNOUNCE MY E-MAIL ID BUT
THEY DID NOT GIVE ANY PROCESS
-----Hi there, I am not sure if you are complaining that the scammers failed to include the proc...
Paris Hilton may not serve full sentence
- By Jay HS
- Published 05/11/2007
We were suspecting the whole issue is a "celebrity scam"!Quote:"It's possible that it could be 21 days, 23 days. It's a complicated
formula that the state sets down. It's possible that she could do l...
Fame Index rises for Paris Hilton
- By Jay HS
- Published 05/7/2007
Slow publish lately probably because we are tracking this. We have already predicted in our earlier blog about the increase in fame after Paris Hilton goes into 45-days jail sentence. Whether or not s...
Paris Hilton Goes to Jail
- By Jay HS
- Published 05/6/2007
Omg! Paris Hilton was sent to jail for driving without a valid license! ---What has this got 2 do with Hot Scams!? ---Exactly, it has nothing to do with hot scams, which is why it is published in this...