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New Zealand: Rise in Scams and Money Mules

  • 9-1-2007

The NZ news report a rise in scam. Although it mentioned briefly about money mules, there were no specific examples in the news. However, the news talks about scams where buyers paid more than what the seller wanted, and asking for a refund thereafter. The problem is that the payment from the buyer was cancelled, and the seller ended up paying more back the the buyer (scammer).

"If ever you receive more money than you asked for and way in excess of what the product or services are worth, this should raise your suspicions."

"Then, if a refund is to be sent to a different account – and often these accounts are in Nigeria or Indonesia – this should really raise your concerns."

Traditional 419 inheritance and lottery scams are the lesser evil compared to the above commercial scams. They are not simply scamming that one person, but they are also screwing up the entire ecommerce system and people will be more wary when the buy and sell things online.




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Do you want to know what are the hottest scams running in the UK?The campaign revealed that the top five mass-market scam mailings in the UK are; deceptive sweepstakes, misleading prize draws, fake clairvoyants or psychics, bogus foreign...

Israeli Scammer Busted

An Israeli scammer was caught by the police for cheating US$2million from Americans. Police say a well organized ring placed phone calls to predominantly elderly American citizens and falsely informed them that they had won a large cash ...

UK: 3.5 Billion GBP lost to internet scams in a year!

THREE million Brits each year fall for rip-offs like bogus sweepstakes asking for money to release non-existent “winnings”. But the watchdog estimates only five per cent of victims report their loss due to embarrassment at being stung. Assuming th...

MDCU Scam

Beware when your bank or credit company calls to ask for your personal information. It could be a scam. The best way is to contact the bank or credit company directly (using the original numbers or mail) to verify, rather than replying directly to...

Man Lost US$10,000 in Scam

Every now and then, someone is losing their money to scams.It is time to spread the word, let them know about hotscams.comPolice stated that the man sent about $12,000 to those countries and that he has yet to receive payment for his all...

Senior Citizens Scammed!

HotScams.com is back in action and strongly condemns scammers who targeted the senior folks!He has preyed on Vivian for months, dangling the promise of a huge lottery win. In recent years, he and others have stolen perhaps $125,000 from ...

Sydney: Watch out for Olympic Ticket Scam

Scores of Australians have been caught in an alleged global scam believed to have conned people worldwide into buying non-existent tickets to the Beijing Olympics, reports said Monday.The Sydney Morning Herald said one Brisbane man had spent 46,00...

Advance Fee Loan Scam - Strikes Again

This scam disappears years ago but is back. They will promise you loan despite your credit history, as long as you start sending them money first. Just like any other scam... you don't get what you want... and whatever money you sent over... you c...

Lottery Scam: Losing Money Before Winning the Lottery

There is a report of a sweepstake fraud. This old lady sent money to "buy" the sweepstakes. And when the news came that she had "won" the lottery, she smell the rat. Soon, she found that she was right and she had lost a total of more than $2.600 i...

UK: Anti-Scam Campaign by Text Messages

This is nice..."The campaign saw 25,000 mobile phone users aged between 18 and 24 receive a message telling them they might have won £1,000 in cash. But a second message arrived soon after informing them that the message was a fake and...

The Striving Internet Puppy Scams

The news at Jacksonville reported several cases of puppy scams. As expected, most of the scammers involved in the scams are overseas, which makes tracking difficult. "Sisneros contacted the seller who claimed he was a missionary in Africa try...

India: Kidney Scam

A scam that is striving in India where poor people are picked from the streets with a job offer, unknowing that they have been targeted by a kidney racket. ''I was picked up at the railway station and offered a job for Rs 250 daily wage. Then...

Breakfast Cereal Scam

If you are crazy about cereal and health, this article about breakfast cereal is for you."..... experts from 5 universities reviewed the leading kid's cereals, including these reduced sugar versions, only to discover that the calorie amo...

SIM Swop Scam

We had always thought that using one-off password for banking is safe, but it appears that there is a "SIM Swop Scam" which allow scammers to hijack your cellphone number and receive the passwords via SMS. How this works is still unclear, but we b...

Australia: 65-year old lost $60,000 in Love Scam!

What you see is not always what you get when you date online. In fact, she just dated a Nigerian who cheated her retirement savings."We were supposed to be married this Christmas. He asked if I could assist him with his project and I didn't h...

Another Iraq Scams

We thought these scams were gone, but this is not true..."Now there's a new twist in the scams that collectively have bilked thousands of people of millions of dollars. Someone claiming to be a high-ranking U.S. Marine Corps officer seeks to move ...

Gift Card Scam Warning

Another seasonal scam warning. Don't contribute money to scammer's Christmas party!Carol Odell of the Bureau in Colorado Springs says thieves start by targeting gift cards displayed on store counters.  "They steal the number off the back.  They wa...

Season Scams

The Christmas is coming and expect more scams. The scammers need to make more money for their celebrations! Watch Out!!"Although holiday-themed spam is less widespread this year than expected, e-mails containing ads for gifts, stocks and Viag...

Fake Check Scams Hit Las Cruces (New Mexico)

Never trust a check in your letter... until you see the real cash."The letterhead says Citi Financial," Mary Lou Vega said. "It says "final prize notification' ... It has everything that a check should have, the security background and micro-print...

The Hay Scam

This is not a fake check scam:"U.S. hay prices are the highest since record keeping began in 1949, according to the National Agricultural Statistics Service, opening the door for scammers to try to make a quick buck. Les Wentworth is a third-...

Malaysia: Women Lost Life Savings!

A woman in her 60s was duped of her life savings of RM109,000 in a scratch-and-win scam.  The woman from Kluang was promised a car and paid the money in four instalments. Instead, she got about 13 electrical items.

Canada: Phone Survey "Scams"

We didn't know that phone surveys are that "lethal"! "According to the study, 37 per cent of Atlantic Canadians said they had received a call from someone asking them to participate in a survey, only to find out that the intent of t...

Why aren't the police online halting scams?

Maybe there are too many of them, and its difficult to track and catch the scammers since they are all over the place."The latest twist involves an e-mail, supposedly from a teachers’ credit union, warning me that the Internet is full of phis...

Have you won "another" lottery prize lately?

It does not matter how you receive this "great" news, via email or phone calls. If a man has not heard about such as scam before, he will be overwhelmed by the "great" news. Ofcourse, all of these lottery and prize are not real, and the scammers w...

Scams to get around Captcha

This articles talks about a scam that fools you into keying in the Captcha figures. "In the new scam, an icon of an alluring woman suddenly appears on a Windows computer infected by a virus. After clicking on the icon, the user sees ...

Getting sick of lottery scams?

This is what a retiree (Killian) did after losing some money to scammers. As you might know, once you bite a bait earlier, the scammers will keep coming back asking for more. What Killian did was much less "harmless" than the scam baiters at 419ea...

Jakarta: Competition Scams

Not all competition prize are fakes, but where there are real competition prize, there will also be scams to exploit the greed. This is well said: "Members of the public must realize that prize-winner announcements that demand the immediate&#...

Warning: Fake Checks and Secret Shopper Scam

This scam can be found through online survey and this is how it works:"Along with the description came a check for nearly $5,000, they were told they were secret shopping a money order service and to deposit the check in their account.“$...

US: 30 million people scammed in 2005!

A staggering figure of 30million people were scammed in 2005. On the other hand, imagine the amount of money transferred to the scammers during the year alone. Assuming that the average loss is $100 each, that would total up to $3billion lost to s...

National Theft - $432 million!

"More than $432 million was sucked from the federal treasury last year through tax scams, program cheats and theft, loss and damage to government property. Public accounts records for the last fiscal year show taxpayers were on the...

Pay Training Fees and Get Employed!?

Botswana (a country in Southern Africa) news report about job scams. The scammers would go through seemingly elaborate "screening process" where the candidate is "selected" and then directed to a training center. However, the scammers aren't prepa...

US Postal Warns Fake Check Scams

Other than the rising fake check scams in the US, they are also warning about identity theft: “To commit identity theft, what do people need? They (thieves) need your full name, your date of birth and your Social Security number,” Boucher said. ...

Warning! Taking Loans? Watch out for 419 Scammers

A Canadian news has reported a mutation of the 419 scam. Scammers are now targeting people who are cash-strapped and needs to borrow money urgently. The scammers will act as loan providers and ask the victims to deposit 10-20% of the money that th...

Investment Scam: Development of mines

How would you like to invest some money to develop mines? Don't worry, these scams are targeted at high rollers. However, there are other cheap investment scams targeted at the working class. "Alberto DoCouto, who moved to the U.S. in 2002 after b...

28 Billion Dollars Scam Busted

If you think the millions of dollars in lottery and 419 scams is a big deal, wait till you read this news about scammers who try to cheat Bank of England using counterfeit money. "...the audacious plot involved £1,000 notes, which had not been leg...

77 arrested for fake check scam

A collaboration between US Postal Inspector and police from other countries resulted in the arrest of 77 scammers involved in fake check scams. "While 60 people were arrested in the Netherlands, 16 in Nigeria and one in Canada, victims of these s...

Scam Artist Caught on Camera

A scammer approached you with an offer to share "a lot of money" found in a lost wallet, provided that you give her some "good faith" money in return.Does this make sense? It is just like a 419 scam where "I have plenty of money to share with you"...

Singapore: US$1million Lost in Lottery Scams

Singapore reported US$1million lost in lottery scams this year.The biggest amount of fees paid in a single transaction was US$235k!"Often victims receive messages on their mobile phones, notifying them to call an overseas number to claim priz...

"Wealth Creation" Network

We received a tip-off regarding a "wealth creation" network that is expanding into Australia. Apparently, the company offers expensive membership (US$8,600) in return for "access to online networks, mentoring and coaching seminars"."Members can on...

Fake Priest Scamming a Real Priest

Fr Mendonca, a priest in Mangalore(India), was nearly scammed when a fake priest (Fr. Steeve Gollan) called to request help for an "adopted" boy who had lost his belongings when traveling to India. Apparently, the scam is about transferring of "fu...

Canada: Nigerian Scammer Busted

A Nigerian scammer was caught by the police for scamming an 84-year old man of more than $30,000. " Chaput said the scam began when the senior replied to an unsolicited e-mail that promised a share of a $1.5 million inheritance that, unknown to hi...

Financial Seminars: Sales Promotion, Not Educational

Don't get too excited if anyone invites you to attend a Financial Seminar for some educational talks. The professionals are not doing it for free, as the seminars are actually sales promotion in disguise. It is great to learn about investment oppo...

UK: Woman lost money in Lottery Scams

Like we always say, the scammers do not expect every 1000 mails sent out are successful. They just need a few victims to bite the bait and pay the price with their hard-earned cash. "A Yeovil woman has lost thousands of pounds in savings after fal...

Penny Stocks: Scammers Charged US$2.8million

Penny stocks are cheap and volatile. Perhaps they are great for intra-day or swing trading. However, they are also known to be used for scams. "According to the government, 47-year-old Michael Saquella and 63-year-old Lawrence Kaplan took the...

Fake Check and Money Order Scam for Hay Purchase

Earlier, we received forwarded mails from our visitors regarding inter-state purchase of hay. The scammers sent the fake check and money order via UPS to the hay sellers, with excess amount either for refund purpose or payment to the "delivery" gu...

The Striving Scam Business

Worcester Telegram has a news article with the title "Scam Artists Still Striving". "Everyone knows the saying: “If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.”But not enough people follow it, authorities say. ""Online lottery scams out of Cana...

New Zealand: Rise in Scams and Money Mules

The NZ news report a rise in scam. Although it mentioned briefly about money mules, there were no specific examples in the news. However, the news talks about scams where buyers paid more than what the seller wanted, and asking for a refund therea...

Greece, NY: Children used in Donation Scam

  In the town of Greece NY, a 49-year old man was charged for scamming at least 50 people in a donation scam. It was reported that Joseph Tavolino used children to help him go around and solicit scam donations for "MS Wa...

US$25million Viatical Scams

"SACRAMENTO -- A Redding man and his daughter accused of hoodwinking 500 investors of more than $25 million (in Viatical Scams) since 2001 pleaded not guilty Monday here in U.S. District Court...""...The Redding pair are among eight people indicte...

Investment Scammer gets 70 months

He deserves it.... we want more of such news!"Federal authorities announced that Audrey Aloysius was sentenced to 70 months in prison for defrauding over 20 victims of millions of dollars through a bogus investment scheme involving purpo...

Man loses $10,000 in inheritance scam

"A local man is out $10,000 after falling prey to a con man who promised him a cut of his dead uncle's will, provided the victim agreed to "loan" him the cash he needed to donate to local churches to fulfill the will's terms...But all did not go a...

Watch out for Foreclosure Scams

Whenever there is big trouble, it's business time for scammers."According to Falke, the company she contacted, Foreclosure Assistance Solutions (FAS), simply took her money and did nothing for her. And by delaying a workout with her lend...

Many internet users are Unaware of scams

More shocking numbers for those who thinks that internet scams are history. According to a Microsoft-commissioned study conducted by Harris Interactive in May 2007 based on 2,482 adults surveyed:1) 60% of internet users are unaware of intern...

China: Scammer makes US$2.6million by pretending to be a government official

We know politicians have a high pay and influence, but to impersonate a government official requires quite a lot of guts. A man by the name of Huang in China pretended that he is a senior official of the Chinese government. He even bough...

Australian held hostage in internet love scam

Still thinking that internet love affair is safe? Read this news:A 56-year old Gregor flew all the way to West Africa (possibly somewhere in Mali) to meet his lover "Natacha". Upon arrival, he was robbed and held hostage by the scammers, who deman...

Planning to catch the scammer

In another news from nwi.com, a firefighter was planning to catch the 419 scammers should they decide to "deliver" the money. We were surprised read that the police and lawyers would not handle the case. I think he means that the authorities would...

Northwest Indiana: Reports about 419 scams

The news from nwi.com briefly reported a case where a lady in South Haven managed to evade a scam by not cashing the fake check and sending her personal information over to the scammers. In another unfortunate case, a Northwest Indiana woman lost ...

Identity Theft Scams - No Big Deal?

How much can we expect to lose from identity theft? Not much, the records are probably more than US$10million only, in a single case. "A Russian con artist posing as presidential pal Charles J. Wyly Jr. ordered a new checkbook from the Texas ...

Arkansas: Woman fined $1.3m for work-at-home scams

Consumer Affairs posted a news about an Arkansas woman being fined for work-at-home scams. Pay $99 and earn $10 for every ads mailed out... wow, we can make thousands a day easily by mass mailing. This is another too-good-to-be-true scam. "Custome...

Scammers Arrested for a Scam involving US$90million Business Contract

Dutch police arrested 6 men involved in a business contract scam that promises US$90million. The Australian victim had lost US$1.5million to the scammers before finding out that it is a scam when he flew to Amsterdam. The Dutch police has also rel...

21 year old Nigerian Scammer Charged in Money Scam

This is a fake check scam and the details of the scam is summarized by the following para from the news:"In the scam, Sharifaie-Arabi allegedly sent his victims a counterfeit check he said contained extra money that they could keep if th...

Black Money Scammers Caught!

We missed out the news of 4 "black money" scammers caught by the police at Tennessee in mid-July. This is a great news that deserves a place in our archive."U.S. Secret Service agent Randy Hall said victims have been loosing hundreds of thous...

Australia: Compensation for Nigerian Scam Victims

Such a news is quite rare esp. when victims of Nigerian scams are able to recover their money. However, the compensation is likely limited to those cases where the scammers are using US accounts. The amount of US$300,000 frozen due to scam activit...

Chippewa Falls Report Fake Checks in Ecommerce

We hate checks and fake check scams are everywhere now! Jason Froehlig was sent a fake check to pay for the truck engine that he was selling online. Guess what, the buyer sent him a check of $3,500, which is for the following:$1,000 for the engine...

Scam Casualties at Los Alamos

The severity of the scam at Los Alamos(New Mexico) can be summarized by the following statement. That does not include those who did not report about the scam."Residents call or enter police headquarters almost daily to report they've been scammed...

A Greedy Nigerian Scammer is Caught

A Nigerian scammer by the name of Don Raymond Faluyi tried to scam a lady from Singapore with a fake lottery prize of 1million GBP. She paid the scammer a total of S$150k (close to US$100k, in 20 occasions) to an address in Britain. This was done ...

Man are cheaters too

Stop complaining about "ladies" in all those love scams, there is a male Casanova  who stole credit cards, checks and cars from a dozen women he met on internet dating sites. Luckily, Smith has been caught but he might not be the last one.

Billions, Not Millions, were lost in scams

There were several news sites reporting millions of dollars lost in 419 and lottery scams. Now we have a news from a consumer report saying that billions were lost to viruses, spyware and phishing scam. In fact, they estimated at US$7 billion in t...

Delhi: Alleged Millionaire Scamster In Custody

Ashok Malhotra, a millionaire and alleged kingpin of the "multi-crore land scam" was turned into police custody. We do not have any details about the "slum-land scam" yet, but we found this:"Malhotra is accused of having entered into a criminal co...

Top Selected Scam News

The Gypsy ScamWhatever you call these, Psychic, Gypsy, or someone with "extraordinary" powers. They will ask for your money to remove curses, improve your luck, find a lover, or simply fortune telling. Some of these "services" are obviously scams ...

India: Hacked Email Account Causing Distress

Following an earlier news about a hotmail account hacked by scammers, Mahendra Ved encountered a similar scam when his gmail account was hacked. The scammers were sending out distress email to his friends and relatives (including his daughter) req...

Terror Threats Hoax

There were several terror threats recently and in the latest case in Canada, authorities are offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to the hoax caller.In comparison to scams involving only money, terror hoaxes must not be condoned and m...

Protect the elderly against scams!

We found a news that is saying exactly what we have been promoting here. Screw those scammers who scammed elderly folks all their life savings. We know you might be aware of a scam when you see one. But if everyone can help to "share" their valuab...

ATM Scammer Stole $500million Without Cards

Two Armenians were accused of stealing ATM card information by replacing the actual card swipe keypad with a similar device that collects the information and pin numbers of ATM cards. This is a real case which is similar to the swiping demo in our...

2008 Beijing Olympics Lottery Scam

Currently the hot scams in China is a 419-type scam using the name of 2008 Beijing Olympics as disguise. The fees are relative low, but nonetheless still a 419 scam.1) Scammer called Li saying that he has won 98,000 Yuan (approx. US$12,600)...

BBB announces top 10 Hot Scams of 2007 (So far)

We could not find the announcement at BBB, but there is no harm taking a look at the top 10 scams blockbuster awarded by the Bureau at this site. We have also added a new page above called "Anti-Scam" Guide. It is meant to server as a re...

UK Car Scam Gang Busted!

The gang of 4 attempted to disguise stolen cars as new imports and was caught. Only 25 cars were recovered worth an estimated 1million GBP, while the rest had been exported to countries like India, Singapore, and UAE. The 8 buyers in UK who unknow...

Hot Scams Update

Kids in Hoax CallsSome kids in Colne (UK) finds it fun to make hoax calls to the local authorities... including the police. They are all under 10 years old, and they had made 50 hoax calls to the police. That is definitely a show of great potentia...

Quick Scams Updates

Selected scams in the newsEx-CFO Charged in Options Backdating ScamThe former chief financial officer of network security products maker SafeNet Inc. was indicted on securities fraud charges in connection with the alleged backdating of m...

One Car for Many Scams

This guy uses one car to scam many people. When the buyers try to pick up the vehicle after payment was made, John Stryker would call the police to chase them away. The payment(s) for the car are then used to pay for his home rental. It's funny ho...

Fashion Entrepreneur Sentenced to Jail

A former fashion entrepreneur who ran a Michigan boutique and once designed fur capes for celebrities was sentenced in federal court Friday to 17 1/2 years in prison for defrauding two banks of $26 million.Ilene Ruth Moses, 70, of L...

Presidents questoned on Party Funding Scam

After leaving office for just 2 months, former French President Jacques Chirac was questioned by a judge who was investigating a party funding scam during the time when Chirac was a mayor of Paris. Read more...A separate but similar case involves ...

Scam Letters Claiming to be from FBI

Some significant report of scams in the news:"The first is a letter claiming to be from the FBI, bearing the seal of the organisation and a picture of director Robert S. Mueller III. The email claims that the recipient has won money in a...

Warning! 419 Scammers Hack Email Account

419 scammers normally send unsolicited scam emails from free email accounts such as hotmail, yahoo, myway, etc. However, we came across a special case where a Nigerian scammer sends out mails from an email account belonging to a victim, to several...

419 Scammer has a Blog

Wow! Is this a joke? We are surprised to see a blog by some 419 scammers, and it seemed that they are upgrading their scam activity from email-based to website-based. www.sawcomaa.wordpress.comYou may not see the scam site after some time (it stil...

Military Spam Scam Reported!

Do you remember the movie "Three Kings" starring George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg? Three Kings is about 4 U.S. soldiers attempting to steal Kuwaiti gold bullion from Saddam Hussein's bunkers. Now we have "similar" scams reportedly from rogue GIs in I...

Scam News Update 16 Jul 07

Forex Scams"A forex scam is any trading scheme used to defraud individual traders by convincing them that they can expect to unreasonably high profit by trading in the foreign exchange market, which would be a zero-sum game were it ...

The Ultimate Wealth Package Scam

Webwire released a new article describing the Ultimate Wealth Package. The reason why it is widely advertised and marketed by many sites is because of the high, 75% commission rate for affiliates. "One of the most popular products on cl...

Mid-July Scam News Update

FTC has a list of "Dot Cons" - and we like this new term."The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) offers a list of the more frequently used “Dot Cons” on their web site. These are scams that businesses and consumers alike should be wary of to...

Scam Spams on the rise!

We are still receiving mails on egreeting cards. Some of these mails attempt to scam victims by saying that "schoolmates" or "friends" have sent them a greeting card. This is similar to those genuine egreeting cards that we have received in the pa...

E-Greeting Card Scam

We just published a note regarding the recent widespread "E-greeting card" scam. If you didn't see it, the mails could have been effectively sieved off by your mail filters (good job!). Otherwise, note that these are scams.Warning: Do not click on...

Bank Scam

Ross (pictured above) pleaded guilty to arranging to pour $4.9 million of his own and his partners' money into lucrative stock sales to which they weren't legally entitled. He did it by giving the money to depositors of the old New ...

Holiday Scams get a Beating

Following our earlier publish of the Holiday scam video at YouTube, we received a news that EC is going to put an end to such scams:"The European Commission has announced plans to tighten rules on timeshare selling and to extend them to cover...

Weekly Scams Update!

Investigation on High-Paying, Part-Time Job - 7 Jun 07- Seguin, Texas, USThe detectives are checking on an ad in the newspaper that turns out to be a "Nigerian Scam". Promises of high-paying, part-time job that earns up to US$2,700 a month. This i...

Scam News Update

Several Hot Scam News update for 2nd June 07:Ted Hubert warns about advanced fee scams:"... you should be very careful when someone from the United Kingdom offers you large amounts of money, if you become a team member. Specifically one ...

New Law is passed to internet spyware and scams

US House of Representative is issuing laws to combat the criminal use of Internet spyware, identity theft and scams aimed at stealing personal information from computer users. "Citing estimates that up to 90% of computers in the US are infected...

Microsoft gives back?

Hot News! Finally Microsoft (one of the "giants") is taking the lead to sue scammers who use their free email systems to send out mass unsolicited emails to scam others. As we all know, most of the time scammers use free email addresses from yahoo...

North Texas Crime Commission

HotScams.com applauds the effort by TX Crime Commission to combat scams. They will be organizing talks to educate the public about common scams that may come by the internet, mail, phone calls or even in person. The event called Scam Jam, to be he...

Warnings about Travel Scam

Be warned:"Travelers are too often tricked into paying exorbitant prices for "discounted" travel packages. In some cases, travelers end up paying for trips that are never even booked by the sales agent, the BBB said."There is a reason wh...

Canadian Lady Scammed

The latest news report of police warning the local ppl at Wellington (Ontario, Canada) of lottery scams on the internet.Apparently, the victim (who was a lady), wired her money over to an address in England to pay for "advanced fees". Well, she di...

35 scammers arrested in Malaysia

Hot News! 35 scammers from Africa, Indonesia and Malaysia were arrested for money scams and possessing fake dollars.Quote:"Some of the victims were sold fake vaccines for animals, while others were told they had won lottery prizes and had to pay f...

Hot Scams - 22 May 07

Selection of scam reports around the world:Queensland's plan to end Nigerian scamsZDNet.com.au, AustraliaA national event aimed at stamping out so-called Nigerian scams will be held in Queensland, Detective Inspector Brian Hay, who heads up the Qu...

News Digest

Due to busy schedule, the following is the summary of some latest news:Police  warn Big Isle residents to be wary of scams   Honolulu Advertiser - Honolulu,HI,USA The Hawaii Police Department is again reminding the public about numerous ...

Report on Scams targeting elderly people

Not to forget that many scams occur in the neighborhood (and not just emails). This news article reports scammers who targeted elderly retirees with ample financial assets.

O..OMG!! $4.5million lost to Nigerian Scams!

Hot Scam News Headline:"The 134 Queenslanders defrauded out of $4.5 million dollars by Nigerian money scams over the past eight years were hapless victims of professional con artists and not "stupid or greedy", police said today....

Recent E-mail Scam Warnings!

Read this report from Charles Bermant regarding the recent trend in email scams. According to him, the scammers are now targeting individuals (e.g. masseuse) using the "fake check scam" rather than in the usual broadcasting approach. Another 2 sca...

BBB warning about scams related to disaster

Better Business Bureau issued a warning about scams related to the natural disaster at Kansas (US), e.g. offers of repair services, donations, etc. This is a good advice from them: Never give cash to an individual and don't give any bank or credit...

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Scam report updates

Just released some more reports. Due to the loading, we have decided to release some (not all) of the recent ones and those in Apr 07. There is still a slight backlog in scam reports from the earlier dates including last year. We believe the scamm...

More scam reports

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