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Entries from June 2006

CNN reports about online scams

June 25th, 2006 · 3 Comments

A recent CNN article described various online scams, including fake lotteries and other 419 scams:
As one scam-watch site pointed out, lottery companies do not organize “promotional” lotteries, they advertise. A free “promotional” lottery that you only hear about if you win would only promote the lottery to a handful of customers. That doesn’t make any [...]

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Tags: Fraud

A strange type of spam

June 16th, 2006 · 3 Comments

On June 15 I received some unusual spam. It arrived from an IP address in Turkey (88.224.75.25) that is listed by SpamHaus.
Subject: Credit card processing courtiers
Hello,
Im Adam Aministers from credit card processing company. We can offer now good rates and bi-weekly payouts. If you are still looking for credit card processing, please contact me by [...]

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Tags: Computers · spam