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 [...]
Entries from June 2006
CNN reports about online scams
June 25th, 2006 · 3 Comments
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 [...]