It happened after the Indian ocean tsunami and after Hurricane Katrina. It’s happening again with the earthquake in Haiti that has killed tens of thousands and left hundreds of thousands injured, homeless, hungry or without medical treatment: Scammers in Nigeria and elsewhere are stealing money meant for victims of the disaster.
If you think there [...]
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Haiti disaster attracts Nigerian scammers
January 16th, 2010 · 10 Comments
Dial +44 70 (UK number) for international online fraud
November 8th, 2009 · 55 Comments
A few years ago I created the Scam-O-Matic (www.scamomatic.com), a website that every month has helped thousands of people worldwide by automatically diagnosing online fraud emails that people have submitted to it. Scamomatic.com recognizes fake lotteries, “dead customer” scams, “dying widow” scams and many other common formats from scammers from Nigeria that you may have [...]
Tags: 419 · Fraud · scams · spam
Domain appraisal scam
July 30th, 2009 · 7 Comments
Be careful if you receive an email like the following:
We are interested to buy your domain name YOUR-DOMAIN-HERE and offer to buy it from you for 80% of the appraised market value.
As of now we accept appraisals from either one of the following leading appraisal companies:
- fleos.com
- sedo.com
If you already have an appraisal please forward [...]
“…, has added you as a friend on SiliconIndia” scam emails
June 20th, 2009 · 6 Comments
Over the past year I’ve been getting a steady trickle of “friend requests”, i.e. invitations to join a service, for a website called SiliconIndia. Virtually all the supposed senders were women from India. Job titles included Software Engineer, Business Analyst and HR Executive. Most were very pretty. By that I mean not just better than [...]
Domain registration scam in China
December 8th, 2008 · 186 Comments
Various companies in China are trying to scare domain owners in other countries into registering Chinese variants of their domain names by claiming some other party was trying to register these variants. Examples of this scam have been reported widely throughout 2008, involving the domains asiaton.cn, erimut.com, erimart.com, erimart-domains.com.cn, hknsc.hk, hongkongnet.org, hk-net.org.cn, hknetwork.hk.cn and others [...]
flapstate.com / mdanclub.com / wayizer.com
August 11th, 2008 · 46 Comments
Today I was contacted by someone about a domain flapstate.com which was still on my spam list from spam received last year. It looks like since then the domain had expired and been deleted, but then registered by a new owner for what appears to be a scam.
The same scam also uses domains
mdanclub.com
wayizer.com
wayate.com
coralnic.com
grigga.com
srcify.com
azureclub.com
flipality.com
and [...]