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 [...]
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Dial +44 70 (UK number) for international online fraud
November 8th, 2009 · 38 Comments
Tags: 419 · Fraud · scams · spam
Jim Lanton rides a Trojan horse
July 4th, 2008 · 2 Comments
A recent malware spam takes a new approach to hijacking your computer.
From: Internal Revenue Service [mailto:jim.lanton@irs.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 10:25 AM
To: User@CompanyName.com
Subject: Re: Company report for CompanyName
To : Firstname Lastname
The report is attached.
You need to complete the fields about CompanyName income.
Jim Lanton
IRS Fraud Department
© 2008 Internal Revenue Service All Rights Reserved.
At [...]
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 [...]
Tags: Fraud