_Here are a couple of interesting entries from the "Dept of Homeland Security" LOL. One says the New York Police Dept is holding onto a "consignment box" that's filled with U.S. dollars, and another says you have an "ATM card" that's currently in Memphis, TN. The Federal Express tracking number given by the scammer for that one is real, but the package could contain most anything that weighs less than 70 pounds. It was sent from Lagos, Nigeria earlier in 2011, and is currently on its way to Austin, TX, as of today, December 31. Don't ever fall for this stuff. There is no "consignment box," and there is no "ATM card." They just want to steal your money. These entries are both linked here, and please follow me on Twitter @inscamerated. Thank you, and a happy and prosperous 2012. Hallelujah, Brothers and Sisters! Merry Christmas, and a happy, prosperous new year! Our church is at this website, but we are using free e-mail addresses anyway! Please donate to help us build our church, and here are some testimonials to ease your suspicions! This is not a scam, oh no! God Blesses You as you head on down to Western Union with your charitable and generous contribution! Sincerely, Reverend John God'swill ROFLMFAO. This is just another scam, and it's actually the first "donation" scam that I've seen in quite awhile. Don't fall for this crap. This entry is linked here, in the upper left hand corner. Please follow me on Twitter @inscamerated. Thank You, and Happy New Year. Merry Christmas _This ATM Card scam is the usual fare, the scammer is just pretending to be someone new - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden! ROFLMFAO! This entry is linked here, in the upper left hand corner. There are three ATM "skimming" videos here. Please follow me on Twitter @inscamerated, and Merry Christmas, or Happy-Whatever-You-Celebrate, everyone. Alhaji Bako Abdullahi ICPC Chairman _As far as compensation scams go, this one is the same old song and dance, but with yet another story. This scammer just picked on someone else to impersonate, a Justice Emmanuel Ayoola, who is a former Commissioner of Nigeria's Anti-Fraud Unit, the ICPC. Its website is located here. The current acting chairman is a Mr. Alhaji Bako Abdullahi, pictured to the left, at this link. This entry is linked here, and there are a couple of fun games here. Please follow me on Twitter @inscamerated. Thank You! I haven't been doing many posts lately because well, these scams are pretty much all the same. One dying scam is just like another; it's kind of disappointing in a way. Names and diseases are switched around, the most common being strokes and cancer, with varying levels of religious overtones, and so on.
Here's an interesting little twist, though. Instead of saying you've won Shell's "lottery" which doesn't exist, we're being told that we're to be the recipient of some sort of "donation" from Shell. This, of course, does not exist either. Corporations donate money to worthy causes in the form of an advertising gimmick called philanthropy, but they don't give it away to individual people, except in the form of some small freebies every once in awhile. This could be several cents off per gallon (or liter) of fuel if you should buy some of Shell's other products, or some free soda with different manufacturers' "under-the-cap" promotions. They never give away cash, however, and that's why these are always scams. This entry is linked here, and there are some good games to play here. Please follow me on Twitter @inscamerated. Thank You! Finally! I got a "loan offer" from a Jennifer Ebele, so I asked her to provide more detail about her little scam. She actually responded, claiming to be "government accredited," and so on, "under the protection" of such-and-such a "license," which is never the case. If these scammers have two nickels to rub together, they were both stolen. This entry is located here, and there are five different loan scam videos here. Please follow me on Twitter @inscamerated. Thank You!
I had categorized European lottery scams by country, until I realized I didn't have a lot of each, so I consolidated it all into "Europe," which already had some in it. Anyway, this one appears to come from Italy, and is probably really from Nigeria. The entry will be linked in the upper right hand corner here for awhile, and a good video about foreign lottery scams is located here, from the U.S. Postal Inspection Service. They have some others as well, about different kinds of scams. Please follow me on Twitter @inscamerated. Thank You!
I think I get more of these next-of-kin scams than any other, but with this one, I Googled for Tatsuo Tanaka, and couldn't find him listed in any of the "exposing scams" sites like this one anywhere. I'm assuming this one was made up fairly recently, and figured it was time to get it indexed in the search engines. Mr. Tanaka himself, of course, knows nothing about any of this. This entry will be located here for a little while, in the upper right hand corner, along with a photo of the real Tatsuo Tanaka. Here are some next-of-kin scam vids. Please follow me on Twitter @inscamerated. Thank You!
Here's another one that's supposedly from the African EFCC, headed up by Ms. Farida Waziri. It never really is from the EFCC, of course. What's amusing about this one is the length the scammers go to, trying to convince you that they are not the scammers at all. They just hope you don't notice their free e-mail addresses. So far they've "recovered" $422 million from "the scammers," and they want to give you $8.5 million back, since they say you were scammed. This entry will be located here for awhile, in the upper right hand corner. An ABC Nigerian 419 Documentary is linked here, along with three other videos. Please follow me on Twitter @inscamerated. Thank You!
There isn't much information about this "Kenneth Danquah," not so much as a Wikipedia article, but he does appear to be a real person who is the president or leader of something in Ghana called the CUA. About half the links about him on Google are spam and scam links, so this one's been going around for at least a little while. This is the first I've seen of it. This scammer claims to be Mr. Danquah, and he wants you to help him secure some funds abroad for safekeeping. He refers to "mouth watering deals" LOL, but to a real policitian, particularly an American one, $20 million is just spit in a bucket. Oh, and the scammer makes a pretty pathetic attempt to "comply" with the 2003 CAN-Spam Act by providing PETA's unsubscribe link. This entry is linked here, and there are four different Nigerian 419 scam videos located here. Please follow me on Twitter @inscamerated. Thank You!
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AuthorMy name is Gary, and I live in the Midwestern United States. This site is intended to expose the frauds and scams that are so pervasive on the internet, especially today. One hundred per- cent of the e-mails you get that promise you millions are never, ever real. They'll tell you they're "dying," trying to gain your sympathy. They're not dying, they're lying. Click Here for the "Dying" scams. Don't fall for it, and never send them any money, no matter what they tell you. Oh, and good luck hacking this website. It's got a nice strong password on it. Archive
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