Fortunately for us, about 99 percent of these scammers have the IQ of a grapefruit. You have to figure that even they can perform simple subtraction, but I guess you just never know for sure. Apparently, all of these scams are simply just cut and paste, with maybe a bit of name changing, and that's about it. How do I know? Check this out. This "Mr. Ross" claims he will send you your "ATM Card" or "Cashier's Check" for a fee of $150.99 by courier. In the real world, such charges never have any "retail price;" it is always a "delivery charge." Nevertheless, he says the "actual courier retail price" is $450.99. Do some real quick math in your head and you will come up with a difference of $300, but Mr. Ross says you get a "savings" of only $70. That's how I know, and like I said, "grapefruit" LOL. This entry is located here in the upper left hand corner, and there are some ATM card skimming videos 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!
Got another "New York Traffic Ticket" in my spambox, and I haven't been in NY in several years. It's not really a ticket, of course, it's just a scammer who wants us to open an attached piece of malware. I've downloaded it to my zip drive before, and have found that it's a trojan. It's this trojan that is supposed to be the "ticket," so that anyone who is unwary might open it. They just say to send the "ticket" with payment to some P.O. Box in "Chatham," but otherwise don't give a city, state, or zip (postal) code below. If you get this piece of spam, do not download anything! This entry is linked here, and is in the lower left hand corner. Here's a good video from a lady who covers this scam and a few others; eleven minutes. Please follow me on Twitter @inscamerated. Thank You!
For more info about powering a car with water, see the link below (Yes, you can).
With domain names about as long as you need them these days, and with most URLs even longer, short URL utilities are popping up all over the web, such as tiny.cc. Many scammers aren't very good with computers though, and about all they know how to do with them is e-mail. Not to brag, but I have an associates degree in IT, so I'm pretty comfortable with them. Some scammers are better with them than I am, however. Just like an FTP client that you can set up on your computer to transfer files with, you can also setup an HTML client to share information, rather than signing up for webhosting service. This means that once such a client is installed, people can find your machine's public content on the internet using your IP address, and scammers have taken advantage of short URLs to do just that. Fortunately, the company or person running the short URL domain can as easily disable those links as well as any other. You can see what's going on here with the scam-mail I copied and pasted to this link. When you see the fzy.co link, go ahead click on it (it's safe, otherwise the scammer wouldn't be able to steal any money for very long), and then pay attention to your address bar. It's a link which leads to 69.49.252.146. Then just don't send him any money, and close the link. 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!
If you should win a prize at Publisher's Clearing House, they will never, ever e-mail you. They will contact you by snail-mail, telephone, or in person with their Prize Patrol. Here is a good example of a PCH scam. I'm not sure exactly how this particular one would play out, as there are a few different methods the scammers use to get ahold of your money. They could charge you a fee, after which they would send you nothing, or they would send you a fake check. I can't imagine them sending a bogus check for a million bucks, though, unless it's one to "take care of taxes" or whatever. Whatever happens, they want to steal from you anyway they can. This entry is located here, in the upper right hand corner. Please follow me on Twitter @inscamerated. Thank You!
Dang, that little guy on the left is supposed to be ROFL. Oh well. Here's something new, or at least, I haven't seen it before. It's a promotion for Data Entry Bucks (DEB), which itself is a scam. This scammer, however, figured he would get clever, and use a URL shortener whose link leads back to his own computer, I'm assuming. It's something pretty close to that anyway, and the link doesn't even lead to DEB's website. If you get his spam about it, the return e-mail address isn't even valid. So what I'm thinking happened is that s/he got access to DEB's materials for nothing, and is selling them for $27 instead of $40. Either that, or the scammer will simply take your money and send you nothing, because there isn't any way to contact him or her. This entry will be located here on the right for awhile, below Web Colleagues, and there are some data entry scam videos linked here. 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!
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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
July 2012
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