Sorry, folks. Weebly did some sort of update last night, and told me to "get out" for awhile. Anyway, let's see, where to start. There's no indication anywhere that there is anyone named "Laura George" at the UN, and that's a new name I haven't seen before. The scam is an old one, however, and rather convoluted. Sometimes these say that this "UN official" has received "numerous complains" from "security officials" all over the world, including Antarctica! LOL! Sometimes they say they are "compensating" people for having been scammed, but this one only says that "fund payments have been delayed," without saying which "fund" it's talking about. This "UN official" has "directed" the Nigerian government to pay out $1.5 million to "beneficiaries" in an ATM Card, which I refer to as a "BS" Card, because that's what it is: pure 24 karat BS. Oh, and you're one of the "beneficiaries," of course! Neither the card nor the money ever exist. This entry is linked here, in the upper left hand corner, and there are a couple of good Nigerian 4-1-9 Scam videos here. Thanks to everyone for following me on Twitter @inscamerated, and I thank those for doing so last night! It's appreciated! Be vigilant everyone, and Don't Get Burned!
This is getting kind of discouraging, waiting for fresh, original material. It seems that all day today I got nothing but dying and loan scams, very old stuff. I did get something new, however, and in a different language to boot. I ran this particular scam-mail through Google Translator, because I originally got it in German. So I posted it on my site that way, in the upper left hand corner, and then provided an imperfect translation below it, linked here. It claims we've "won" the European Social Fund, as if it were some kind of lottery. It isn't, but I put it in the lottery section anyway. This is how people really participate in ESF Actions, as stated on their website, at this link. Feel free to explore their site, which has something to do with the European Commission, and you can see that it has nothing to do with Euro Millions. Hey, it's tough enough keeping up with American politics LOL! Please follow me on Twitter @inscamerated. Thank You!
Okay, so Africa has more gold and diamonds than anywhere else on Earth. Big deal. This guy claims to be a "sales consultant" for Catholic Missionary Ghana Gold Dust. CMGGD might be a real seller of gold and diamonds, but it sure doesn't come up in Google, other than with other scam sites warning about it. It actually sounds reasonable; the only two things wrong with it are that I didn't ask for it, and they want us to respond to one of two free e-mail addresses. Don't fall for this crap. This entry is located here, and there are some gold related scam videos linked here. Please follow me on Twitter @inscamerated. Thank You! I thought I had another African nation to add to my list, but it turns out it wasn't so. This one claims to have come from a city called Minna, in "Niger State," so at first I believed they were talking about the African nation of Niger, which shares a border with Nigeria. This guy is just trying to cover up that it came from some other city in Nigeria other than Lagos, not that you ought to trust anything that comes from anywhere in Africa. Other than that, this is the usual 4-1-9 stuff. You are supposed to "reconfirm the following information" about yourself so that $25 million, which does not exist, of course, can be "approved" for release to you by the governor of Niger, rather than the president or the central bank governor, as they usually say. This entry is linked here, in the upper left hand corner, and there are some 4-1-9 scam videos located here. Please follow me on Twitter @inscamerated. Thank You!
Clickable Image Here's a good example of a convincing lottery scam. This one came as an attached Microsoft Office Word document, and some are PDF files. If you download attachments, be sure to scan them first on a flash drive. They usually really are just Word or PDF documents, but don't take my word for it. Be careful, and don't become infected with malware! The scammers do this so they can get a little fancier than an e-mail, and they usually don't know how to program one in HTML. In the document, they give you all kinds of official sounding numbers, and even include names, photos, and signatures of "lottery officials," which may or may not be real. These are never real either, of course, and there is never any money. If you did not go out to your local lottery outlet, and buy your own paper lottery ticket, then you did not win anything. Click Here. This entry is linked here in the upper right hand corner, and there are some YouTube lottery scam videos here. Please follow me on Twitter @inscamerated. Thank You! Ah, we have something fresh for a change, or at least this is the first I've personally seen of it. This is an interesting little scam-mail that claims to come from nacha.gov, a domain which does not exist. The actual website is at nacha.org, which really is the Electronic Payment Association. This particular spam does not come from NACHA, however. Linked here is the page that warns about this attached malware that comes in a zip file. Do not ever open these attachments! This is a piece of malware known as "Heur.Dual.Extensions@-1," and it's apparently been around for a couple years. Some of the forums claim it's a false positive when scanned, so we're not sure that anyone knows just what it does as yet. I keep telling myself that I'm going to get an older, offline junk computer to intentionally infect, just to see what stuff does, but it never happens LOL. This entry is located here in the upper right hand column, and some YouTube videos are linked here. Please follow me on Twitter @inscamerated. Thank You!
We're disappointed that these guys can't be more original, and come up with their own scams, but it appears that they just copy and paste. Sometimes they mess up on pronouns and call Jennifer "him," for example. This one's just another rehash of the old "United Nations ATM Card." We call these "BS" cards or "BS SCAM" cards, because they don't exist, and they never do. This one claims that the scammers have $5.2 million for you, and they want to send you a BS Card. If these things were really true we'd have been trillionaires by now LOL. This entry was made here in the upper right hand corner, and here are some ATM Card "Skimming" videos, which is a real problem today. Carefully examine the ATM machine you put your card into, because it could have a skimmer attached! That goes for any ATM card reader, including at the fuel pump. Watch the videos, a total of about ten minutes, and you'll see what we mean. Please follow me on Twitter @inscamerated. Thank You!
All we can say to this one is, "Wow." "Power Finance Investments Corporation" (PFIC) "specializes" in offering different kinds of loans to individuals and organizations. We can supposedly "borrow" from US$1,500 right on up to US$11.95 million. The problem? You would expect them to have a domain name, something like pfic.com, right? Well, no, they don't. They wrote to us from a free e-mail address, and they expect us to reply to a free e-mail address as well. This, of course, is an advance fee scam, similar to 4-1-9, and we wouldn't be surprised if it came from Nigeria. When you were approved for a loan at your bank last time, did they ask you for a fee? Of course not. You're either approved, or you're not, and there is no fee. These guys will ask for a fee in advance, with which they would disappear, because there is no loan. It doesn't exist, and it never does. This entry is linked here in the upper right hand corner, below "Advance Fee Fraud." There are also five different loan scam videos from YouTube linked here. The first one is an hour long, the rest are five minutes or less. Check out the Amazon books that we recommend on the left, and please follow me on Twitter @inscamerated. Thank You!
Not From: Sgt. William Moore [email protected] Do Not Reply-to: [email protected] This is a free e-mail address that nearly anyone in the world can sign up for. These scams are never from someone in any nation's military. Date: Sun, Aug 28, 2011 Dear Sir / Madam (Intended Victim), I have a good business proposal for you. There are no risks involved and it is easy. Please reply for briefs and procedures. Best regards, Sgt. Williams Moore We love these damn things. Well, sort of. Yes, U.S. troops do sometimes find money in the Middle East, and lots of it. The scammers are actually dumb enough to believe that any nations' troops would themselves be dumb enough to pull something like this. These are more or less targeted at civilian women, however, who might be tempted to send a soldier something because they're undergoing some extreme hardships. Don't ever believe these "military" scams, they're never real, and neither is the money. As always, the scammers want you to reply to a free e-mail address, and they are always trying to take your money. There are five different military scam YouTube videos linked here. Please follow me on Twitter @inscamerated. Thank You! There are some legitimate data entry and mystery shopping companies out there, but none of them will ever spam you with misleading, deceptive information. However, a lot of people are giving these two industries in particular a bad name, hoping to make a buck off of you. Data entry is supposed to be about placing ads, doing spreadsheet or database work, or perhaps preparing taxes and other documents for companies, and getting paid for it. You would typically go to work for such companies as an independent contractor, and do their work for them in your home. Transferring information from paper to computer is basically what data entry is, and it can be a good job to have. That's not what the data entry scam is. First of all, you are not going to make $750 a day right from your first day with a real online job. As in the real world, you should never pay money up front for a job, just as you would not as an independent contractor. Also, if you were not looking for such a job, then why were you spammed? Finally, if it was this easy to make lots of money fast right out of the gate, don't you think everyone would be doing it? The data entry scam is the old "stuffing envelopes" trick, where you would attempt to get people to fall for the same scam you did, trying to get them to buy the same thing you did. That's not data entry. They claim you can get relatively wealthy pretty quickly, making it appear attractive, and that's never true. As anyone who is in business for themselves on or offline knows, it takes awhile just to cover your startup costs, and then begin to earn a profit. It never works the way the scammers say it does because business never works like that. Think about it this way: If you opened a store on Main St., trying to sell products that no one could use, how long would you be in business? Not very long. You can see more "data entry" examples at this link. The current entry is in the upper right hand corner, below Web Colleagues, which we actually do recommend even though they charge a fee. There are also some YouTube videos about data entry scams 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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