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Scam or not?
Talkback Of course you will say it is not a scam if you work for the company. There appears to be more bad reports than there are good ones. I have received an "appointment" for my wife and myself to attend a presentation tonight.
[February 8, 2006, 8:13]
Scam tricks users into 'stealing'
News That's how at least one scam artist is playing the online credit card game, MSNBC has learned. The intricate scam, which ends up at a Latvian Internet-only bank, can net the scam artist over $1,000 (£620) each time and leave the victim holding...
[January 26, 2000, 9:24]
Toxic phishers scam the unwary
News Whereas all spam is not a scam, all attempts at phishing are scams, and the potential losses to corporations and consumers alike is stunning. If you haven't already heard about phishing, then get ready.
[January 12, 2004, 14:55]
Gmail 'vulnerability' revealed as phishing scam
News Reports that a purported Gmail vulnerability was being used by unauthorised third parties to hijack domains turned out to be nothing more than a phishing scam, Google announced on Tuesday. However, after consulting those who claimed to be affected...
[November 27, 2008, 11:52]
PayPal alert! Beware the 'PaypaI' scam
News A scam artist last night created an exact replica of PayPal.com and used the fake site to attempt to pilfer user names and passwords from customers of the online payment system. But in this case, a scam artist has apparently discovered a way to...
[July 24, 2000, 10:14]
Arrest made in PairGain stock scam
News The complaint alleges Hoke used a free Web page service operated by Angelfire.com and a free e-mail service operated by Hotmail.com to create the scam. Gary Dale Hoke, 25, was arrested by the FBI at his home Wednesday in North Carolina for...
[April 16, 1999, 9:32]
Barclays scam email exploits new IE flaw
News The Barclays scam email appears to come from the bank, and directs customers to a site posing as Barclays' online banking Web site, ibank.barclays.co.uk. The scam site then asks people to enter their banking details.
[January 12, 2004, 11:40]
Yahoo! victim of Net credit card scam
News The second credit-card scam to hit the Net in as many weeks was mass E-mailed to users of the Internet on Thursday. Because the scam used an Internet service provider with which Yahoo! With spelling and grammar errors, the latest E-mail scam is...
[December 15, 1997, 12:03]
EU to launch scam crackdown
News The Office of Fair Trading (OFT), which is the UK's national consumer protection authority, welcomed the establishment of the EU scam-busting network. The European Union will officially launch a crackdown on cross-border scams, including internet...
[February 26, 2007, 15:06]
PayPal users targeted by email scam
Talkback I've already gotten such scam messages from "Pay Pal" and "Ebay" a few times. What I've done is to put in bogus info into the required fields and "0's" in the number fields and send it back. Also, I've given them comments such as "who do you think...
[October 22, 2003, 19:46]
Email scam defrauds Net users
News Fraudsters have launched an online scam designed to steal bank account information from unwitting Internet users, after promising them $200 (£137) in a fake email. This scam exploits one of many methods for transferring funds over the Internet...
[January 29, 2001, 15:39]
Scumbag Alert: Tax Return Scam
Blog As you may have read in the press, fraudsters are targeting taxpayers with scam e-mails in the run up to the 31 January deadline for Self Assessment. The most recent HMRC phishing scam tries to mimic the HMRC site, so duping you with a site that...
[March 17, 2009, 19:03]
Fraudster targets AOL users in credit card scam
News However, one AOL user who informed the ISP of the scam was not impressed with how seriously the company took his information. A fraudster intent on collecting credit card details set up a fake AOL Web site in order to gather financial details of...
[May 23, 2001, 11:30]
Coding error thwarts Paralympic phishing scam
Talkback It's a part of the scam and intentional. Are you sure it's a code error. If you don't have Microsoft Security Bulletin MS04/004 installed, the specially formed linked will load the phishers site, but the address bar will say the Paralympic site's...
[June 3, 2004, 5:15]
Sunshine Travels not a SCAM!!!
Talkback Hey you bunch of paranoid people, i work for sunshine travels and its not a scam, the holiday is infact free, the only charge is a booking and admin fee per person, which basically covers the admin charges of sunshine travel.the idea abehind the...
[January 23, 2006, 20:50]
Fraudsters jailed after $240m scam
News According to Reuters, Emmanuel Nwude was sentenced to 25 years and Nzeribe Okoli to 12 years for their part in a scam which brought down Brazilian bank Banco Noroeste. The two men agreed to forfeit assets worth $121.5m to victims of the scam.
[November 21, 2005, 16:50]
UK spammer jailed over £1.6m scam
News The jury also heard that Francis-Macrae ran the scam from his bedroom at his father's three-bedroom terraced house in St Neots, Cambridgeshire. A man described as Britain's most prolific spammer was jailed for six years on Wednesday at Peterborough...
[November 17, 2005, 9:25]
US slams door on online Green card scam
Talkback Was watching the TV and a story came on about the scam and saw the website that I though was helping me to be included in the Green Card lottery. I just found out about this by luck. Now I am trying to find the "official" Green card site or someone...
[October 20, 2003, 2:40]
Phone hacker jailed in UK's biggest phone scam
News A man was sentenced to 30 months in prison on Tuesday for the UK's largest-ever communications fraud, a scam in which he modified mobile phone SIM cards to allow users to make unlimited calls. Radomir Lukic, 41, was convicted of defrauding British...
[April 11, 2001, 8:26]
Why do you think it's a scam
Talkback You say that the holiday is a scam. Do you have any reason to believe this? We took our holiday and have since joined Club la Costa and had a series of the most wonderful holidays imaginable - all over the world!
[April 1, 2007, 13:46]
