This is very interesting - an advance fee fraud scam aimed specifically at lawyers. In this twist on the classic Nigerian 419 advanced free scam, instead of the scammer being the "widow of a deposed dictator", the supposed damsel in distress is a woman whose "divorce was finalized here in Japan", and she "wants to retain your professional service."
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Articles on ScamsThis is very interesting - an advance fee fraud scam aimed specifically at lawyers. In this twist on the classic Nigerian 419 advanced free scam, instead of the scammer being the "widow of a deposed dictator", the supposed damsel in distress is a woman whose "divorce was finalized here in Japan", and she "wants to retain your professional service." There is a new Western Union money transfer scam spam making the rounds. It thanks you for "using Western Union Money Transfer", and gives you a fake confirmation receipt transaction number ("control number") - in our case the Mone Transfer Control number used was 1629752260. The spam includes an attachment that is an HTML file named something like "WU account.html" - don't open it! You can do a local job search just by searching for "jobs in my area", or search for jobs such as for all USA jobs or even international job opportunities by using one of the job search engines such as "Monster Jobs", or by frequenting job websites or job posting boards. You can use a country-specific job finder, such as Canada's HRDC Job Bank (it should really be HRSDC, as it stand for "Human Resources and Skills Development Canada"), or a system-specific job site, such as www.usajobs.gov, which lists all U.S. Federal jobs. You can even just search "I need a job" followed by your location, and come up with a job listing of job openings, complete with job descriptions, in your area. The problem is that job search websites and job listings that list jobs online can't always distinguish a great job opportunity from a scam. There are many job scams on Internet job boards, such as the Yahoo job scam and the Craigslist job scam, and specific job scams such as the home job placement scam (while it's possible to find a legitimate no fee work at home job, and other paid internet jobs, it's very hard to tell the legitimate work at home jobs from the scams). Then there are the not-quite-scam jobs, such as the so-called "Primerica job scams". So, how to tell if a job is a scam? Here's how. More than four years ago, we wrote an article about the Nigerian 419 scam and what the scammers think of their victims, in which we concluded that "just in case you weren’t sure about the seriousness of 419 scams …just in case you think that it’s just a few people, and they are going to go away, think again. These scammers are here to stay, they are serious, and their target is…you." Well, it sure hasn't gotten any better since then. And here to prove it, from his own lips, a former Nigerian 419 scammer tells all. If you have been contacted by either of London McFee Investments or Equity Transfer Management and are wondering whether it's too good to be true, or even a scam, well, read on. It may be that they were offering you a 'deal' to sell shares of stock such as General Components, or it may be that they were interested in a stock that you hold other than General Components. But in all cases, in the end, they tell you that you will need to put cash up front - usually called an "equity transfer charge" or "equity transfer fee" owing to U.S. or other stock regulations. Other players in this scam space include Asia Pacific Group and Falcon Group. Online scams are nothing new, and Craigslist (named after founder Craig Newmark, hence Craig's list) has always had its fair share. Perhaps the most insidious of the Craigslist scams are those which appear to be legitimate replies to Craigs list postings - after all, while many consumers are wary of what they read online, most can't imagine that a scammer would take the time to personally reply to them! In this particular scam, the email comes from twanachausse16@aim.com on behalf of TLP Research. There is a lot of chatter on the Internet today about the search term "Exercise Bike Clearance" and how Target has been gaming Google search results so that no matter what you search for (such as, for instance, "Exercise Bike Clearance") you will find a link to a Target page in the top of the search results, even though Target doesn't have the item for which you are searching. In fact, that's even more the rub - because these Google listings pointing and linking to Target.com are a result from Target telling you that "We could not find matches for {your search term}. Please try your search again." It's one of the newest spam tactics - spam vacation messages. Here's how it works: spammers sign up for mailing lists, never intending to read them. Instead they put themselves on permanent vacation status, create one of those infernal "I'm on vacation" messages full of their spam message, and let the vacation program do their spamming for them. If they're lucky, the mailing list is one where the vacation message goes back to the entire mailing list. So far we've seen spam vacation messages hawking mydosell.com, wholesaler-electronic.com, qigefa.com, and easevshop.com. You may be surprised - and you will certainly be relieved - to hear that the criminals behind the scam warranty phone calls - or so-called "robocalls" or "robodialing" - have actually been caught, and are being prosecuted by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). It turns out that a huge number of the calls were made by Christopher Cowart and his Transcontinental Warranty company, calling names and numbers supplied by a company called Voice Touch that is owned by James Dunne and Maureen Geisen Dunne, and using Caller I.D. spoofing technology developed by Damian Kohlfeld. A new scam going around the internet, originating from "security@paypalfraudcheck.com", tells Paypal users that their account has been limited, and to remove the limit, they must scan and email a copy of their passport or driver's license, a copy of their Paypal credit or debit card, and a copy of a recent utility bill. A new email scam floating around the Internet includes a picture of what appears to be a genuine passport in the name of the sender. The sample we have appears to be a real Algerian passport in the name of Morsli Boubakeur, which is who our email - coming from mauvai98@yahoo.fr - is allegedly from. But it's still a scam - don't be taken in. "You have received a postcard from a family member!", says the subject of one of the latest spam scams. If you receive a death threat email, you're in good company. The so-called "Hitman email" scam has made a comeback. Around since at least 2006, the content of the death threat email has evolved some, but the general gist of it remainds the same: the Hitman email claims that someone wants you dead, that the Hitman email sender has been hired to kill you, and that if you come up with a sufficient amount of money, they will spare your life. We'll bet that when you are looking for discount travel - especially discount air travel, and cheap air fares and cheap flights - that you turn to discount travel sites, such as Expedia .com, right? But while the Expedia travel site purports to offer cheap air flights - and sucks people in with the promise of cheap air plane tickets - Expedia airfare isn't always the cheapest - people just assume that Expedia flights are less expensive! Worse, Expedia flights are sometimes not authorized at all, meaning that Expedia com does not have a relationship with - let alone permission from - the airline to offer those cheap airfare tickets! Your effort to get cheap air fare could backfire, and you'll have paid more than if you'd just gone directly to the airline! Bottom line? For cheap airline flights, instead of relying solely on discount travel sites (cheap plane flights are one of the primary things for which people use sites such as Expedia travel), go directly to the airlines and ask them about their cheap flights! Service by email of a subpena does not constitute legal service, yet thousands of CEOs and upper-level executives across the United States have recently been taken in by an unwelcome email in their inbox. The email, claiming to be a Federal subpoena (or, if you're from California, "subpena") from "subpoena@uscourts.com," bears the seal of the U.S. District Court, and demands the recipient present themselves at a grand jury hearing in San Diego on May 7th. In addition the email contains a link and the instruction that the linked document should be downloaded and printed. In addition to the breed of filth known as "typo squatters" (people who register domains which are common misspellings of popular domains, and then put ads on them), and "drop squatters" (people who grab established domains the moment that the domain's registration lapses (i.e. is "dropped") - and set up shop on the domain - again, nothing but ads - to take advantage of the traffic that comes to the domain), we want to bring to your attention a particularly slimy breed that we call the "Doppelganger Squatter". If you've ever gotten an email from someone offering to pay you to put a link on your site - or even if you've just ever stumbled across a link from one site to another that is completely out of context - you've probably stumbled across one of the newer grey areas on the Internet: paying someone who couldn't care less about the quality of the content of your website to go find and spam other websites who won't care about the quality of the content of your website and convince them to link to your site. Well now, here is a new twist on the age-old scam. No deposed, dead Nigerian potentate here. Instead, a broken-Englished girl named Kim, whose father Henry died tragically and left his estate to his daughter but she can only get it when she marries. So perhaps you, dear target, are the lucky man. Email addresses implicated in this scam, so far, include liiluv2000@yahoo.com and kimluv_account@mail2world.com. People across the country are reporting telephone calls coming from the numbers (623) 238-6228 and (408) 587-2116. These calls claim that your car warranty is expiring, but they are really scam artists trying to steal your personal information and identity. So if the number appearing on your cellphone screen is either (623) 238-6228 or (408) 587-2116, don't answer it! Other numbers generating these spam identity theft calls include (202) 552-1332, (702) 520-1105, (609) 948-0971 and (562) 289-8136. The FBI is warning of an increase in what have come to be known as "vishing attacks" - where scammers call someone on the telephone, but make the call using VoIP, which not only is much more difficult to trace, but allows the scammer to spoof the phone number from which they are calling (making the number which shows up on the caller I.D. appear to be from someone else). A Gmail confirmation scam email is going around, asking you to verify your Gmail account. "Dear Account User," the request starts out - and goes on to say that you need to confirm your Gmail account, or it will be closed down. Of course, the language is wrong, and it wasn't even necessarily sent to your Gmail account, but still, people will be taken in by this scam, which asks for your account username and password, your date of birth, and your country of residence. Here's the scam reproduced in full - if you get this, don't reply! The FBI is warning of a jury duty scam, and the warning is being emailed around the United States, as the fraud continues. As the housing market worsens, foreclosures are on the rise. So it's only natural that scams promising to stop foreclosure, avoid foreclosure, or prevent foreclosure would also be on the rise. But those offers promising to stop mortgage foreclosure of your home are almost always scams. The only way to stop foreclosure sale of your home is to reach an agreement with the bank - it makes sense, because short of a court order, the only one that can stop bank foreclosure is the bank itself. If you need foreclosure assistance - if you need some stop foreclosure help - don't respond to the Internet foreclosure scams - instead, contact your lender! So you got email saying that you won a Toyota? You and thousands of others, in the latest round of the Toyota lottery scam! Here's the basic text of this spam scam - don't be taken in! By now you should now that you should never open a file which comes through in email, particularly if you are not expecting it, even if you know the sender. This certainly applies to the new rash of MP3 spam that is going around, which is actually audio stock spam for the pump and dump spammer scammers, who are pushing the publicly traded Text4Cars.com by Exit Only. A new version of the old 419 advance fee fraud scam has surfaced, this time claiming that you stand to receive a "long overdue inheritance / contract payment". There are a few feactures Of Federal government taxation in Nigeria, along with an overburdened and at times lax penal system, which collude to make Nigeria one of the ideal places to run an advanced-fee scam. In fact, the common name for these scams - 419 scams - comes directly from the Nigerian Penal Code - section 419. Documents produced by Whole Foods Market in response to a lawsuit filed by the FTC have revealed that Whole Foods CEO John Mackey routinely posted anonymously to Internet stock boards, bashing competitor and acquisition target Wild Oats by name and stock symbol. The Whole Foods FTC lawsuit was filed in an effort to stop the takeover, asserting that it would be a violation of antitrust laws. A scam hoax on Craigslist has led to a Tacoma woman, Laurie Raye, having everything stripped - even the fixtures - from one of her houses. It all started with a seemingly genuine post on the popular Craig's list site. Domain tasting may sound like a funny term, but it's no laughing matter. But exactly what is domain tasting? Sometimes called "Domain Kiting", domain tasting is when someone registers a domain name for the express purpose of testing it out during the five-day grace period to see whether it will receive enough traffic to pay for itself, usually with just the clickthrough advertising on the site itself. "Greetings from Iraq," the subject line says. Who wouldn't at least give that a glance the first time they see that in their inbox? And that's exactly what scammer "Merrill Melvin Hansley", a supposed security manager of STE,CCPLUS STORAGE SARL storage company in Iraq, is counting on. In case you are still wondering whether people actually fall for the old Nigerian 419 scam - or are wondering just who would fall for the old Nigerian 419 scam - wonder no more, and instead learn from the story of Thomas Katona, of Harrisville, Michigan. That would be Thomas Katona, the county treasurer for Alcona County, Michigan. We keep telling you that Nigerian 419 and British Lottery scams work because people actually send these scammers money. In case you didn't believe us, police in Holland have arrested a Nigerian man over the holidays who is being charged with being involved with a 419 scam, and he had cash amounting to $4,599,577 in his pocket! "Coca-Cola End Of Year Bonanza," the email subject screams. It then goes on to tell you that you have won a prize - this is the official prize notification - for the year end bonanza held by Coca-Cola in conjunction with the Netherlands American Tobacco company. In case you're in any doubt, this is a scam. During a discussion at Stanford University a few months ago, Google CEO Eric Schmidt indicated that he thinks that the "perfect economic solution" to click fraud is "to let it happen." Richard Kudlik, who went by the AOL name "Off2Hunt", got a lot of mileage out of being a Federal marshal. It impressed the women no end, as evidenced by the several who dated him. Only problem is, Richard Kudlik wasn't a Federal marshal, nor was he single. Now Off2Hunt, who also used the names "DHSFireRescue", "USMarshal152" and "USMarshal67600" is more likely Off2Jail. Is it a scam? Is it spam? Is it phishing? Is it legal? Someone calling themselves Garren Fitzenreiter, using the email address admin@keithware.com, is sending people Paypal invoices out of the blue, with the subject "help me pay for my inspection sticker ticket and ill love you forever. thanks" 419 scammers are serious about their work, and they think their targets are deserving. Their theme song, "I Go Chop Your Dollars" by Osofia, says it all: "White men, I will eat your dollars." The Spanish lottery scam, also known as the "Spanish Sweepstate Lottery", "Spanish International Lottery", and even "Spanish International Program" has hit the net. Whether it's from Blanco Lopez, or someone else, it's still a scam. Chinese Troops Have Invaded Okinawa, said the headlines on the Yahoo site. Only, it wasn't really a Yahoo site, and it wasn't true. The DMA has announced that they are requiring all of their members to adopt an email authentication mechanism. According to them, "there are several interoperable, inexpensive and easy to implement solutions available on the market today." This stock chart offers stock analysis of the stock which comes recommended in spam. Are those hot stock tips really worth anything? The British Lottery International scam is one of the latest Internet scams. As the Katrina scams wind down, the British International Lottery scam is again picking up steam. If you get this email scam from British Lottery International, don't be taken in - just delete it! The Russian dating scam works like this: a Russian woman, or someone in Russia claiming to be a woman, contacts a man on one of the online dating sites, draws him into an online relationship, and then hits him up for money "for a plane ticket to come be with you." W32.Sinnaka.a is the hook which phishers are using to scare people into buying Spy Trooper, World AntiSpy, PS Guard and Raze Spyware, some of which are merely repackaged versions of other rogue spyware programs, such as SpyDemolisher, SpySheriff, and SpywareNo. They are doing it with fake Windows Security Center sites and bogus W32.Sinnaka.a virus alerts. Don't let it fool you. There are more Hurricane Katrina scam sites than legitimate Hurricane Katrina relief sites, warned the FBI today. With nearly 4,000 Hurricane Katrina relief sites online, estimates the FBI, at least sixty-percent (that's 60%, folks) of the sites are actually controlled by people ... Hurricane Katrina email hoaxes are already starting to fly, to add insult to the horrible injury already suffered by the thousands of people in Katrina's path. This first Hurricane Katrina email hoax claims that the Red Cross will donate money for each email sent. Your online resume may be ripe for a new scam by identity thieves in which they simply lift all of your personal information from your resume and assume your identity. Scammers have a new scam in which they call you up and tell you that you've missed jury duty, and boy are they ticked. You'd better verify who you are by giving them lots of personal information, because there's a warrant out for your arrest! Don't fall for it! This is pretty interesting stuff. According to Iraq Museum International, it has detected a pattern of what it calls "eBay sniping", in which bids are intentionally and artificially inflated to ensure that a legitimate bidder pays top dollar, and has managed to ... The implications are staggering. Internet security software company Sunbelt Software was investigating CoolWebSearch, a spyware package, when they noticed that stowing away in the CoolWebSearch download were two trojans, a spam zombie engine, and a keystroke logging program. It was the ... If you get email claiming to be from the Regulatory Compliance Commission, the International Compliance Commission, the International Regulatory Commission, the International Exchange Regulatory Commission, the International Shareholder Protection Division, or some similar sounding agency, offering you an investment opportunity, the best investment ... Nigeria really seems to be doing all the right things to bring under some semblence of control the flood of financial scams which originate within its borders, including the infamous "419 spam scam". Earlier this month the Nigerian courts sentenced a ... Aunty has told you about the evils of click fraud. And how Google was sued over click fraud just last month. Now comes this company, which offers to track all of the pay-per-clicks on your site, giving you a full report ... Every once in a while you have to just laugh at the 419 scammers who abound on the Internet. Scam baiting - the act of leading scammers on a wild goose chase - has been raised to a new art form with the advent of the Internet, and Internet scammers. And none more so (or more deservingly) than the so-called 419 ... Of course we all know to avoid mortage spam. But just because an Internet-based mortgage service hasn't spammed you doesn't mean that they are your best option, as the National Mortgage Complaint Center explains: (PRWEB) July 25, 2005 -- According to a just ... In what is being hailed as one of the largest spam&scam busts of the decade, and the biggest 419 bust in history, the FBI and Spanish police have collaborated to arrest three hundred and ten (that's right, 310) people in Spain, all of ... We've all seen variations on the theme. "I am Mariam Abacha, widow of the late Nigerian head of state, Gen. Sani Abacha. After the death of my husband who died mysteriously..." They always end with a plea for you to help them ... In case you had any doubts about the global nature - the complex world-wide intricacies - of phishing networks, doubt no more. Case in point: Douglas Harvard and Lee Elwood were both sentenced in England this week to several years in jail ... You may recall that earlier this year Aunty lectured you about click fraud, and even mentioned that Google was suing an outfit over their alleged click fraud. In fact, last month Aunty showed you a news release from a company which tracks ... The Federal Trade Commission has announced that it has received a restraining order against and frozen the assets of TrustSoft and their SpyKiller program, a program which, the FTC says, was nothing more than a scam. According to the FTC, users who visited the ... Protecting yourself from credit card fraud and identity theft has become even more important with the unrelenting succession of security breaches, such as last week's theft of 40 million credit card numbers. Here are seven specific things you can do now to help ... Forget Qchex and other services which let anyone register your checking account and use it. Your monies in your checking account are at risk from a scam far less complicated than even that! That's right, and your old Aunty discovered it, quite by accident. Today Aunty ... LYNNFIELD, Mass., June 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Sophos, a global leader in network security, has published a report revealing the top ten viruses and hoaxes causing problems for businesses around the world during the month of May 2005. This report, compiled by ... Do you know what a "demand draft" is? If you've ever received an electronically-generated check which had "Your depositor has authorized this payment to payee" on it, or "signature not required" in place of the signature, then you've received a demand draft, ... DALLAS, May 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Online advertisers who are concerned about click fraud have a new online clearinghouse, http://www.lostclicks.com , where they can learn more about a pending class action lawsuit against the major search engines and Internet corporations, and about recent developments in what is now ... There has been a lot about "pharming", which is another term for DNS poisoning, also known as DNS cache poisoning, in the news lately. But what exactly is DNS poisoning? Put simply, DNS cache poisoning is when a DNS server is ... Whether it's the world's largest auction house, Paypal, or the world's most believed and mourned pontiff, Pope John Paul II, spammers and scammers are not above invoking their name in an effort to relieve you of your money. Even before Pope John Paul II's ... A fake Microsoft email urges users to install the latest Windows update, and even links and takes them to a site which sure seems to be a real Microsoft website. But it isn't. And the email actually leads to the installation ... A particularly effective phishing scam has targeted Yahoo Messenger this week. The reason it is so successful is because the phishing scam involves the Yahoo Messenger user being sent an IM message which appears to come from someone on the user's ... Have you heard about Adsense "click fraud"? It's one of the latest Internet scams. Click fraud has been in the news a lot lately, and with good reason. Click fraud accounts for 10-20% of all clicks on Internet ads such ... A group calling themselves "Artists Against 419" are asking Windows users to take part in their Mugu Marauder "art" project and take down the scam sites hosted by so-called "419 scammers". The "Mugu" in "Mugu Marauder" apparently is the term which the ... From Across the Pond, courtesy of Chris Hunter over at Spamfo: Christopher Pierson, the sick man who sent a hoax mail to tsunami victim's friends and relatives, has been sentenced today to 6 months in prison. Spamfo published the article previously entitled 'Man pleads guilty ... Some of you may recall that Aunty told you about Christopher Pierson, the British man who skulked about the tsunami disaster support boards, and wrote to those who were looking for loved ones feared lost in the disaster that, indeed, their loved ones ... The newest spam scam to hit eBay users is a spam which is infected with what is known as a "keylogger". When a user opens the infected email, which then has them log into their eBay account, it can record the keystrokes ... Some people are sick. Really sick. But Christopher Pierson, of London, England really takes the cake. Pierson, a 40-year-old father of two (oh my, his poor children), was arrested and arraigned yesterday for sending spam to those known to be looking for lost loved ones, in ... Lx_CATS is a Lexmark printer file, installed by Lexmark, which spies on your printer usage and reports back to the Lexmark mother ship. Sick of spam? Phed up with phishing? Nagged out by the Nigerians? Have I got a treat for you! If you haven't been over to the Ze Frank site before, or even if you have, and if you're ready for a ... Is there anyone here who hasn't been at least a little curious at one time or another - what would happen if someone actually responded to one of the Nigerian 419 scam emails - you know, the ones where the spammer contacts you ... |
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