Is it a scam? Is it spam? Is it phishing? Is it legal? Someone 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 overseas, and are almost certainly scams. So how…

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 catch the thiefs (for that is surely what…

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 keylogger program which took their breath away. The keystroke…