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.