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 you can make is in the energy…

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 Nigerian 419 scamstress to 2 1/2 year in jail,…

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 so that you have documentation of click fraud should…

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 scammers. You know the ones: “I am Mariam…

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 whom were connected with an enormous email…

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 get millions of dollars out of Nigeria, in…

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 for their part in a global phishing scam….

You may recall that earlier this year we lectured you about click fraud, and even mentioned that Google was suing an outfit over their alleged click fraud. In fact, last month we showed you a news release from a company which tracks click fraud, LostClicks.com Well now another click fraud…

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 SpyKiller website were offered a free…

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 called up her cell…

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, or “remotely created check”. If you’ve ever used…

Below you’ll find an email that was mailed to me that appears to be a con. I don’t have anything, not that I know of anyway, with Associated Card Online. Since I don’t recognize this service as being one of mine, I didn’t access the url that they provided. Could you check this out and let your readers know if this is indeed a con job. Thanks for your help.

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 made to tell your computer that a domain resides…

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 body was laid to its final…