In their efforts to convince innocent recipients to part with their hard earned cash, email scammers have created seemingly endless versions of lottery, financial aid, and surprise inheritance stories. And now these… Looking for some new scam tales we present:
The Harry Potter Foundation giving away GBP 250,000 (and they are based in “Potter house”)
The Facebook Africa Jackpot [...]
On the eve of the Soccer/football World Cup 2010 in South Africa we spoke to Mr. BuyVi@ GraNow the head of the NGO “WESPAM” (Worldwide Excess Senders of Phony Applications and Mail). WESPAM claims to represent most of the evil Internet. Mr. GraNow said, “Events such as the World Cup represent a unique opportunity for [...]
Scammers aren’t above using the most trusted brands to con you out of money. This scam allows spammers to whistle while they work – all the way to the bank. This time, they are offering “free” Disneyland tickets.
The email explains that the free tickets you signed up for a few months ago were shipped to [...]
By now you know not to believe those emails promising overnight wealth with very little effort – right? Seriously.
These spam campaigns apparently still attract enough clickers. The subjects in a recent outbreak were typically bold and the emails featured short one-liners promising work-from-home riches.
The clever touch was providing a link that exploits redirect functionality supported [...]
We’re all familiar with those 419 schemes – you get an email claiming that you’ve won $2,000,000 or that someone found a bank account that belonged to your uncle’s cousin’s step-sister’s nephew’s neice and that you are listed as the beneficiary. All you have to do to claim the money is send your bank account [...]
There is no shortage of email scams out there, many of them appearing to be job offers from legitimate employment websites such as careerbuilder.com and monster.com. A UK based website www.bobbear.co.uk is striking back by publishing an updated web repository of such scams. Now anyone who wants to check if the job inquiry they got [...]
