The UN has a habit of handing out free cash…really…trust me…

April 19th, 2009 by Shara Grifenhagen | Category: Spam Favorites | View Comments

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 [...]

UK website a repository for email job scams

November 20th, 2007 by Nikki | Category: Email Security | View Comments

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 [...]