Exposing Scams

SECURITY ALERT FROM AICPA….  NEW EMAIL PHISHING USING THEIR LOGO AND OTHERS……. Excerpt…..Alert: New Email Phishing Scam Uses AICPA Logo Published February 17, 2012 On Thursday February 16, 2012, the AICPA became aware of a fraudulent email phishing scam using an … Continue reading →Read Full Story

This past holiday season showed that spending in brick and mortar stores was significantly off targeted projects. People just weren’t spending as much money in the malls and department stores. However every single study of consumer spending did show that companies with a strong online presence had a significant boost in sales this past year, including the holiday shopping season. In fact during December alone, non-store sales rose 10.6 percent from the same time one year ago. Even...Read Full Story

Six Nigerian men have been arrested in connection with an international phishing ring  that used a variation of the infamous 419 or Nigerian scam to dupe unsuspecting victims. They would send their victims text messages informing them they had won a lottery or that they had been named in a will and had inherited a large sum of money:  ”In the lottery scam, the victim receives a message stating that he has been randomly picked up in a lottery system of a multi-national corporate company...Read Full Story

You thought that was me? Trolololololoololololoollolololol. I also love how Link slags Telax off at the end of his post. Statistics: Posted by Lacdad — Sat Feb 11, 2012 5:10 pmRead Full Story

Just this week, I received yet another email phishing scam. This time it was from a Sister Eli Frank from Singapore. Her email address is: mrselifrank012@9.cn Read the email below: Good day, My Beloved Friend. As I said early, I am Mrs. Eli.J.E.Frank from Singapore, married to Late Engr John Frank {PhD} who worked with MULTINATIONAL OIL COMPANY EXXON AS A DRILLING RIG SUPPLIER in Kuwait for 19 years he died on 31st July 2006 on a plane crash with other passengers, We were married...Read Full Story

The story about how the Malibu Beach project of arms trafficker Marco Shrem lost $4 million of client funds to criminal developer Econoplade, as scam pimp Don Winner spins it on Shrem’s behalf, can not possibly be true. Here’s what Winner recently wrote on his website : For the record I’m still working for Marco Shrem as a consultant and to help him promote the resurrection of the Malibu project. If you will remember, Marco Shrem was basically the victim of a fraud committed against him and...Read Full Story

The story about how the Malibu Beach project of arms trafficker Marco Shrem lost $4 million of client funds to criminal developer Econoplade, as scam pimp Don Winner spins it on Shrem’s behalf, can not possibly be true. Here’s what Winner recently wrote on his website : For the record I’m still working for Marco Shrem as a consultant and to help him promote the resurrection of the Malibu project. If you will remember, Marco Shrem was basically the victim of a fraud committed against him and...Read Full Story

Seniors Tips and Scam Alerts: Dangers of Craigslist While the much of our time here is spent discussing the nuances of Medigap insurance plans , the future of Medicare , and senior healthcare issues, it seems that we also spend a lot of our time talking about scams and frauds. We wish that wasn’t the case, but unfortunately there doesn’t seem to be any limit to the number of scams people are perpetrating in the world, and in many cases, those scams are targeted directly at seniors. Now, we...Read Full Story

Tweet Source: Sophos NakedSecurity by  Graham Cluley  on April 7, 2011 |   Be the first to comment FILED UNDER:   Privacy ,  Social networks ,  Spam Facebook users, both male and female, are finding that they have been tagged in a photo of a young woman dressed as a bunnygirl. But this isn't an early homage to the Easter Bunny, this is an attempt to get unsuspecting Facebook users to click on a scam link offering to reveal who has been stalking them on the social network. And in a change from...Read Full Story

We recently discovered a new phishing scam from a Bank of America spam email message that attempts to warn a computer user of an ‘invalid login’ resulting in a ’suspended banking account’. The spam message is ultimately a phishing scam that tries to lure computer users to a phishing site to obtain banking account login credentials. In the ancient ‘how-to-scam computer users with a bank phishing email’ book, hackers have literally worn out the ink in continually using the same scam tactics...Read Full Story