Exposing Scams

The Governor's Office of Consumer Affairs is warming consumers about an email phishing scam designed to look like an alert from Capital One. The email informs customers that their account may have been accessed from an unauthorized computer. Consumers are urged to click on a website link to...  

MANILA, Philippines --Avoid the queues, place your bets early again, the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office has advised after no one won its super lotto jackpot Thursday.  

Please everyone watch out for scams. Dating and romance scams try to lower your defences by appealing to your romantic or compassionate side.  

Deluxe Corporation (NYSE:DLX), a broad-based solutions provider for small businesses and financial institutions, today announced its formal program for compliance with federal Red Flags identity theft prevention legislation was recently approved. Deluxe is implementing its formal, written...  

LAGOS, Dec 4 (Reuters) - Gunmen attacked a convoy belonging to the Nigerian unit of U.S. oil firm ExxonMobil in the southern Nigerian state of Akwa Ibom on Wednesday, killing one person, the company said on Thursday. Mobil Producing Nigeria ...  

Nigerians currently studying in Canada can now apply and be granted work permit for three years after graduation, the President, Maple Education Canada Inc. (MEC) Mrs. Ebi Obaro said this at a press briefing held at MEC Nigerian office.  

Before watching this video I thought I could spot a Nigerian scammer from his e-mails claiming to be royalty or the father of a dying child. But apparently those online con artists have a new weapon targeting some of the internet’s most vulnerable: people looking for love. Continue...  

Following the death toll of Nigerian babies who have been victims of the poisonous teething Syrup, ‘My Pikin, ’Nigerian medical establishments have imported bouts of a possible antidote to the killer syrup. According to the medical authorities ...  

Your Better Business Bureau is warning consumers of a new string of phishing e-mails making the rounds this holiday season. More  

Lagos — The 10th edition of the Lagos Book and Art Festival (LABAF), yearly organised by the Committee for Relevant Art (CORA), a non-governmental, non-profit-making, interventionistic arts club rounded off penultimate Sunday amidst fanfare.  

A former beauty queen who sued her husband after discovering he won the Florida Lottery and tried to hide the money from her will not get a cut of the winnings, a Miami-Dade judge has ruled. Donna Campbell, 48, filed the lawsuit against husband Arnim ...  

I have always been fascinated by the steady progress being made by Ghana, Nigeria's historically linked neighbour to the West Coast and increasingly a ...  

GOOD fortune continues to surround a Kilmacthomas shop where lottery winnings in the past six years alone have topped in excess of €5.5m.  

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is alerting people this holiday season that cyber criminals continue to aggressively seek ways to steal money and personal information, according to a report obtained by the National Association of Chiefs of Police. Scammers are using several techniques to...  

The Nigerian naira weakened sharply to almost 130 to the U.S. dollar on Tuesday from 120.