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Re: Determine if email address is used by scammer 1 Week Ago by rproffitt The police email scam is well known. That's about all you need to know that it's the scam of note. Example: https://www.reddit.com/r/Scams/comments/1b592gr/is_this_real/ r/Scams has many other scams of note. Worth noting: 1. Do not track them down. 2. Ignore, block and report as spam. 3. No police use a Gmail account. The Rise of AI Scams: Deciphering Reality in a World of Deepfakes 1 Month Ago by Johannes C. … with frightening accuracy. Hence, my prediction is that scams will become more elaborate, more personalized, and they…not millions, of recipients. The success of such scams relied on the sheer volume of attempts, with personalization…providing scammers with the tools to create highly personalized scams. Imagine this: someone recreates the voice of a… Re: Change-a-Letter-or-Two-Game 17 Years Ago by mattyd scams Beware of Facebook Scams. 12 Years Ago by jingda Check out this link and you should know what to look out for when using facebook especially against scammers and hackers. Here is the link [url]http://sg.yahoo.matchmovegames.com/news/article/facebook-scams[/url] Re: Those Nigerian Scams 15 Years Ago by woooee … them "human" beings. Although, the only reason the scams work is because of greed on the part of the… responder. If the total amount offered in all of these scams were added together it would equal many times the known… Re: Those Nigerian Scams 15 Years Ago by GrimJack … "You can't cheat an honest man". Most scams are based on the idea of getting something for nothing… scam[/URL]! Take a look at some of the other scams available.> Re: Those Nigerian Scams 15 Years Ago by vegaseat I understand that most of those Nigerian dead friend/relative scams originate from the Netherlands and the perpetrators are mostly Romanian Gypsy gangs. Re: Those Nigerian Scams 15 Years Ago by peter_budo …]I understand that most of those Nigerian dead friend/relative scams originate from the Netherlands and the perpetrators are mostly Romanian… Re: Those Nigerian Scams 15 Years Ago by vegaseat In case somebody has never seen one of those scams, here is one I got not too long ago, very … Re: Those Nigerian Scams 15 Years Ago by Lardmeister Never heard of Nigerian Scams, very interesting way to fleece some rather stupid people. Re: Those Nigerian Scams 15 Years Ago by woooee … teenagers are seen as easy marks for these type of scams. Re: Those Nigerian Scams 15 Years Ago by sneekula … less for people on DaniWeb that have been exposed to scams. Is there a new twist? How did we handle them… Re: Those Nigerian Scams 15 Years Ago by GrimJack You are correct sir. I will stop complaining when someone posts 2 screens worth of garbage to tell you that they changed a line in there somewhere. If this were about new, improved scams, I would agree but pages and pages of minor variants of the Nigerian scam is just tedius. I will take my whinging to a different thread. Re: Those Nigerian Scams 15 Years Ago by Lardmeister … line in there somewhere. If this were about new, improved scams, I would agree but pages and pages of minor variants… 2009: year of the scam 15 Years Ago by happygeek ….) 4 - Work at home and job scams. (These scams have been around for years, but rising … unemployment insurance.) 7 - Classified ads and auction scams. (Scammers use local online classified ads, CraigsList …Unfortunately, the deals aren’t real.) 9 - Ticket Scams. (Criminals are producing counterfeit tickets for concerts, festivals… Anatomy of a phishing scam 17 Years Ago by happygeek …get-rich-quick schemes and £260 million for lottery scams. Frighteningly enough, the survey also revealed that a … seems to think it can combat email based phishing scams with red tape. The ‘Consumer Protection Co-operation’… these will be the criminals operating fake lottery winner scams or holiday club and timeshare frauds. Bringing some joined … Scam Job Emails And How To Identify Them 17 Years Ago by usajobtst …increasing everyday, it is no surprise that work-at-home scams offering online work that reap big financial gains have also…rewards with you putting in the minimal effort are usually scams. I got an email recently about a job in … more people might be cheated. Many people deceived by job scams have lost alot of their hard earned money, in addition… Advance fee fraud warning 15 Years Ago by happygeek …html"]419 fraud[/URL], along with other financial scams, have spiked as we enter 2009. From December …22nd 2008, through into January 2009, the number of scams detected by MessageLabs more than doubled. The numbers show…of it, according to MessageLabs which predicts that 419 scams will start switching tactic from the traditional elaborate prose,… IT security threats appear as London 2012 Olympic Games fast approach 11 Years Ago by happygeek …". We've already seen plenty of online ticket scams, many taking the SEO-poisoning route and using ads …other high traffic sites to pull in victims before the scams are discovered and the adverts removed. With ticket availability …allocation have finished in the UK, these kinds of scams are expected to ramp up in the weeks remaining before… Warning: Tesco voucher scam running riot on Facebook (again) 11 Years Ago by happygeek … (they will come in handy for identity theft and further scams). Two: complete this survey (these are often genuine third …click-through revenue, or direct the victim to yet more scams and the potential of drive-by malware installation for good… you think you may have fallen for either of these scams, or any other, please go to your profile page … Gates Goes on a Phishing Trip 19 Years Ago by ! ! … of uncovering some of the largest phishing operators. In phishing scams, the Internet-based communications often purport to be from legitimate… can subpoena the Internet service providers from which the phishing scams originated in an attempt to force the ISPs to reveal… The Google Snooper 17 Years Ago by happygeek … for a whopping 63% of all the active phishing site scams. Sutton was perhaps most amused, however, by his discovery that… interested by the fact that very few of the phishing scams featured made any use of open URL redirection which has… Pump and dump spammers targeted by Texas and technology 16 Years Ago by happygeek … happy and rich. Yet thousands of people fall for such scams every week, which is why pump and dump spam has… to have orchestrated a series of pump and dump spam scams using a zombie network for distribution at an estimated cost… Monster.com was not hacked but data theft was inevitable 16 Years Ago by happygeek … been involved in the spamming of Monster.com related phishing scams. And here lies the real rub of the latest attack…, those phishing scams rely upon being as realistic as possible in gaining the… Online identity auction selling credit cards for half a dollar 16 Years Ago by happygeek … Mb [*]Social Security Numbers $5 [*]Mailers $8 [*]Full Identity $10 [*]Scams $10 per week [*]Bank Accounts $30[/LIST] Commenting on the… to the technology needed to become involved in these identity scams, we can only expect this trend to continue to grow… Surviving the online credit crisis fallout 15 Years Ago by happygeek … online arena for making money via spoofing banks for phishing scams. Between August and September this kind of phishing attack grew… tips to keep consumers and business users protected from financial scams: [LIST=1] [*]Know that financial institutions will never require customers… Want to buy something stolen? 15 Years Ago by GuyClapperton … theft. But there's also the phishing scams (for which people still fall), the Nigerian scams in which people - bafflingly - part with… People still fall for scareware? 14 Years Ago by GuyClapperton … it's inevitable; people on their own will fall for scams. No, what alarms me is that the IT community (and… they trust, like an employer, it could transform the way scams succeed on the Internet. Now if you'll excuse me… "I've Been Mugged! Send Money!" 14 Years Ago by slfisher … you're on the receiving end of one of these scams? Experts suggest that you try to confirm some piece of… then heard he was in London. Sadly, many of these scams are perpetrated outside the U.S., so it's tough… Social Networking Porn Shocker 14 Years Ago by newsguy …] from Symantec, a truly astonishing 92% of all adult phishing scams are being conducted across social networking sites. This coincides with… same 'free porn' promise being made over the years with scams ranging from [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/news/story256128…