Scams
'Zig-Zag' Bangkok Airport Scam: More Details Revealed
THE FOCUS on an extortion scam at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi airport broadened today as the BBC reported that instances of entrapment are more frequent than officials believe.
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Man loses 35,000 dollars in 'marinaded money' scam
OSLO (AFP) - A Vietnamese man in Norway lost around 35,000 dollars after he was led to believe that mixing the cash with a special liquid would double its value, Norwegian media reported Saturday.
Accumulated family disasters = Botswana email scam
Respectable husband (member of the diplomatic corps this time, but could be lawyer, wealthy businessman, king of a non-existing country etc.) of African nationality dies in 4 days of a brief illness (maybe ebola?) and leaves a young child (of unkn...
Jobless man 'sells' The Ritz
A JOBLESS fraudster attempted to sell London’s famous Ritz Hotel to a businessman for £250million, a court heard today. Fraudster Tony Lee posed as a representative for the hotel’s owners – the reclusive Barclay brothers – taking a £1million depos...
Sierra Leone / Ivory Coast Scam
I should be a billionaire by now, having received so many unbeatable offers of quick fortune. Today's email is simple and "straightforward". It doesn't rely on my sympathy, even if the sender's father has been deceased, there is no mention of murd...
The Angolan email scam
Sometimes the most interesting pieces of your mailbox lie in your junk mail folder. I encourage everyone to post the best picks and share a good laugh with us. This time a very likable sounding young girl, "Tessy" from Angola needs my help. I got ...
Oregon Man's Property Ransacked after Craigslist Hoax
JACKSONVILLE, Ore. -- Police say belongings removed from a Southern Oregon man's property have begun slowly reappearing at his home, a day after a pair of hoax ads on Craigslist cost Robert Salisbury much of what he owned. And police said people w...
Fake fears over Ethiopia's gold
Ethiopia's national bank has been told to inspect all the gold in its vaults to determine its authenticity. It follows the discovery that some of the "gold" it had bought for millions of dollars was gold-plated steel. The first hint that something...
Investigators have uncovered what they suspect is a wedding scam involving more than 200 British and Canadian couples who paid hundreds of dollars for Dominican marriages that were never officially recorded.
Cyber-savvy town gets rich on eBay frauds
HUNDREDS of people in the poor Romanian town of Dragasani have grown rich by conning eBay online auction customers with deals that seem too good to be true - and often are. The scammers have even put the new town hall up for sale on eBay, the mayo...
Derren Brown: Russian Scam
Derren Brown manages to take someones wallet and house keys, simply by asking for them naturally. Apparently, it is an old Russian scam. Incredible how you don't realise you're being conned.
Wiis For Only $99
An Arkansas man(?) advertised Wii for $99 on www.wiifor99.com. According to Consumerist.com, the website has also been advertised on Facebook. Here are two screenshots taken before the site was suspended. Nice phishing attempt.
The Real Hustle - The Poker Scam
The hustlers are going to cheat in poker against 3 pros, using rigged decks.
Fake Craigslist post offered sex for cash
Men hungry for sex besieged a Brooklyn woman with phone calls after spotting a bogus ad on Craigslist that said she was looking to turn tricks to pay off Christmas debt.
How to make money out of Bhutto's death - SCAM ALERT
Today I got this letter from "Benazir Bhutto's lawyer" informing me that I had been chosen as Bhutto's next of kin and heir of her fortune. Needless to say that I'm not, so I was very pleasantly suprised ;-) Bhutto's lawyer is very generous, he of...
Scams targeting US troops and their families
A 3rd Infantry Division soldier deploying to Iraq is warning other servicemembers of the latest scam to target troops and their families. According to 1st Lt. David Cowan, in early December his 84-year-old grandmother received a phone call from a ...
Bartender Secrets and Scams
Spam of the Day
Everybody knows spam too well and most of the time we find them highly irritating (when not?). I mostly have the luck to enjoy the ones promising "male" enhancement. Tell me what a girl to do with such an offer...? ;-) But... today is the day when...
Stan Schroeder, Mashable writes: This is one weird scam. Someone registered the domain Faebook.com (Facebook without a C) and redirected it, using an iframe, to Amazon - of course, with his/her own Amazon referrals. It’s the good old tactics of us...