Archive for the ‘Scam Trend’ Category
Friday, April 4th, 2008
Each time I receive an email from "PayPal" claiming that my account has been limited, my heart drops to my stomach, EVEN THOUGH I suspect that it is a phishing attempt. I do not feel at ease until I log into my PayPal account and see no pop up message ...
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
After getting the PayPal phishing mail, I received an eBay phishing mail pulak.... Check this screenshot. First thing that alerted me was that this email was sent to "undisclosed-recipients". A real email from eBay will always be sent to the email that you have registered your account with.
The first line ...
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Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
This morning, I received a PayPal phishing attempt. It's not the first time but it has been a while that I was nearly caught off guard. LOL Yea, right! Anyway, to be sure that this was a real phishing attempt despite seeing that this email was not addressed to me ...
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Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Did you read the news about the lady in Lancaster, New York, who was scammed of US$9,000, her life-savings, a couple of days ago?
The news went that she was stopped in the middle of the road by a guy who wanted directions. While she was talking to him, another guy ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
I am sure some of you who are looking for freebies would have been tempted to sign up with TRAIL OFFERS that promise you freebies. While some of these are genuine, let me just remind you that there are some unscrupulous companies that would give you one hell of a ...
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
This morning, I received a message from a Buyer that was purportedly sent via eBay's messaging system. The odd thing was that the item that he was truing to pay me was for a pair of Johnny Depp socks. Now, you know that I never sell socks, don't you? So ...
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Tuesday, October 9th, 2007
A few days ago, I read on Yahoo! Business that Yahoo! eBay and PayPal are joining forces to curb fraudulent, scam and phishing mail. This will create a safer environment to eBay and PayPal users who are using Yahoo! Mail. Personally, I have had many such emails falling into my ...
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Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007
Last evening, a friend told me that he received an email with a proposal to invest a sum of money in a ponzi -like scheme. Err... I told him to trash that email and stay away from schemes like that. If he wants to invest, by all means do it ...
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Friday, September 21st, 2007
Trust these scammers to be on the ball. I received an email last night from a Chinese sounding name whom I bet sent out this mail en mass. Well, apparently, we have relatives who unfortunately perished in the Tsunami tragedy BUT good news to us, the deceased left us a ...
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Wednesday, September 19th, 2007
You probably remember me writing about receiving greeting cards from all sorts of people and I found out later that this was the latest attempt at phishing for sensitive information.
Well, guess what? Now, I no longer receive these cards purportedly from my neighbours, co-workers, family members, admirers and even worshippers, ...
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