By: Ronald Edwards | 2007-01-15 | Business Yes this is an actual email that was sent to us by the scammers. First ask yourself how does the lottery make any money if you do not buy a ticket? It is really not a lottery anymore is it? If the drawing is based on your email address and they say that it is a promotion being run by Microsoft it makes no sense in that one can have an email address and never be using a Microsoft product to access their email. read more
By: Daniel Collins | 2009-01-02 | Advice In recent times, lottery scam emails have become increasingly clever, as well as a lot more common. Indeed, lottery scam emails are nothing new, but they are becoming a lot more widespread as technology progresses and an increasing number of people gain access to the internet. As it goes, emails are quite easy to forge; they can appear to come from an official sounding source, which can often lead unsuspecting recipients to appear far more trustworthy than they should be. A typical lottery scam email informs the recipient that they have won a major prize and then requests that the “winner”. read more
By: Ronald Edwards | 2007-01-15 | Business The Nigerians look for links between people on the internet apparently. They play along with their intended victim for a time and then they ask for money to cover expenses usually to get the funds released. They will say they need a certificate of good standing on the funds or some nonsense document that does not exist in the real world of banking. read more
By: chad atw | 2007-03-27 | Finance Discussing a scam that effects hundreds. and its through pretending to be the government.This scam is sure to be a danger if people are not aware! read more
By: Dave Smith | 2007-08-17 | Internet Business Ever since I started encouraging people to take out Paypal subscriptions to support my ezine, Ive had lots of questions along the lines of Can Paypal be trusted? and How do I know that they are not going to empty my account? Well, the simple answer to these questions is that Paypal are the biggest and the best in online eCommerce, and as far as I know they are completely trustworthy. read more
By: Steven Jobs | 2009-06-27 | Business “Phishing is a type of scam which tries to trick you into revealing your valuable personal data. e.g. credit card numbers, passwords, account data, or other information.” Sophia, the representative of China Professional Electronics Wholesale Company ePathChina (http://www.epathchina.com) said anxiously. She said that scammers are more and more cunning nowadays that anyone should be more careful when receiving the emails that you never know. read more
By: Gregg Housh | 2010-01-10 | Internet Business A lot of us are already well familiar with the annoyance of spam: unsolicited e-mail advertisements. In recent years, unwanted emails have evolved in an attempt to avoid increasingly advanced filters and wary recipients. We have put together a list of red flags to help you quickly spot e-mails that... read more
By: Kaisilver | 2005-12-04 | Ecommerce Frauds and email scams on Paypal accounts have become more frequent. Our network team has put together a report on the current Paypal frauds email scams being perpetuated by fraudsters. read more
By: Nowshade Kabir | 2003-10-21 | Ecommerce Although this scam has its root from Nigeria dated a decade back, nowadays, you receive similar scam letters from many African countries, notably, Nigeria, Benin, Togo and even South Africa. The subject lines of these emails are pretty similar. Something like: Business relationship, Urgent Assistance needed, Soliciting for your assistance, A cry for help etc. Most of the emails from this scam begin in the same way. Here are two excerpts from most recent emails that we received: I am Engr Moses Ekpen a director in the budget and planning department of the Federal Ministry o... read more
By: Kim Chambers | 2010-01-20 | Business Digital e-mail signatures can help reduce the impact of scam threats for online businesses as well as trace fraudsters who have used them. read more
By: Thomas Ajava | 2009-09-11 | Spam If there is one agency everyone responds to, it is the IRS. Scammers know this and have developed a host of campaigns using the name of the agency to sucker taxpayers into releasing information. A new email scam uses the threat of underreported income to get consumers to download a malicious file. read more
By: Frank Demming | 2008-12-15 | Travel Tips If you’ve got an email address, chances are high that you’ve received emails that tell you that you can get a great vacation deal if you “just act now”! Often you’ll receive phone calls that are the same, asking if you want a vacation deal. Should you take the time to answer these emails and these phone calls about vacation deals, or should you avoid them entirely? read more
By: Nowshade Kabir | 2003-10-21 | Ecommerce Internet scams and frauds are on the rise! The quantity of scam emails with various fraud schemes any email account receives today is simply overwhelming! There is this infamous Nigerian 419 scam, which is by far the most widely circulated one. I wrote about it in one of our ezine articles not long ago. You can read about it here! And there are many other scams like Lottery, Letter of Credit, money transfer, black money conversion, real estate, fraudulent order and the list goes on and on. Looking at my daily doze of scam letters, looks like, the lottery scam seams to be gain... read more
By: Pavan Kumar | 2010-01-10 | Email Marketing Email Finder Review- Email Finder is an email address lookup and reverse email lookup site that allows users to find email addresses instantly. We review companies with email lookup and reverse lookup services that are powered by a database of over 750 million members. read more
By: Wayne Davis | 2009-03-20 | Internet Business In most cases, if a stranger came up to you to ask for your credit card number or other sensitive personal information, you probably wouldn’t be very willing to offer it up, but by using the anonymity of the internet, those who create phishing scams get you to do exactly that – give your personal data to complete strangers. The term ‘phishing scam’ refers to programs that attempt to gain data about an individual or an individual’s financial information. That data is then used for a variety of purposes. Avoiding them is absolutely necessary, and these tips may help. Email Phishing S. read more
By: Patrick Lowe | 2010-01-10 | Email Marketing Does the EmailFinder service website really work, or is it actually a scam site? I am sure that you are interested in using it because you want to find out the owner of an email address. Doing a reverse search on e-mails can be quite tricky and is certainly much harder than doing a reverse search for phone numbers. read more
By: Stephen Grisham Sr. | 2009-02-26 | Email Marketing The IRS has issued a warning about a tax refund email scam. You get an email allegedly from the IRS saying you are due a tax refund. You are told to click on a link to the IRS website. On this page, they request your social security number and other personal information, so you can gain access to your account. read more
By: Kevin Lopez | 2008-11-27 | Internet Business Almost everyone today who has used the Internet and emails, have at least encountered the infamous email scam at least once or twice. In fact, it wouldnt be too far from the truth to say that seeing one of those email scam and spam in our inbox has almost become a routine in checking our mails. But how is it that they got our email address? Learn about some of the methods that they use. read more
By: Leva Duell | 2008-10-19 | Business Email processing appeals to people who are looking for typing work and want to make money working from home with their computer. The email processing scams comes in several variations. They are similar to envelope stuffing scams because you get paid when placing ads and selling the same scam to others. The promises: • After paying an administrative fee, youll receive a training kit and you can become an email processor processing emails from home. • You will get paid $5 to $50 for each email you process. • You can process as many emails as you want and work when . read more
By: Thomas Ajava | 2010-01-10 | Taxes Paying taxes is just about the least favorite thing for most people. Getting scammed on a tax subject is even worse, but a new Making Work Pay Refund scam is going around and you need to be aware of it so that you don’t fall prey. read more