About Daily Scam Alerts
This is a collection of all the scam emails sent daily to my email address and text messages, as well as contributions from scam reporters. The purpose of this website is to warn others that what they are receiving in their mail could be a scam.
Statistics show about 2.1 million people in the US have been victims of scams that netted close to $1 billion. In the UK, Advanced Free Fraud Scams cost the UK economy £150m a year - with the average victim losing £31,000. This is a very serious and a huge income generating scheme conducted by con artists who lived in poor corrupt countries.
Here is an excerpt from a site about the widely notorious Nigerian Scam:
“The Nigerian scam is hugely successful. According to a 1997 newspaper article: ‘We have confirmed losses just in the United States of over $100 million in the last 15 months,’ said Special Agent James Caldwell, of the Secret Service financial crimes division. ‘And that’s just the ones we know of. We figure a lot of people don’t report them.’”
Many of the scam emails have very a similar pattern. The most common are the following:
- Someone died they ask you to help manage the money to transfer or invest on a new business in your country.
- They offer 10-25% of all the money you will handle, which amounts to millions of dollars.
- Using a newly registered domain to make it look like a legitimate business.
- Uses the name and email of a real company but the reply to email uses a free email service (yahoo, walla, myway, etc).
- Hack into an unsecure websites and load their spamming programs and phising sites.
- Asks you to visit a link to verify your account. Most common sites are faked PayPal, Moneybookers and Online Banks.
- Offers a fake job and sometimes involves an actual phone interview. Later they will ask you to send money to process your visa.
- You won a lottery you never joined and asks you to pay processing fees so you can get your winnings.
Here you can see how many scam alerts are posted all throughout the blogosphere:
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