Category Archives: Around the Web

Let’s see what scams are making the news around the world. Weekly collection of news.

Scams in the News (9/11/2009)

Da Vinci Code Fans Targeted By Real International Conspiracy… Continue reading – It’s the shocking mystery hidden for a millennium: What will Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown’s next book be about? But, beware, truth seekers: Chasing the latest clues to the upcoming novel The Lost Symbol could expose you to a vast and secret conspiracy that’s been manipulating Google search results to push malicious software (fake anti-virus).

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Scams in the News (9/07/2009)

Nigerian scam hits online vacation rentals… Continue reading – Tim had found a fantastic vacation rental online in North Topsail Beach, N.C. He could see the pictures, read the text, and it all looked good. Tim called the number. The person he spoke to on the phone asked for a deposit, a certified check, for Tim’s booking, about a year in the future. Tim agreed and sent off

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Scams in the News (08/29/2009)

Today we have some feel-good news. A few of the stories making news today are about internet scammers getting caught.
Police nab Internet “fraud king” in France – Italian police said Friday that a man known through Europe as the “fraud king” had been arrested in France for swindling as much as euro500,000 ($718,000) out of tourists and other unsuspecting people through Internet scams.
Facebook ‘London’… Continue reading

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Scams in the News (08/24/2009)

Adding Insult to Injury: Online Scams Target Jobless… Continue reading – With unemployment high and rising, more people are streaming onto the Web in search of jobs – but running into costly scams. Like job seekers, criminals are after moneymaking opportunities online. And they’re setting increasingly sophisticated traps to prey on the desperation of the jobless, whose guards are down amid eroding savings, swelling debts and calamities like

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Scams in the News (08/17/2009)

Scammers Hit Maplewood Real Estate Listings – internet scam artists have  been offering fake online rental listing for Maplewood homes. According to the post, the current owner of a Maplewood home recently put on the market for sale spotted an ad on Craigslist offering the home for rent.
Green Residents Attacked by Phishing E-mail Scam… Continue reading- web users are getting a phishing mail claiming that they

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Scams in the News (8/10/2009)

Internet Scams Just Keep on Coming – Our Computer Crimes Unit just finished a three-month investigation in which a Naperville resident learned that nearly $20,000 was removed from his stock trading account. This was done by either a “phishing scam” or a Key logging trojan virus that was placed in the victim’s computer.
Scam targets prospective renters on Craigslist – How does renting a luxury home… Continue reading

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