2024-04-16 00:24
The COVID-19 pandemic spawned many scams at its height, but a few linger on and this includes the high school sports streaming sites.
During those moribund days of lockdowns and social dista… Read More
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2024-04-01 23:24
It’s always a guarantee if someone is kidnapped that a ransom is demanded. Unfortunately, paying a ransom doesn’t always ensure that the kidnapped person will be returned, unharm… Read More
2024-03-26 00:42
When it comes to cryptocurrency, it’s a Wild Wild West of opportunities, and many of those “opportunities” are nefarious in nature. Enter the “refund and recovery&rdq&hell…Read More
2024-03-19 23:40
A friend’s or loved one’s birthday or anniversary pops up on your calendar, so you shop for an appropriate greeting card and grab a gift card to tuck inside. Sadly, there is one… Read More
2024-03-14 23:46
Back in the day, when you received a phone call from a wrong number, the person calling either miss-dialed or was given your number by mistake. Usually there would be an apology from the cal… Read More
2024-03-09 00:10
It’s bad enough to target anyone with the decades old scam of posing as a friend or loved one (via text or email), supposedly stranded in a foreign country or in jail and pleading for… Read More
2024-02-06 00:34
You’re probably seeing this message (see image below), nearly verbatim, pop up in your Facebook DMs. This is NOT Facebook communicating with you — it’s a scammer intent on… Read More
2020-04-29 23:22
When it comes to making money from tragedy, scammers know no bounds. Even in the midst of a dangerous worldwide pandemic, their scummy minds are busy concocting nefarious schemes to take adv… Read More
2016-04-18 19:08
Just like a bad penny, print at home scams are making a comeback. It’s a variation of the Nigerian 419 “Advance Fee” scam, which seems to mutate into many forms like a nast… Read More
2016-03-15 21:35
Scammers have found yet another angle in illegally obtaining sensitive personal information. Rather than simply targeting random people and harassing them with robocalls posing as the IRS, f… Read More
2015-11-12 18:51
We’ve all received those bogus phishing emails that begin with “Some limitations have been placed on your account…”, right? They’re mostly for PayPal and every… Read More
2015-10-21 23:36
Microsoft, the software behemoth, usually doesn’t bother with small potato tech firms. Unless they start pimping themselves as Microsoft tech support and using Microsoft’s logo… Read More
2015-10-01 21:14
One of the most important warning signs when encountering a possible scam is the “If it’s too good to be true, it most likely IS too good to be true” rule. If you’re… Read More
2015-09-23 19:17
You’ve no doubt received mysterious “invoices” landing in your email inbox, yet you don’t recall ever having ordered or contracted with the person or “service&r&hell…Read More
2015-08-09 19:22
If you live in North Texas you’ve probably received a robo-call with this message:
The reason for this call is to inform you that the IRS is filing a lawsuit against you. To get more i… Read More
2015-08-06 00:51
So where did $22 million in missing investment money go in eleven years? Investors in a ponzi scheme hatched by Richmond, Texas businessman, Frederick Alan Voight, are wondering just th… Read More
2015-08-01 17:46
I hate receiving spam, but I especially hate receiving spam via the contact forms on my websites. It’s bad enough to receive spam, but to have spam sent to you using your own bandwidth… Read More
2015-07-21 18:00
As anyone visiting this site knows, besides our focus on the extended auto warranty scams, we really REALLY hate spam phone calls (aka telemarketing phone calls). I’m sure you’ve… Read More
2015-05-27 22:36
Oh, poor Mrs. Barbara Manenga. She’s dying and wants to name you (and all the other people she’s scamming) as beneficiary for a whopping $7.5M. All you have to do is contact her… Read More
2015-05-16 22:01
For those of you who have blogs and must wade through hundreds of spammy comments per day, I have a gift for you. Yep, my ever-growing list of known spammers, their URLs and I… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
I’m not sure how long this had been going on, perhaps for only a few days, but apparently this website appeared to be hacked. Any visitors to the site were immediately redirecte… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Spammers are finding more ingenious (or so they hope) methods for verifying email addresses and identifying email addresses used in contact forms. The latest method is to ask question… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Some scams have their heyday for a while and then go dormant. Sometimes scammers employ a new twist or angle, and others just recycle the same scheme from rote. Well, the bogus domain… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
I’m starting a series, ‘Nigeria to Hong Kong’, spotlighting the latest in email scams originating from those regions. Inaugurating this series is an email received f… Read More
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