iScams - scams on the internet

The web is allways full of gullable people, just like you and I. And there are lots of scammers ready to try to cheat us on our money.

svenskbil.com och fordonspris.com blockade i AdSense

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Länkar du till bedragarsajter från sajter? Det gjorde jag till alldeles nyss och jag tackar Peter Forsman för att han just uppmärksammade mig på det. Det är de två sajterna svenskbil.com och fordonspris.com marknadsför sig hårt på AdWords. Peters efterforskningar visar att det är samma personer som ligger bakom, som tidigare drev fordonsvarderingen, bilpris.com och bilenspris.

Dan Singh (MOH) thinks me a fool

Mail from Dan Singh (MOH)

I don’t get enough lottery scam mails these days. So few that I almost like it when I get mail from people like the alias Dan Singh, who tries to get me to believe that I have won ”Eight Hundred And Fifty Thousand Pounds Sterling ” (not my capitalization). Furthermore Dan Sing sends his mail from a free Canadian e-mail service but wants my reply to a UK free e-mail service. One could expect that someone handling a million dollars would have access to a mail domain of his own…

Ahmed Al Asiri wants me to be his partner in crime

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Ahmed Al Asiri seems to be living in the past. A past, when 419ers where roaming the internet with their wonderful confidental letters bearing wonderful news about inheritances tat where to be collected and hidden funds that need a proxy for a bank transfer.

It’s been quite some time since I last found any of these in my mail, but my new-found 0inbox policy reveals them in a new way, and since the iScam section of this site needs a new contribution, I thought Ahmed’s mail about trying to scam the National Bank of Abu Dhabi for 12 million US dollars that ”the late Mr. Thomas Stone” deposited there before he died.

Kolla var ni loggar in och undvik Twitter-phishing

Det här är inte den korrekta URLen till Twitter.com

Det pågår en rätt välgjord phishing-attack där Twitter-användare luras att ange sitt lösenord och blir av med sina konton. Två av mina Twitter-bekanta har idag skickat mig länkar som tyder på att deras konton har blivit kapade, och som försöker lura mig att uppge mitt lösenord för bedragarna.

YCDBSOYA.com – oj så tokigt det kan bli

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Är YCDBSOYA.com ett bedrägeri eller är det helt resultatet av ofiltrerade drömmar från någon som för länge sedan tappade kontakten med hur webben har utvecklats sedan 1999?

FTC cracks down on Google Money Tree scam

Google Money Tree closed down

The US Federal Trade Commission, FTC, recently reported that they have cracked down on the Google Money Tree pyramid scam as a part of Operation Shortchange. Great news!

GOV. JAMES IBORI wants an investment partner

Gmail - INVESTMENT PROJECT scam

Summer and winter are the haydays for various scammers. Here’s a fresh one. ”Governor James Ibori” wants a partner, but doesn’t seem to even know my e-mail address (since the mail is sent to a non-disclosed email list). Just another scam, and of course worthy of a mention here at Nikke’s Index…

Michael Williams with a Nigerian business proposal

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You have to give this Nigerian scammer some respect for being so brief in his pitch. However, I don’t think he will get that many replies, wich of course is a good thing in itself! I kind of like his method of sending from an msn mail address and taking replies from Yahoo! mail too. [...]

The story behind a 419 scam

John Rempel, Leamington

The Windsor Star has an interesting article about a 419 scam. John Rempel, Leamington John Rempel from Leamington has fallen hard for one of these scams and I quite admire his courage for coming out publicly to talk about how he was scammed. And I do feel with him. We need some examples like this so that people actually understand that some of these scams are actually carried through.

Ekene Chukwu – a newbie scammer

Ekene Chukwu seems to be really new as a 419 scammer, since he makes some of the classic mistakes. First of all he has his own email address as the recipient of the mail. Secondly, the mail has those small mistakes that a real solicitor just wouldn’t make, such as the left out blank after [...]

Dr. J. C. Williams – House of Senate

The below House of Senate scam is almost as old as the concept of 419 mails. When you get a mail that sounds too good to be true, it probably is. When you get a mail written in all-caps, it’s probably written by someone who isn’t quite sure about the concept of capitalization, e.g. someone [...]

Miss Maryrose Adam sends a classic 419 mail

Wow! It’s not everyday you receive such a classic and truly typical 419 scam in your inbox! Miss Maryrose Adam claims to have deposited a ridiculously large sum in a bank in the US, and she needs someone to help her claim them….

David Adams wants to relate

If you aren’t a scammer, and want to hook up with people for a legitimate business proposition, I have a few pointers to give you, like using a legitimate e-mail address, addressing people directly and not through an undisclosed email recipiant list. David Adams has done the oposite in this mail that just landed in my inbox…

David Brinsford has a shady proposition

This is a perfect example of a classic 419 scam. You get a proposition from a distinguised banker. It’s a proposition you shouldn’t rightfully get and it involves a lot of money. You don’t have any relatives who have died in any car accidents in Birmingham, but the seed of a thought awakens in your [...]

Your ATM Card Value USD ($700,000.00) is Ready

I think this scam attempt is a pretty new one. I notice that the scammers have noticed that websites such as this one exists, and write that this mail has been sent out to many receivers. However, if it looks like a scam mail, is written like a scam mail, have all the markings of [...]

Yahoo Award Center

Did you get mail from the Yahoo! Awards Center? I hate to break it to you, but the mail is fake. It’s a typical scam, sent to thousands of people in order to try to steal their money, their identity or just pick petty change from them by making them answer, and thereby confirm their [...]

Powerball Online Promo keeps it short

Powerball Online Promo don’t waste words when trying to scam us. Short and to the point, and I don’t really think anybody will fall for this, but still… Here goes: X-Originating-IP: [202.75.62.162] From: Powerball Online Promo <gustavo.stringel@sympatico.ca> Reply-To: mrfrancis_scott@hotmail.com Organization: Powerball Online Promo To: <info@winner.org> Subject: File For Claims Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 21:56:30 [...]

Mrs. Grace Beatrice Minor wants assistance

There are lots of instances of the below mail on the web, and I’m afraid that there is also a real Grace Beatrice Minor, the name that these scammers use in the below scam mail. Actually, there is no chance at all that the below mail is sent by the Grace Beatrice Minor who is [...]

Mr Ahmed Usman wants to donate 500,000 pounds

It’s been a while since I posted the last scam mail here. Not that I haven’t received any, it’s more that they seem to come in at such a steady stream that it sometimes seems futile to even think that I can publish them all. Anyhow, here’s a mail that seems to come from a [...]

Abdul Isa of African Development Bank, Burkina Faso

This e-mail from the alias of Abdul Isa, from the African Development Bank in Burkina Faso must be one of the longest bankscam e-mails I have ever received. It has all the markings of a scam, with the bait, the re-assurments, and the wow of silence. The first rule of a bank scam is ”don’t [...]