I wasn’t planning on touching on the madness of Catfished beyond my original article, but this person just had to be commented on.
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Spam Showcase Vol. 2: “Chevron Texaco Oil Promotion”
Time for another Spam Showcase, this time a short one. Apparently, according to an email titled “Re: Congratulations” I’ve won what I can only guess is a large sum of money! Hooray, I no longer have to do the “used game store” rat race! Well, that’s what I would think if this wasn’t obviously a …
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Making Life Hell For Refund Scammers
Here we have another wonderful anti-scammer video by our friend Jim Browning. This video demonstrates another refund scam in progress, with Jim all the while watching from behind the scenes. In this case, we have a situation where somehow a scammer has convinced the victim that he is entitled to some kind of refund and …
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An MLGW Payment Kiosk Error Spawns A Bill Payment Hoax
I’m still trying to get all the details on this one, but I think I have enough to be able to write about this accurately enough, so let’s get to it: It would seem today that, for whatever reason, an error in the bill payment kiosk’s for Memphis Light, Gas, and Water (MLGW) would “not …
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Tech Scammers Arrested In The UK And Microsoft Discontinuing Syskey!
Touching on our old friend, the tech support scam, we have some news coming from a well known member of the anti-scammer community, Lewis of Lewis’s Tech. To start with, we have the recent arrest of 4 people who were probably the masterminds behind a few groups: while we all know the calls originate in …
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The Classic Utility Bill Scam Is Back In Memphis
One particular type of scam that’s rather common are ones involving your utilities, mainly electricity, where they claim you owe a large amount on the bill and you have to pay now. Thing is, you can’t pay with your bank card, they only take cash at an undisclosed location or, to make things simpler, you …
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Wham Bam Thank You Scam – A YouTuber Tracks Down People Who Scammed Him
I don’t just pay attention to tech support scams. I find most any type of scam interesting, not just in the actual application of such and spreading awareness of these things, but also the back-end of these scams: where these people come from, how they pull off what they do, and how they skirt the …
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Scammer Sunday: Carey Holzman Calls a Tech Support Scam Company
Last week I introduced you to the concept of the tech support scam. I only scratched the surface in that article, hitting on some of the absolute most common tactics used by support scammers. Today, I felt it good to share a video of these guys in action. Enter Carey Holzman, a computer tech with …
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