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So what does it take to beat a scammer at their own game?  Many people quiver with excitement when they hear about an opportunity to stab back at people whose only purpose is to get rich off of other man kind’s misery.

Well, let me tell you, I started writing this article on how to catch a scammer, and about part way through I felt dirty.  So I stopped, and instead thought you would find more interesting in learning about ways you deal with a situation when you think you are being scammed.  Here are a few tips:

1. If possible use a public computer terminal if the matter is serious (so they cannot track your IP address)
2. Use a public email address like a hotmail or yahoo account for all correspondence.
3. Never give away personal information.  Particularly information related to anything financial, your identity, or your location of where you live.
4. Always ask for confirmation of your emails when they are sent off.  Doing this covers your tracks and can be used later down the road against them.

These are a few of many tips that can server you well if you are dealing with someone you believe may be scamming you.  If you have any questions or comments, please post the below for everyone to see.

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With so many types of spyware floating around on the internet, it’s virtually impossible to own one anti-spyware program that can remove everything.  This would require software companies to spend hundreds of thousands of man hours, and more importantly, they would need to be able to analyze every infected computer on the internet which is near impossible.

So what do you do when you come across spyware, and you cannot remove the infection?  Or what if Norton Antivirus keep warning you of an infection and you just can’t make it go away?  There’s only one real solution and it involves a human – you need to remove it manually!

So what the hell does that mean?  REMOVE A VIRUS MANUALLY?

It means that you either need a geek to rip out the viruses and spyware using advanced techniques an utilities, or learn how to yourself.  If you are a tech, you immediately must pick up a copy of PCsecuritySecrets.  There’s a section dedicated to advanced removal techniques – and not using automated software.

PCsecuritySecrets walks you through a proven, 100% guaranteed fix for manually removing ANY variant of Malware, Spyware, Virus or Trojan.  You can even kill a root kit!

If you are an average computer user, you can still make use of the techniques; it requires a little time a due diligence in learning the material.  The information presented is very simple and straight forward.  It avoid technical jargon that can put you off of reading it and succeeding at eradicating the malware.

Don’t waste any more time!  Check it out here.

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Here’s another sample of a fraud email sent from Mr. Lo Ping Wing.  Excuse the formatting, this is how I recieved the email. 

I am Mr.Lo Ping Wing, Bank Official of Macau Chinese bank, Macau Branch,Macau, China. I have urgent and very confidential business proposition for you. An Oil consultant/contractor with the China Petroleum and Chemical Corp. made a numbered time (Fixed) Deposit for twelve calendar months, valued at US$128,000,000.00 (One Hundred and Twenty eight Million Dollars) in my branch. Upon maturity, I sent a routine notification to his forwarding address but got no reply. After a month, we sent a reminder and finally we discovered from his contract employers that the consultant died from an automobile accident. On further investigation, I found out that he died without making a WILL, and all attempts to trace his next of kin was fruitless, and I beleive this might be due to the reasoning that he might have used a fictitous Identity to open the account.I therefore made further investigation and discovered that the consultant did not declare any kin or relations in all his official documents, including his Bank Deposit paperwork in my Bank.
This sum of US$128,000,000.00 is still sitting in my Bank and the interest is being rolled over with the principal sum at the end of each year. No one will ever come forward to claim it. According to Laws of Republic of China, at the expiration of 5 (five) years, the money will revert to the ownership of the Chinese Government if nobody applies to claim the fund. Consequently, my proposal is that I will like you as a foreigner to stand in as the next of kin to the deceased consultant so that the fruits of this old man’s labor will not get into the hands of some corrupt government officials. This is simple, I will like you to provide immediately your full names and address so that the attorney will prepare the necessary documents and affidavits that will put you in place as the next of kin. We shall employ the services of an attorney for drafting and notarization of the WILL and to obtain the necessary documents and letter of probate/administration in your favor for the transfer. A bank account in any part of the world that you will provide will then facilitate the transfer of this money to you as the beneficiary/next of kin. The money will be paid into your account for us to share in the ratio of 90% for me and 10% for you.We can recommend a Luxembourg bank where that can contact you if we send your email to them as regards opening an online account with them. There is no risk at all as all the paperwork for this transaction will be done by the attorney and my position as the Bank Official guarantees the  successful execution of this transaction. If you are interested, please reply immediately via the private email address above. Upon your response,I shall then provide you with more details and relevant documents that will help you understand the transaction. Please send me your confidential telephone and fax numbers for easy communication. Please observe utmostconfidentiality, and rest assured that this transaction would be most profitable for both of us because I shall require your assistance to invest my share in your country. Awaiting your urgent reply via my email address.
Thanks and regards.

Mr.Lo Ping Wing

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Here’s an example of a phishiing email sent by WellsFargo.  For more information on phishing, visit this page.

The Fraud Email is in Italics Below:

Dear WellsFargo Customers Upgrade 2006

Due to concerns, for the safety and integrity of the wellsfargo
account we have issued this warning message.

It has come to our attention that your WellsFargo account information needs to be
updated as part of our continuing commitment to protect your account in this year 2006 and to
reduce the instance of fraud on our website. If you could please take 5-10 minutes
out of your online experience and update your personal records you will not run into
any future problems with the online service.

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This is more of a reminder to myself then anything, but I’d also like to feel out if there are any “takers” on this topic.

If anyone is interested in how a spammer can verify your existence, please remind me one day to elaborate on how you can give you identity away through something as simple as opening an email.

For now, I will leave this topic alone – if anyone is interested, just post a comment and I will be sure to write about this fun little tactic spammers use in the future!

Or maybe I will just write about it when I’m not so lazy

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If his client was a successful and an “accomplished family man”, why is he looking for an “extended relative” in a different country??  Maybe he was just a rich accomplished loaner that happened to have a wife, kids, but isolated them from everyone so that he could make millions as a writer under a pseodo name so that he would never have to leave his house except for the one day that the bombs went off and…  Nevermind.

Or maybe I’m just missing the whole point altogether.

Sample Fraud at it’s semi-finest – Enjoy

BERNARD CHAMBERS
305-307 Neasden Lane, Neasden
LONDON, NW10 1QR
Tel: +44-776-782-0633
Email:bernardmarissac@netscape.net

Compliments,
 
I know that this mail will come to you as a surprise, Please accept the content in good faith. I do not intend to cause any grief to you and your family. The reason for sending this mail is very fundamental to the doctrine of human privileges and right. My name is Barrister Bernard Marissa a legal practitioner with the Bernard Chambers based in London and the personal Attorney to late Mr. Richard, a national of your country who died along with his wife and two sons who died in the Tube explosion between King’s Cross-and Russell Square in London.
 

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It’s time for another round of sample email fraud!  If anyone has any other fraud emails they would like to have posted, just contact me and I will get them up as soon as posible with a full description.

In the meantime, here’s another one for your reading enjoyment!

From the Desk of:
Mr. Peter Ekeh

With great pleasure I Mr. Peter Ekeh, working with a bank here in Nigeria as a Manager. I am writing you in respect of a foreign customer (an Oil consultant/contractor with our National Oil & Liquidified Gas Sector) whom made a US$25M (Twenty five Million United States Dollars) depository for an investment program that has remained dormant for years now. Hence, I have decided to contact you due to the urgency of this transaction.

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If you’re wondering “how to make my computer boot up faster“, you really only need to look as far as what programs are starting up when you computer is turned on.

To make your computer boot up faster, you don’t have to wave a magic wand, or even hire an expensive tech.  Instead, you could learn a bit about the way programs start up in your computer and see if there is a way you could eliminate them from stating to make your computer boot up much faster.

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“If you forward this mail, you will be PAID MONEY!!!”  - Look familiar?

Do you often get emails claiming that when you forward it to your entire contact list you will somehow receive a cheque for each email sent?  Well, I’ve gotten a few and I just want to clear something up:

You will not get any money for sending an email to someone.  There is no way of tracking these emails and there is no way of knowing where the money can be sent to.  Please stop forwarding these lame emails.

One of the benefits of sending these emails to entire contact lists is that eventually, those email addresses will come to good use for a virus or spammer.  Yes – that’s right; believing that the email money fairy is going to miraculously appear in your house with a bag o’ cash won’t happen – but you might just make a virus’s day.

You see, some viruses that infect your PC (and some spyware) scan you computer for email addresses.  These lovely emails that you have been forwarding and receiving from your “pals” have tons of other email addresses in the CC line and the body.  When the virus scans them, it send itself out (replicates itself) to these anonymous victims in hopes that they will get infected, and basically follow the same routine on their system.

Another awesome thing that could happen is that spyware could scan your system for all of these email addresses, upload them to a spammer’s server somewhere for safe storage until they are ready to send out their next blast of spam.

So please, understand, unless Bill Gates is actually sitting in your house with a cheque book waiting for you to forward these emails – don’t waste other’s time with these silly emails.

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Once again, here’s a classic example of email fraud from our dear friend Susan Harrison-Justain (what a wonderful person! — [not])

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