The Federal Trade Commission and other U.S. law enforcement agencies have partnered with Jamaican authorities to share informaiton, investigators and complaint data to crack down fraudulent telemarketing operations in Jamaica. The telemarketing operations involve Jamaica-based telemarketing scammers who pose as lawyers, customs officials or lottery representatives and target U.S. residents with phony promises of sweepstakes [...]
Facebook and get-rich-quick ads, reloaded
April 12, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Economic stimulus scams, downunder
March 20, 2009 By Leave a Comment
A few weeks after the announcement of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd of an economic stimulus package includes a payment of a maximum $900 bonus to taxpayers, a warning was issued by Australia’s Tax Commissioner as follows: Tax Office warns of tax bonus payment scams The Tax Office has repeated its warning to be cautious about [...]
Facebook still displaying get-rich-quick scam ads
March 19, 2009 By 1 Comment
Despite claims by Facebook that the get-rich-quick ads running on the social network site in February had been pulled out, Facebook members report that the ads still display on the social networking website’s members’ profile pages. A quick check today showed for example this ad, Make $500 Daily Online, which when clicked leads to a so-called “got green” website [...]
FTC warns about economic stimulus scams
March 11, 2009 By 2 Comments
With the seemingly deepening global economic crisis, all types of scams have come out lately. Some few weeks ago, scam ads had been reported as running on Facebook pages. Now, the economic stimulus scams. The Federal Trade Commission has has recently warned consumers that they could get stung by an economic stimulus scam which may [...]
ID theft on the rise again
March 9, 2009 By 1 Comment
Please i am in a Critical situation right now which i will need your urgent response,Actually, I had a trip to United Kindom but unfortunately for me all my money got stolen in the hotel where i lodged due to a robbery incident that happened in the hotel.I had been so restless since last night cos i have been without any money i am even oweing the hotel here as well moreover the Hotel’s telephone lines here got dissconnected [...]
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