Tag: scam

Phishing Goes Phone

Posted onAuthorTruXter1 Comment

It seems there is a group that calls people and just says random names to them. usually the name is a first name that is audible and last name that is inaudible. The first name is a typical in relation to your location. Like people in the United States the name would be Brian or John, Dave, Tracy (names everyone knows). The last name you will never understand. Typically two syllables. You can mistake the last name because you are sure he has a bad accent so you think he is trying to say a word you know. ” I am calling on for Brian *mumble* ” . Of course you trying to be helpful you offer a last name of the most recent “Brian” you know. This person on the other end of the line will either ask you for their contact information and ask you for your name, or ask you for your name first and then tell you that they used you for a reference on a loan and you are now liable for the cost of the loan. If they go the other way, they call Brian and tell them that you got the loan and they are liable for the value of the loan. This scammer could be so bold as to try and sell you illegal medication or tell you that you got a loan (because everyone who is not in their country is a big fat pill taking loan getting sleeping on a waterbed driving flying cars fool) and they are from “Legal Officers” or “Law Firm” and that the police are in route to pick you up.

The phone call comes from a phone number that ends in 0000. When you call it back it says the number has been disconnected. This is a clear sign it is a scam. If you are one of the few who get a voicemail, they always leave a call back number that is different from initiating call. Save that phone number, save that voicemail.

Some people get scared by this and give up their credit card information over the phone (as far as they know this person knew to much to be a scam). They victim gets their bank account wiped out in it’s entirety. Credit ran into the dirt leaving the person stripped of everything they have earned. Simply because they doubt this could ever be a scam.

Some say your best action is to not take action. some say it is best to tell them they have the wrong number and have been mislead. I myself found it funnier to say ” Wow what are the odds? I am a federal agent who has been investigating your group for the past 4 months and you guys actually called me on the company line making this completely and entirely traceable. In fact I have just now (waited 3 seconds) pinpointed your exact location, the trucks should be rolling in within the next 30 minutes” . The voice on the line said something in a language I have no understanding of, to someone who was in the room with him as he hung up the phone. He never called back.

It is probably the best legal idea to call your local authorities and give them what ever call back number they may have left on your voicemail or any information that shows them as claiming to be a debt collector, or some collector of any sort. This is a phishing scam and is illegal in every country. If you can give this voicemail to the local authorities and let them handle any legal issues of this type of rip off, you would probably have better response just for them hearing this. It is illegal to threaten you in any way shape or manor. You can not threaten a person of arrest unless your legal proof is present, such as badge or twenty cops standing around you at the time. Passing on a call back number would be very helpful.

Never threaten the guy on the line, never tell him or her (usually a guy) that what he/she is doing is phishing or a scam. Bring the phone call to an end. If you can tell them you are at work and will call them at lunch time and need a call back number. That phone number will be the end of them. It is hard to bust phone scammers and they are well practiced. so tell them you are in an important meeting at work and will have to call them back after work or at lunch time. If they call back do not answer the phone. There may just be to much in your voice that let’s them know their phone phishing scam is at risk.

Report all phone phishing scam phone numbers you receive  to this full list.

Phone Phishing . Info

United States Federal Trade commission

Australia Numbers to report scams to

United Kingdom numbers to report Phone scams

Report phone scams in Germany

Report phone Phishing scams in Canada

a List for every Country

Happy hunting.

Brilliant spam – Sandra Sellers

Posted onAuthorTruXter10 Comments

Cool spam, I have no idea how they got my email.
Seems they are getting more and more creative these days.

On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 7:38 PM, wrote:

Dear webmaster,

We, in Ontime-Ads, are glad to offer you payment on behalf of one of our clients for the publication of a small advertisement on genius geeks.com.
We would like to inform you that we are using a few advertising methods according to the selected website.
While reviewing your website I thought of a great way to advertise on geniusgeeks.com so it will fit it perfectly.

For full details please contact me at sandra.sellers@ontime-ads.com.

*If you have other websites which I can review for advertising please send me their URLs as well.

Regards,
Sandra Sellers
Advertising Specialist
sandra . sellers @ ontime-ads.com

To permanently delete yourself from our list, simply reply to this with a blank email and you will never receive any communication from us in the future.

My response
I don’t know what site you are talking about, and genius geeks has no idea who you are…. your website is nonexistent so. You are a troll and will be posted about online.

I really didn’t talk to the people on geniusgeeks I just stopped by their site and well from the looks of it. They have no reason to advertise me on their site.

For now I will mark this as spam. I am not saying they are spam, I will just shove it in the spam pile till they prove otherwise.

If you can not tell by my post. I do not recommend you use their service. I do not recommend you do not use their service. I do say that it is probably in my best interest if I stay away from them.

If you know anything, please respond.

**Follow up**
Upon Further investigation
There are no records of a Sandra Sellers at any advertising company I could locate.
I see that no one has complained from being ripped off, simply because the scam
is so obvious. It would be in your best interest to get proof of validity.
and it would be in your best interest to not respond to Sandra Seller emails.
AT ALL!
If anyone can post the originating i.p. address of this email from Sandra Sellers
or trace route results, it would be much appreciated.

So do you think the Sandra Sellers on time ads is a scam?

What is a Phishing Scam

Posted onAuthorComputer Tweaker1 Comment

In short, it’s someone who contacts you pretending to be someone else, disguised as well as possible into fooling you into believing this. They will use mail,email phone call, or direct face to face contact. in an email they will make a fake website that looks just like your bank’s website. They will send you an email to their website and the email will look like it came from your bank, they will say “hurry we need you to sign in and change your personal information because we think you have been compromised” or they will tell you to just send them your information. next thing you know, you are out of money and in debt.

This video belongs to another person I liked it so I embedded it. It gets to the point

Is Ebay Gone Yet ?

Posted onAuthorTech News

Did you ever get a PayPal account ? Buy much of anything on Ebay ? Got charged for doing the express pay and the guy collecting at the other end got charged to receive the  payment, Meanwhile the person selling the item had to pay for holding the auction. In one year, It was 04 or 05 when I last cared to hold an auction on eBay, but in that one year I got 3 notices of price raises and a free three days to hold an auction. See the issue is, they make plenty of money buy us paying for the auction, and the  7 percent (if it’s still that low, I doubt it) to sell out items using their bandwidth) to make plenty of money buy just maintaining the servers, but no, they keep trying to come up with ways to collect more money  from what they already offer.

What two months ago Ebay blamed social networks on their downfall. Really?  a social site?? The only way a social site can cause an issue with a a company is the freedom of speech. What I mean by that is, telling everyone how you got done wrong. Well dang the ability to speak your mind. Others blame it on a weakening economy. Yes it’s the fact that we do not want to give up our physical possessions that we earned and once put our hands on in trade for 7% or more fees to sell on a network full of people who have mastered the system of gaming that site.

If it was not for the over price auction and every fee they can tax to the system, it would be because the 50/50 chance of getting hit by a scammer. you auction off your item and some guy wins at a nice hefty price you ship the item, eBay contacts you and says “wait payment is not complete and has been reversed due to A STOLEN ACCOUNT” …. ehh crap. Meanwhile the scammer sends out hundreds of emails from fake email accounts like  emailer1.ebay@yahoo.com   and the emails look like legit eBay emails saying ” Item paid for you must ship item now” . Go to your PayPal account and see the money was reversed and you never received, then you get fake PayPal emails Confirming the item was paid for.

How the person won the auction was to bid $40000000 over the actual value of the item assuring no one will win but him/her. Basically killed your chance to get money for what you earned, then  to complete the screwing, tries to steal the item from you.

If you get scammed and fall for anything from an eBay scammer you are at a 80% chance of eBay saying ” there is nothing we can do about this at this time but we are looking into it” .. Great.

See for a place that actually has very little to offer, no 100% assurance, they sure do keep raising their prices a whole lot.

Oh for a heads up.

Never ever buy a car remote from eBay.   You get the remote, you set your car to match it, he just mailed it to you so he has your home address and the matching remote.. 20 bucks and a car for  $45 worth of gas.. Nice.

Phishing For Suckers

Posted onAuthorTruXter

 Ok I got junk mail from a scammer, So I decided to share
this with you. I advise that you do not respond to this
trash in any way shape or form. I surely will not. I hope
you see that I am posting this so you can see a type of
phishing scam that comes up all the time. Never ever do
what they ask, this is total crap. If you have ever
fallen for this scam or one of it's kind Please post here.
I really want to know that you exist.








"Hello Dear Friend,

Your name and e-mail address came up in a random draw conducted by
our law firm, (Adetokunbo & Co. Law Chambers.) in Lagos , Nigeria . I
am Barrister Adetokunbo Kayode (Esq), the legal adviser and counsel
to a deceased expatriate contractor,who used to work with
Chevron/Texaco Nigeria Limited here in Nigeria thereafter shall be
referred as my late client. On the 27th of January 2002, my client,
his wife and their three children were involved in Ikeja bomb blast
here in my country. Hence I contacted you.

Please view these websites below to confirm what I am telling you.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/2718295.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/2698081.stm

I have contacted you to assist me in repatriating the money and
property left behind by my client before they get confiscated or
declared unserviceable where these huge deposits were lodged.
Particularly, where my client deposited US$3.7Million Dollars. I was
issued a notice to provide the next of kin or have the account
confiscated within two weeks. All I require is your honest co-
operations to enable us see this deal through.

You should send to my private email address  adetokunbo44@gmail.com
Your full names: -
Your private phone number/ fax (if any): -
Your age: -
Your occupation: -
Your home address: -

I am particularly interested in securing this money from the bank,
because they have issued a notice instructing us to produce the
beneficiary of this will within two weeks or else the money will be
credited to the government treasury as per law here. It is my utmost
desire to execute the will of our late client in your favor and
therefore, you are required to contact me immediately to start the
process of sending this money to any or your designated official
account, I urge you to contact me immediately for further details
bearing in mind that the bank has given us a date limit.

Regards,
Adetounko Kayode (Esq)."






Oh, I did report this as phishing to my email carrier.

									

			
			
		

	



			
				


	

		
		

			

				
Phishing returns to its roots


				
					
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In one day i get three letters saying that my bank account was shut down, from a bank that has nothing to do with me. I got another from a warranty company that I have never heard of. i mean I had to read the whole dang thing to even see that it  states a companies name, once, in a middle paragraph. And of course the be all end was “lost money”. Some company or cpa or what ever claims they have located lost money for me. i did a search for that person saw they where under investigation since 2005.


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Phone Phishing


				
					
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As I have looked over the internet I see other people experiencing the same thing there is a phone number popping up


877-545-1392  as the number from the person who is calling. The person who calls, claims to be from ADT security. This person asks if they can get credit card numbers and bank account numbers and  home address and pass code to the security box so they can dissable the alarm from the main office and update software and or trouble shoot the issue.


I suggest you give them no information. I mean from what they are asking, they want to clean out your bank account, max out your credit card and rob your house, and god forbid you be home when they break in. If you are home you will not only be broke and in debt, you will be dead.


Well I decide to call the real ADT today, and guess what I get on the phone?.


Good ol “Jeff”. the boy sounded stoned and burned up from a bad day of calls. Nothing meant anything to him and he called me paranoid.  Paranoid? I mean his job circles around paranoid people WTF! I mean yeah it’s good to protect your stuff and alarms save lives.


Well I left him the number anyway. But these dirt bags are burning up my T-mobile minutes .


Makes me wanna scream “HEY DILDO YOU AIN’T IN MY FAVE FIVES!”

									

			
			
		

	



			
				


	

		
		

			

				
is digg.com rigged?


				
					
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Have you ever noticed that the same people keep getting the highest diggs?


Have you wondered why? or how they always do? have you wondered why your submissions never even get noticed? I know that I have. On a few occasions I have submitted stuff beforeanyone else and only got like one digg, then flamed to hell and noticed that someone else submitted the same story after me and pulled well over 1000 diggs. Why is that? Do you do follow up later to see what is going on?


See I go to the photos sections.


And, well, I notice something. That only certain people get butt loads of diggs. Is it that people will only digg something from someone if they see they already have a bunch of diggs? is it that people will only digg something if they know that everyone else already thinks it is cool? I mean is that what it takes to be cooler? is to be cool already?


I just wonder if this is a simple advertisement scam. I mean not all of it has to be a direct advertisement, but I would bet that more than 90% are in some shape or form, just a scam to advertise either the content directly mentioned in the post, or something within the page that is linked from the digg post. If a post is dugg 2000+ times, do you know everyone that has dugg that post? do any of the names look familiar? Have you read the responses in there? Are the posts automated? What percentage of the voted actually posts?