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Scammers that defrauded UK Inland Revenue of £8m get 40 years in prison

July 5, 2010 - 7:10am | Fraud | News
Scammers that defrauded UK Inland Revenue of £8m get 40 years in prison

Ukrainian scammers that acted as a gang to defraud the UK Board of Inland Revenue of 8 million ponds have been sentenced to a total of 40 years in prison last week. The gang created thousands of fake identities and then used them to claim tax rebates from the Inland Revenue. In total they submitted 1,600 online self-assessment tax returns and claimed £8m in rebates.


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Scammers call victims over the phone to lure into installing fake antivirus

July 5, 2010 - 5:44am | Fraud | News
Scammers call victims over the phone to lure into installing fake antivirus

Over the past time the number of telephone scams aimed at persuading unwitting users to install rogue anti-virus software has rapidly increased in the UK. People are receiving warnings over the phone that their PCs are riddled with malware that can be purged with just a few clicks directed by the person on the other end. At the end of last week antivirus provider Eset UK, citing an increase in the calls, warned computer users to remain vigilant.


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Doctor Who fans are targeted by scammers

June 25, 2010 - 9:13am | Fraud | News
Doctor Who fans are targeted by scammers

Scammers are exploiting interest in the season finale of Doctor Who by posting fake episode clips, spoilers and dubious download offers.

The fans, who occurred to follow links supposedly offering footage from the upcoming Big Bang episode, due to screen on BBC this Saturday, are offered to fill out a quiz in order to "unlock the content". Completing this quiz fans will simply wind up scoring the scammers some affiliate revenue, while handing over personal information to unscrupulous marketeers.


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RAM scammers became "fairly new" threat

December 9, 2009 - 6:04am | Fraud | News
RAM scammers became "fairly new" threat

As the security research company report released Wednesday, RAM scrapers comb the random access memory of POS, or point-of-sale, terminals, where PINs and other credit card data must be stored in the clear so it can be processed. Thus, when valuable information passes through, it is uploaded to servers controlled by credit card thieves.


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Prosecutors in Israel insist on extraditing lottery scammers to the US

July 23, 2009 - 2:18pm | Fraud | News
Prosecutors in Israel insist on extraditing lottery scammers to the US

On Thursday prosecutors in Israel applied for court approval to extradite 11 people wanted in the United States on charges of running a telemarketing fraud that bilked elderly victims out of more than $25 million. On Tuesday a district court in Manhattan disclosed criminal indictments accusing 12 people of defrauding victims in the US by falsely reporting them that they had won an international lottery.


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Beware of online job scams

February 26, 2009 - 3:12pm | Articles | Fraud
Beware of online job scams

In these tough economic times, many of us are looking for work to make ends meet. The Internet is great global marketplace for different types of work which can be done at home: freelance writing, editing, data entry, blogging, forum posting, home-based call center, and a lot more. Isn’t it great – to avoid office environment and wear your pajamas as a uniform? 


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15dailypay pending pay

December 16, 2008 - 5:06am | Investment industry | News
15dailypay pending pay

There is nothing else members could do than accepting lost they made in an autosurf program which called 15dailypay. This program was started in August 9th and had offered a plan which was 8% daily for 15 days. According to members, their pay outs have been pending since middle of September. And the admin had promised to refund the members who were not in profit as his update on September 28th which as follow:


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Club2profits waiting for no profits

December 15, 2008 - 11:02pm | Investment industry | News
Club2profits waiting for no profits

Obviously this scammer who ran an investment game program which called club 2 profits has had an intention to scam people’s money and the excuses and fake promises that he gave just to delay the victims from filing complaints and reports to the authorities.

As stated on the website, he would resume pay out in September and completed all the pending by end of November. The statements as follow:


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Quantuminv poor quality

November 14, 2008 - 4:27am | Investment industry | News
Quantuminv poor quality

There is no more hope for members especially those who have had deposited big amounts of dollars to receive big pay outs as the admin of this investment game program which called quantuminv pays selectively since in middle of last month.


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