National Consumer League Lists 'Top 10 Scams' of 2011
LoanSafe
The phony prize scam usually asks the victim to send a payment to claim a prize that never shows up, the league says. It accounts for 26.98% of all scams and 49.69% of telemarketing scams. On the list of top Internet scams, phony prizes rank third ...
Group names Top 10 scams of 2011OCRegister

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Dixie Press Online
Email promises lottery winnings contingent on fees
Dixie Press Online
I know this sounds like a scam to me but if it is real I do not want to ignore it. So I ask have you heard any reports of this as fraud? I have looked on the net (And Snopes.com) but found nothing.” Your specific email scenario would be difficult to ...

Your personal and financial information is at stake
AARP News
... don't expect job scams — among the most common cons in recent years — to end anytime soon. For months, the number of fake job advertisements has quietly increased on employment websites. Recently, the fraudsters have turned to the Internet's ...

Telemarketing calls top list of consumer complaints
Fond du Lac Reporter
Klein said scams involving a "prize fee" are quite common. In a letter, phone call or email, the recipient is informed that he or she won money. But in order to receive the prize, they need to pay a fee. If they pay it, the scammer walks away with the ...

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Impostor landlords fake rental housing
The Salinas Californian
The scammers often use the Internet to cash in, first to find real rentals to mimic and then offer for rent. Later, the Internet is the vehicle used to traffic the fraud. The Internet also makes the short-term vacation rental market vulnerable to the ...

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BBB: Resolutions for savvy consumers
Jackson Sun
I'll ask myself why a company in some other state or country that I found on the Internet will lend me money when a local lender won't. Even if I'm desperate, I won't fall for this common scam that requires me to pay a fee before I get my loan (which ...

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Group names 'Top 10 Scams' of 2011
OCRegister
By JAN NORMAN / THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER Phony sweepstakes and bogus prizes were the top scams of 2011, reports the National Consumer League. Click on the photo above to see details of the top 10 Internet and telemarketing scams of the year.

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Telemarketing calls top list of complaints
Fond du Lac Reporter
Klein said scams involving a "prize fee" are quite common. In a letter, phone call or email, the recipient is informed that he or she won money. But in order to receive the prize, they need to pay a fee. If they pay it, the scammer walks away with the ...

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Team recovers N151b embezzled pension funds
Information Nigeria
According to him, if such monumental fraud could be going on at the Head of Service Office alone, then the overall amount of fraud that would be taking place in other pension offices nationwide would be monumental, noting that there were 42 pension ...

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Osun Defender
Why EFCC Is Delaying Prosecution Of Fuel Subsidy Fraudsters – Investigation
Leadership Newspapers
... Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and others, pending the conclusion of the committee's probe. LEADERSHIP gathered that the EFCC, in order to avoid duplication of enquiry into the scam, may adopt the final report and recommendations of ...
JONATHAN'S OIL SCAM!!!Osun Defender

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Was Your Email Account Hacked? PwnedList Can Tell You
PCWorld
By Alex Wawro, PCWorld If you have an account with a company whose servers have been hacked, it's nerve-wracking to wonder whether or not your private data has been leaked onto the Internet. Thankfully, a new Web service seeks to aggregate all the ...

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Ink Out Loud: Drug dealers among us
Lake County Record-Bee
By Mandy Feder -- So many of my friends, family members, business contacts and acquaintances are drug dealers, get-rich-quick peddlers and scam artists, or so it seems. The thing is I am not into drugs. When I think of get-rich-quick schemes, ...

BBC News
Sham marriages: Nigerians jailed in UK
The Nation Newspaper
By Kolade Adeyemi, Kano 18 hours 23 minutes ago No fewer than 10 foreign nationals, many of them Nigerians have been jailed in the United Kingdom (UK) over alleged involvement in sham marriage scam. They were found guilty of trying to organize an ...
Plastic wedding rings used in Nottingham sham marriagesBBC News
Ten jailed for Nottingham churches' sham marriage conspiracyThis is Nottingham

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Neustar Reports Results for Fourth Quarter and Full-Year 2011
EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)
Registry Services increased $1.4 million due to the number of common short codes under management, and Internet Infrastructure Services revenue increased $1.2 million due to the expansion of DNS solutions, including IP geolocation services; ...

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Neustar Reports Results for Fourth Quarter and Full-Year 2011
MarketWatch (press release)
Registry Services increased $1.4 million due to the number of common short codes under management, and Internet Infrastructure Services revenue increased $1.2 million due to the expansion of DNS solutions, including IP geolocation services; ...

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How to Spot and Avoid Email Scams that Target Lawyers By Bob Luttrell
JD Supra (press release)
One of the perpetrators was eventually extradited to Nigeria this year. Such scams have a long history. Early versions would involve letters or emails making simple claims such as, “I have a lot of money that I need to get out of my country.

BBC News
Ten jailed for Nottingham churches' sham marriage conspiracy
This is Nottingham
"Unlike the other Nigerians who pleaded guilty and were sentenced before, you as partner to Phillips Onikoyi have been closer to his activities and slightly more involved than they." The scam came to light after UK Border Agency officers stopped a ...
Plastic wedding rings used in Nottingham sham marriagesBBC News

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Death threat email labelled a scam
Star Canterbury
Constable Chris Caldwell said it was the first time he had seen the email doing the rounds but it was similar to previous Nigerian scams, aside from the death threat. He said the first person who reported the email sounded "a wee bit concerned", ...

Russian Women Online Dating Culture Checks and Blacklists Reviews Can be Found ...
SBWire (press release)
Milwaukee, WI -- (SBWIRE) -- 02/02/2012 -- It is common for Russian scammers to pretend to be beautiful Russian females on on-line dating websites. Because of this, GetRussianWife.com has actually started a web pages committed to fighting from Russian ...

Judge drops computer restriction for Lusk man convicted of fraud
Casper Star-Tribune Online
Freudenthal sentenced Sunday in February 2011 after a jury found him guilty of one count of bank fraud and three counts of issuing counterfeit securities after he became involved in a Nigerian money scam. His five-year supervised release conditions ...

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