Venditoris: Beware of Sellers & Scams

Below is an actual email letter. It’s short & sweet and aimed to trap an unwitting person into responding to a website other than a bank’s actual website.
We haven’t gone there, but are willing to believe that the phisher or scammer (probably both) has set up a web page to look very much like the [...]

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Here’s some more things we found on the Web about complaints and actions taken against WebLoyalty along with links to the various sources.
Remember, they cannot scam you without the help and support of either unknowing or uncaring co-scammers, the organizations that pass along your credit card information on their Web sites. You could avoid doing [...]

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The FBI’s Tips

If an “opportunity” appears too good to be true, it probably is.

Do not invest in anything unless you understand the deal. Con artists rely on complex transactions and faulty logic to “explain” fraudulent investment schemes.

Do not invest or attempt to “purchase” a “Letter of Credit.” Such investments simply do not [...]

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Here’s a variation on the Nigerian Letter Scheme. This is about the tenth one I have received over that past few months.
We are categorizing it as YANL (Yet Another Nigerian Letter), except it comes from the UK and has a slightly different twist to it. But it appears to be a similar type of scam. [...]

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How’s this for timeliness. Fast on the heels of the letter of Feb 19, comes the following missive apparently from a “World Class” Banker in Nigeria with lots of money to “give” away!
(Give me a break-it was not even addressed to me, but rather to the person sending it, how unique..er.. quaint..er..dumb!).
There are so [...]

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