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- FTC Seeks Public Comment on a Planned Consumer Fraud Survey
- FTC Warns Consumers to Exercise Caution When Selling a Timeshare Through a Reseller
- Public Relations Firm to Settle FTC Charges that It Advertised Clients' Gaming Apps Through Misleading Online Endorsements
- Floods in Pakistan: FTC Warns Consumers to Give Wisely
- FTC Sends Second Round of Redress Checks to Stewart Finance Victims
- FTC to Announce Action Against Internet Marketers of Acai Berry Weight-Loss Pills and "Colon Cleansers"
- FTC, State Attorneys General, Insurance Commissioners Crack Down on Bogus "Medical Discount Plans" Peddled to the Uninsured, Uninsurable, and Unemployed
- FTC Halts Cross Border Domain Name Registration Scam
- FTC, States to Host Press Conference Announcing Law Enforcement Sweep Targeting Fraudulently Marketed Medical Discount Plans
- FTC Warns Consumers to Beware of Pitfalls When Choosing Pre-paid Phone Cards
- National Do Not Call Registry Tops 200 Million Phone Numbers
- Deceptive Marketers Banned from Selling Mortgage Relief Services; One Defendant Ordered to Pay $11.5 Million
- Marketers of "Rapid Debt Reduction" Program To Pay $1.5 Million for Falsely Claiming They Could Lower Consumers' Interest Rates
- FTC, OECD Announce New Policymaking Guide To Help Consumer and Regulatory Authorities Around the World
- FTC to Host Roundtable Discussion on New OECD Publication: Consumer Policy Toolkit
- Fidelity National Financial Settles FTC Charges that its Acquisition of LandAmerica Subsidiaries Reduced Competition in Title Information Markets
- Dietary Supplement Maker to Pay $5.5 Million to Settle FTC False Advertising Charges
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TD Banknorth Phisher
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Banks, Media, Web
Tagged fraud, imitating a real bank, phishing email, scam, spam
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More on Webloyalty
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Subscription Scam, Web
Tagged fraud, ripoff report, scam, scams, Web, Webloyalty
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Does Dhl Courier deliver company have my parkage?
There seems to be no end to these spam YANL emails. Here’s yet another one from my Befactorial, MIKEBEAN or Mr Frank Bello in Poland, Mexico or Benin. Read it and laugh, but learn…it ain’t real – he just wants … Continue reading
Posted in Banks, Public Interest, Web, YANL
Tagged $125.00 Us Dollars, african film, bank, benin, Benin Republic, COPY OF YOUR PICTURE, Cotonou, Dear, Dhl Courier deliver company, dh_l95@yahoo.com.mx, HON FRANK BELLO, JERRY LEO & COUNSELORS AT LAW, mikebean1 Gazeta.pl, ONE MILLION AND FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATESDO, parkage, scam, scams, travelled, YANL
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DEAD BANK CUSTOMER: Free Money for ME!
FREE — FREE — FREE!!! Too good to be true, too good to be kept secret and too bad to ever be believed! If we were to write back to him I’d say something like this: Dear behekesibanda: Get real. … Continue reading
Posted in Banks, YANL
Tagged 100% risk free, 40%, ABSA BANK OF SOUTH AFRICA, bank, behekesibanda, behekesibanda1@yahoo.com, Benin plane crash, BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER, CEO/ MANAGER, chambers of commerce, Eighteen Million United States Dollars, Head of accounts, JOHANESBURG, joke, Lebanese, MR.BEHEKE SIBANDA, OFFSHORE CUSTOMER, release the money to you, scam, send me your private telephone and fax numbers, Tusk Arshard
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YANL-2
Here’s YANL from Feb 21, 2008. Oh what fun I would have with all that money, if it weren’t such an obvious fraud & scam. When will these people ever stop? I guess that as long as there is at … Continue reading
YANL- Yet Another Nigerian Letter
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 … Continue reading
The Nigerian Letter and Email
“This is a five billion dollar worldwide scam which has run since at least 1989 under successive Governments of Nigeria. It is also referred to as “Advance Fee Fraud” and “419 Fraud” after the relevant section of the Criminal Code … Continue reading
Posted in Media, Public Interest, Web
Tagged african scam, email scam, mail, nigeria, nigerian, nigerian advance fee 419 fraud, scam
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