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What are some common ways of identifying scams that take place in either email, or in banners and advertisements on popular websites? How do we determine is something is real or not?
This is intended for "The Moms." So keep it as non-technical as possible...
Started by Jonathan Sampson on
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by 11 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
Check Google blog:
How to steer clear of money scams
Have you only heard about it online? if "yes" then it's probably a scam....
It will, in most cases, tell you immediately if the email has been confirmed as a scam.
Of information.
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How can you prevent "referral scams"?
For example, in a wordpress-based site of mine, I suddenly noticed that someone clicked a link from some site I had never heard of. When I followed the link, there was obviously not a link to MY site. The site was...
Started by Cyclone on
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by 3 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
But as a rule anyone who uses a bot to deliberately create this type of spam will change the User-Agent string... .
You can reduce it by doing as Chris suggested.
There is no way to control what referrer people send to you .
As an answer I am afraid you can't.
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419 (Nigerian) advance fee fraud scams and related scams Who hates 419 (Nigerian) advance fee fraud scams?
I sure do!
If you see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/419_scam or http://www.419eater.com/html/419faq.htm , you will learn about an all-too common ...
Started by Vicman on
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by 7 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at dallasmetropolis):
Johnduffell writes....
She claimed she didn't realize it was a scam, but obviously did as she decided to go shopping of 419 scams at the moment, including a report from the BBC of a baiter who managed to get $80
from the breast-friends dept.
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Ask your Facebook Friends
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Known Supra Related Scams!! Post links to all known scams relating to Supras in this thread ONLY!! This is not a discussion thread. Please only post links to known scams or suspected scams. If you post a link or thread concerning a scam outside this thread...
Started by Alaskan on
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by 16 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at supraforums):
What scam, they dont even try to....
Says auto but it is a six speed.
Will let people see the car" http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/e...469552&rd=1 Another Scam? http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...475799141&rd=1
Must be a scam.
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Started by S_Reporters on
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by 1 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at afternysc):
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I frequently get emails like the one below. I assume they're a scam, but I don't know how the scam works.
Dear manager,
We are a professional Internet consultant organization in Asia, which mainly deal with the global companies’ domain name registration...
Started by Roddy on
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by 5 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault):
The aim of these emails is to try and scare you into buying... .
I would think that they'd offer to return the registration to you or extract compensation for an up-front fee and then you'd never hear from them again .
I think you're adopting the best approach.
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How do i report scams? I've gotten three e-mails from different property inquires within two days. They all seem like scams. How can i report these people? Two of these listings were on Turlia.com. One listing was on Zillow.com. I will list them below...
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at trulia):
I just found this scam ....
SCAM #3 From : ronaldadreyfus@yahoo.com Hello, Thanks for your email and interest in renting my scam response today: Hello , How are you doing today?Thanks for the email and interested in renting sites too.
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Hello,
I have been receiving emails regarding online dating scams on my site. I tried to use anti-scam on CP to disable access for some countries from CP and block IP, but I was not very successful. Members from IPs of 41 or 196 still register using Proxy...
Started by tadisaus2 on
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by 10 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at vldpersonals):
I've had these scammers attempting....
The only effective way is to closely monitor who is signing up and what they do - including checking IP numbers against the city/country they claim to be in .
Just enable credits to send messages, Scammers will never pay .
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One poster's signature read: "beware of scams in thailand"
There is a website that lists scams to beware of.
It would be cool if people could share their 'being scammed' experiences .
Alternatively, if you are into scamming yourself: how not to fall in...
Started by wanitto on
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by 8 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at lonelyplanet):
Another note Scams though - it's an awful website....
It cleary lays out the top ten scams most visitors are ever likely didn't help) and as soon as we left the city we smartened up and had a great scam-free time.
Lead it directly to this.
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Apologies if this has been posted many times before, but I had a search for this scam yesterday and found no results, and searched today and found an one (from this site) so I thought I would amalgamate all the points into one thread.
After contacting...
Started by MrReesh on
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by 10 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at moneysavingexpert):
Just to say this scam is still alive, just had the same person trying the same ....
This scam is still being used on gumtree ive just' as an entity have no idea of the scale of the problem.
Isn't coming over with cash - find another seller.
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