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Scambaiting at its finest: Tricking Nigerian scammers into rewriting an entire Harry Potter book by hand

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2008-01-16 14:55:52 by Doug Aamoth in CrunchGear
...Scammers [419 Eater] via Neatorama ShareThis
 
 
 
 
 
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Office of Fair Trading scams to warn of scammers

2008-02-19 10:50:00 by Editor in Shiny Shiny
 
What's the best way to warn people about SMS scammers? According to the UK Office of Fair Trading, it's behaving like one. The OFT sent out text messages on the 15th of February saying "Urgent! U may have won 1k cash with '2 Good 2 B True'." These were followed up later with a second text explaining the scam
 
 
 
 
 
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Vonage Email Phishing Scam

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2008-10-13 10:42:49 by Editor in VoIP & Gadgets Blog
...scammers starts targeting them. Unfortunately, the scammers, like many scammers, have poor English skills making their poorly written emails a dead giveaway Let me give the scammers some tips for the future Spell October correctly. It's not Octomber This is not grammatically correct (wrong tense) - "You did not accessed your account for...
 
 
 
 
 
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Microsoft, Yahoo!, Western Union and African Development Bank Announce Coalition to Combat Internet Lottery Scams

2008-10-29 21:31:04 by Maximus in Just Another Mobile Phone Blog
 
...scammers will step up their activity to take advantage of people concerned with or affected by the global economic downturn. Speaking at the 6th German Anti Spam Summit, Tim Cranton, associate general counsel for Worldwide Internet Safety Programs at Microsoft, said, "This online threat differs from those that try to exploit software code or...
 
 
 
 
 
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New Nigerian Scam switches from riches to violence; we cite evolution

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2008-02-11 08:08:09 by Matt Hickey in CrunchGear
...scammers have evolved from the carrot to the stick. It used to be that youd get a few emails from Miss Chandry Ngete, With You In Christ (it fits on Nigerian drivers licenses) stating that there were several million dollars with your name on it if these totally royal and trustworthy people were allowed to borrow your bank account What could...
 
 
 
 
 
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OLPC has joined Microsoft XP!

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2008-06-01 15:27:26 by max in zedomax.com
...scammers Microsoft has joined forces with the developers of the $100 laptop to make Windows available on the machines The move was prompted by countries which demanded the operating system before placing an order Trials of laptops loaded with Windows will begin in four to five countries from June, the organisations said The founder of One...
 
 
 
 
 
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Teh.Be$T.Kommenter.Evar

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2008-01-17 06:13:05 by Doug Aamoth in CrunchGear
...scammers into rewriting an entire Harry Potter book by hand Marky P Dude is this news? This was like posted about 2 years ago on that 419 eater website? Jeez. Talk about lazy journalism Philips Touchscreen Message Board LardFlerLes Hi nto All I am only looking for information,that is most popular about anything,but only legal and not adult...
 
 
 
 
 
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When Scanner Comes To Town (call it "Love")

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2008-02-23 13:01:00 by bookofjoe in bookofjoe
...scammers No, joe, that's not it Oh, yeah my love affair with my new scanner It's the Canon CanoScan LiDE 600F (below I went to Apple's website to see which scanners were there, knowing they would play well with my Macs There were four listed: a Canon for $100, the one I bought ($150 at the Apple store), some HP number for $300 and a Fujitsu...
 
 
 
 
 
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Botnet A Sleeping bionic hacker network

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2008-03-21 07:09:36 by HASH0x84732c4 in Newlaunches.com
...scammers enticed bank customers to click on a link purportedly to download an updated digital certificate, the equivalent of a digital ID card. Instead, Zbot installed a program that positioned it to come along for the ride the next time the user successfully accessed the account. Zbot then automatically executed cash transfers to other...