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I’ve not seen this one before, but I’ve heard of it. Scammers set up a booth in a local mall that purports to be selling chances at winning fabulous prizes while raising money for a charity, but what they’re really selling are tickets to the poor house. Check it: As always it’s pays to be . . . → Read More: Watch out for the Scratch Card Scam. There’s been a lot of articles over on The Consumerist about ATM skimming, how it’s done, and how you can protect yourself. Today they linked to a clip from a UK show called The Real Hustle that lays out exactly how the scam is done. I’m not sure if the increase in the number of . . . → Read More: How ATM skimming is done. Who is Kevin Trudeau? He’s the “alternative medicine” slimeball who sells books full of miracle cures that the Powers That Be supposedly hope you’ll never find out about. With titles like Natural Cures “They” Don’t Want You to Know About and The Weight Loss Cure “They” Don’t Want You to Know About this asshole has . . . → Read More: The Contempt of Court judgment Kevin Trudeau Doesn’t Want You to Know About! There may be a new credit card scam making the rounds that involves very small charges to lots of people: Several Internet complaint boards are filled with comments from credit card customers from coast to coast who have noticed a mysterious charge for about 25 cents on their statements. The charge shows up on statements . . . → Read More: New scam to steal money from lots of people in very small amounts. Once a week for the past several weeks or so I’ve been getting phone calls on my cell that start with a recording telling me that my car warranty is about to expire and need to extend it before time runs out. My car’s warranty expired over 6 years ago so right off the bat . . . → Read More: Allied American Warranty refuses to take my number off of their list. I never got around to writing about it, but awhile back word was spreading on the blogs about an amazingly overpriced set of ethernet cables being put out by the folks at Denon that supposedly enhanced audio playback to such a degree that they were selling these cables for a mere $500. No, that’s not . . . → Read More: Best Amazon.com Customer Reviews page EVAR! Apparently they’re very credulous down in Argentina. Recently a bunch of teenagers sitting around on the street after dark in the town of General Guemes managed to catch a “gnome” on video using a camera phone before they freaked out like little babies and ran for their mommas. Really, you can see the video below: . . . → Read More: Gnomes Gone Wild! Every now and then someone asks me what harm there is in people believing in nonsense such as psychics and tarot cards. I just have to point them to news stories like this one: Pair charged in tarot card curse scheme – Boston.com NAPERVILLE, Ill.—Authorities say the owners of a suburban Chicago tarot-card reading business . . . → Read More: The credulous are ripe pickings for the unscrupulous. Today I received a second variation on the we’re-the-FBI-trying-to-help-you-get-money-for-free email scam. It seems the FBI is a popular organization with the scammers these days. Again I have to note with some amusement that the director of the FBI uses a YahooUK email address. This one takes a much more direct, threatening, and long-winded approach: From: . . . → Read More: SEB Mailbag: Second take on the FBI Nigerian email scam. The two email addresses I have through my websites, one associated with the SEB domain and one with Jenkins Online, attract a lot of spam and scam email every day. The ubiquitous Nigerian scam in all it’s myriad forms shows up almost daily and often on both email accounts within moments of each other, but . . . → Read More: SEB Mailbag: Interesting twist on the old Nigerian Email Scam. |
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