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Monday, 13 October 2008 11:06 pm

Dell phishing scam

Monday, 9 June 2008  

I received this email, claiming to be from Dell, and offering to give me a free laptop, just for answering a short survey:

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The scams are getting dumber

Monday, 12 May 2008  

Some knuckleheads from the other side of the world tried scamming me (along with a few million other people) a couple of weeks ago.

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More dodgy deals on Ebay

Monday, 7 April 2008  

Quite a while back I outlined from personal experience one way dodgy sellers continue to scam buyers on Ebay. Well here’s another one, except even the Ebay support people can’t explain how this particular scam works.

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Scamming the scammers

Monday, 17 December 2007  

Warning: This post contains concepts and phraseology which may be offensive to some of our readers.

A few weeks ago I got a lovely email from an aspiring Russian bride who wanted to get to “know” me, so to speak. Even though her return address was in Mexico, her sincerity was truly touching:

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We sell America for the ruble!

Tuesday, 13 November 2007  

I’ve been copping a spate of Cyrillic spam in the last few weeks, which my mailfilter has been happily dumping into the garbage, where it belongs. Here’s a recent example:

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