Fraudsters are hijacking Facebook accounts to send bogus “invites” to win an Apple iPad. But the only thing that will earn you is an scam invitation to be harassed by spammers and telemarketers.
Today, I received an invitation to an “Free! iPad! Event!” allegedly from someone in my Facebook friends list.
That Facebook invite links to an [...]
More and more iTunes users have been reporting fraud activity on their Apple iTune accounts, reporting hundreds or even thousands of dollars worth of bogus purchases. With the reports of this type of fraud on the uptick in recent weeks, many users have been quick to blame Apple or PayPal, since many of the affected [...]
New data suggests that mortgage fraud – which got tougher to scam consumers after the collapse of the U.S. real estate market is returning in a big way.
Data prepared for The Wall Street Journal by research firm CoreLogic, examining about seven million home loans made by hundreds of lenders, show that losses from mortgage fraud, [...]
With the economic downturn many people have seen their finances and credit scores go south. A poor credit score can make it hard to rent an apartment or do any number of things essential to daily living. So an online advertisement offering a credit protection number (CPN) to clean up your credit score may sound [...]
A “Dislike” button is the latest in a string of fraud scams circulating on the social networking site. It purports to offer users a way to express their aversion to links, videos and other annoying content posted by friends on Facebook, as an alternative to giving a thumbs up with Facebook’s “Like” button. To get [...]
Hundreds of online businesses are finding inactive Social Security numbers online –most of which are assigned to children under 18 who have not started using them – and selling them under different names to help people establish fake credit. The scheme may lead to significant debts that might be almost impossible to pay off.
Which leaves [...]
Hawaiian Airlines warned consumers on Thursday about fraudulent vouchers being sold on Craigslist and 808 Classifieds that were purchased using stolen credit cards.
“We want to alert consumers to this scam because we’ve become aware of someone selling travel vouchers and using other people’s credit card information to book tickets on Hawaiian and other carriers — [...]
Eventually, authorities found a wealth of information, and thousands of dollars in bad checks – that led to an 8-member identity theft ring.
Police have charged six people. 2 of them had worked at Bank of America and Wachovia.
The charges come after investigators with Gwinnett police’s electronic and financial crimes unit began looking into several [...]
Another fraudulent email going around by scammers. They are now trying to get you to login into a fake page to see the updates they made to their online software.
Example Email:
Note: scammers could use ANY bank name to trick you.
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From: PNC Bank Support Center [mailto:pinaclesupport@pnc.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2010 9:50 AM
To: Your email address [...]
Innovative Marketing Ukraine (IMU), a fraud operation, was at the center of a complex underground corporate empire with operations stretching from Eastern Europe to Bahrain; from India and Singapore to the United States. A researcher with anti-virus software maker ” McAfee Inc ” who spent months studying the company’s operations estimates that the business generated [...]
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