Tag: SCAMSANDFRAUDS

Nothing is worse than heartache. The wrenching sorrow of losing the one you love makes it feel like your whole world is ending, and not much else elicits that much pain -- unless, of course, you've given up nearly $125,000 to the person who did you wrong. That's just a horrid case of adding insult to injury. A divorced mother of three from Leicestershire, U.K. met a dashing and "All-American" ...

digg_url ='http://www.switched.com/2010/07/21/indian-phone-scammers-pose-as-microsoft-technicians-plant-malwa/'; Kolkata may be the land of elaborate Durga Pujas, cinematic legend Satyajit Ray and coronary-inducing kati rolls, but the Eastern Indian metropolis is also the land of a virulent phone scam that's been quietly making its way around the world for the past two years. As the ...

When it comes to being up to date with the latest trends and techniques in law-evasion, lawyers are, by definition, experts. Even they, however, can fall prey to well-disguised cybercrimes, as one New Hampshire barrister has just proven. The lawyer, who remains anonymous, reportedly lost some $240,000 after falling for an online scam that used fake companies and counterfeit checks to hire ...

In response to a slew of clever e-mail scams, Google has introduced a new security feature that automatically notifies Gmail users whenever suspicious activity appears on their account. In addition to the recent activity information that currently runs across the bottom of Gmail users' inboxes, Google has now decided to send out warning messages whenever it detects something fishy going on. As ...

Share If you get an e-mail with a subject line that reads, "Facebook password reset confirmation customer support," you can just go ahead and hit the delete button. That's because, if you open it, you may fall prey to the latest scam to hit Facebook, and divulge intensely personal password or banking information. The malicious e-mail bears an attachment that, the message claims, contains your ...