Thread: Must See This List......Hope It Helps Someone...

Listing of Scams by their type

ScamNet -

Advance Fee Frauds (Nigerian):

Airline Disasters
Australian International Lottery
Australian Lottery Corporation
El Gordo
El Mundo Sweepstake
Euromillions lottery scam
Heritage Lottery scam
Home loans and credit offers
Hurricane Katrina
ICEP Holocaust money
Iraq Millions
La Primitiva
Lottery Emails
Lotterywest Promotions/Prize Award Centre
Nigerian Scam
Primitiva Award or Lottery
Princess Diana Universal Promo
Shell Petroleum International Lottery Promo
Sir Dennis Thatcher
TNT Courier Service
UK National Lottery Sweepstake

Pyramid schemes and chain letters:

Canadian Diamond Traders
David Rhodes
Departure Central Inc
Pat Griffin
Paul Collins
PayPal - Fast Easy Money

Employment schemes:

Adams Green
Ascon International
Ascot International
Barcelo Travel
Bestfast-job.com
Cash-Transfers Inc
Columbus-Partners Inc
CommExchanges Inc
Corporate PA
Dick Smith employment email
Drop4Sale
EcoLife company
FinServ Inc
Girtex Inc
Global Austrian Syndicate
GlobalIndustry Finance Group
Global Job or wdajob.com
Instant Cash
Mercury Industries
Money Transfer Schemes
Nations Welfare Foundation
Norway Consulting Group
Project 21
River Partners
Ronald McDonald House Charities Ukraine
Steinberg Investments Inc
Swiss Invest
Trigon Partners
UK Modulus Invest
Ukrainian Folk Instruments Sales
Email scams:
Bank emails
CIA Email
FBI Emails
Giveaway Hoax Emails
Liverpool Football Club promotion
PayPal security email
SEEK job scams

190 fax-back and telephone numbers:

Get paid to shop
Government and police disposal sales
Lemonade diet
Promotional Fax Offers
SARS fax survey
Stolen property fax scheme
War poll
Win a Lotus
Win a Porsche
Prizes and lotteries scams:
Act of God Awards
Aus Prize Disbursement Agency
Award Notification Service
Awards Allocation Bureau
Bank Vault
Biotal diet pills
Carter, Hammond and Pierce
Cash Acquisition Resources
Cash Affiliates & Disbursements
Cash Alert
Cash Contribution Contest
CDM
Central Assets Holding Company
Centre International des Gains
Chase Wilton & Weede
C.H.P.
Consolidated Award Services
Corporate Prize Headquarters
CSGF Grand Finalists Select Club
Digital Worldnet
Direct Account Enhancement Inc
Direct Riches contest
Dominion Entitlement - Cheque Disbursement Centre
Emilie Paul
European Lottery Guild
Eva Lorca (FIAG) of Switzerland
Fedder and Brothers Partnership
Federation Internationale d'Attribution de Gains (FAIG)
FMAGG
Fortune Fever
Friedrich Mueller Gift Distribution
Gold Winning International
Harris and Witherspoon
Hauser, Gottesman & Associates
I.M.M.A Financial Services
International Claims Administration
International Express Awards
International Settlements Authority
International Shipping and Notification Centre
International Shipping Depot
International Special Offers
IPD
John Latimore Wainwright
Monetary Prize Payment Agency
Morgan Samuels Haggerty
National Awards Advisory Center
National Awards Clearinghouse
National Awards Commission
Net Direct Electronics
North American Award Centre
Office of Unallocated Awards at Sweepstakes International
O.M.G.A. Mondial Transport Express
Opportunities Unlimited Publications
Organisation Centre of Financial Gain (O.C.F.G)
Organization for the Worldwide Distribution of Gains
P.A.I.D
Payment Processing Bureau
Premium Awards Office
Prize Admin and Payments
Prize Distribution Commission (PDC)
Prize Giveaway
Prize Payments
Prize Power Promotions
Prize World Incorporated
Professional Premiums of Utrecht
Prosperity International
Puzzles 4 Cash
Quick Cash
Ready Riches Contest
Rutger, Feinstein, Rohrbach & Stern Ltd
Security Dispatch Ltd
Transglobal Commercial Services
Transnational Awards Division
TransNational Trade Consortium of Nova Scotia
Transworld Property Repository
Willoughby and Johnson
Winners Circle
Winners Location Corp/Smithhaven
Winning Centre
Worldwide Cash Registry
World Wide Distribution Centre
www.SRC
AustroCanadian Lottery
Boesche (German Lottery Agency)
CAMSE
Contest America Publishers
Crown Imperial Imports
Email lottery scams
Euro Lottery
Global Win Office
Goode Walker and Company
Gros Lot a Gagner
ILS
ILS German Lotto
Immediate Wealth - Office of Administration
International Awards Treasury
International Leather Shop
IPG Prize Distribution Department
Lottery Swindle
Mega Money
North West German Lottery
Overseas subscribers Agents/USA Mega Jackpots
Psychic, Clairvoyant and other lucky charms:
Amanda Kane
Angela Almera
Angelique de Succes
Anna Pfeiffer
Blanche Calmette Clairvoyant
Bon Po
Christie Owen
Claire Bonheur
Edmond de Valles
Esmeralda Wicca
Eva du Maurier
Gabriel DAngelo
Giacomo dAlbi
Incentive Merchandise Liquidation
Johann Christensen
Julie Haley
Laure Athol
Lise and Rose
Madame Arachnea
Maestro Zhandler
Magdalena
Maitre Norbu
Mala Devi
Maria de Fortune
Maria Rosa
Marie Callas
Marie Desperance
Master Zholtan
Michelle Alby
Mikael
Milka Petrovna
Miss Celeste
Miss Malinda
Nelchael
Nostradamus Research Centre
Nuova Tech Society Neo-Tech Publishing Company Inc
Olivia Roy's Future Newspaper
Paloma Summer
Paul Ritter
Professor Djemaro
Professor Messidor
Rachel
Radia
Rebecca
Rebecca - druid magician
Rose Hart
Ryan Willor
Sara Freder
Senora Diaz - Swiss Clairvoyant
Serena
Spectres of Ill Omen
Supreme Council of 12
Vinci Seven Pentacles of Happiness
Zolar

Directory listings and registry schemes:

Domain Names Australia
Employment Protection Australia
Northwest WA Business Directory/Southwest WA Business Directory

Telemarketing scams:

Holiday Timeshare Offers

Overpayment and Overseas Purchase and Booking Orders:

Fernandez Caspelli
Holiday bookings
Jim Owen agency

FBI Email
Email scam

ScamNet - Email scams

The FBI has sent you – YOU – an email claiming it has been monitoring your Internet use and you have accessed a number of so-called illegal sites.

It wants you to open an attachment and answer a list of questions.

Do NOT open this attachment because it contains variants of the W32/sober virus.

Once your computer is infected, the virus may:

Attempt to harvest email addresses from a configurable list of file extensions
Utilize its own SMTP engine to send itself to the harvested email addresses
Other common characteristics of W32/sober virus variants include:

Modify the system registry to prevent Windows XP's built-in firewall from starting
Modify the HOSTS file to prevent the computer from accessing certain security and commercial web sites
Attempt to terminate a number of running processes, some of which are security related
Open a backdoor on the system that allows the attacker to communicate remotely with the system via IRC. This may allow the attacker to upload and execute arbitrary code on the infected machine.
To date, the phoney FBI emails have been sent with email addresses of [email protected], [email protected] and [email protected]. There may be similar-styled addresses.

The FBI warns that it does not conduct business like this and is investigating the matter. For more information check out the FBI’s website at Federal Bureau of Investigation - Home Page.

Similar emails purportedly come from the CIA and Bundeskriminalamt (BKA), the German Federal police service.

WA ScamNet always advises computer users to never open an unsolicited email attachment and to keep their anti-virus software up-to-date.

Charities

DOCEP - Consumer Protection - Charities

Any organisation or club collecting money or goods from the public for charitable purposes, needs to be licensed under the Charitable Collections Act. There is no fee required for a license, however each of the Principal Executive Officers must provide a NATIONAL POLICE CLEARANCE.

To register, you need to contact the Charitable Collections Advisory Committee. Forms relating to licensing are available here.

This Committee consists of five independent members appointed by the Governor. Once the Committee receives an application for registration, the Committee makes recommendations to the Minister for Consumer and Employment Protection in regard to the licensing of an organisation.

The following links provide further information on Charities:

Licensed Charities Register
Codes of Practice
Types of Charitable Collections
Charitable Organisations and Commercial Fundraisers
Charities and Associations Links
Forms
Related Publications
If you need further information, contact the Administrative Officer, Charitable Collections Advisory Committee on ++61 8 9282 0832 or send an email to [email protected].

I've also had warning emails at my yahoo account concerning my ebay and B of A accounts. Links look legit but obviously if you don't pay attention you'll get hooked.

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I GET LOADS OF FSHING E-MAILS.

Paypal/E-bay being the main ones!

E-bay one is funny...usually goes along the lines of..."saw your item for a sale and have cash waiting is it still avail?"
Your an ***** for not realising you haven't put up any items for sale (worst still not remembering what they were if you had) so you click the link to the e-bay account.....BANG they are all over your computer and account!

Had one from paypal and that was the scare tactic...."Your account has been frozen due to suspicious activity.Click on the link..." BANG done again!

DO NOT OPEN ANY LINKS VIA AN E-MAIL FROM ANY MONEY BASED SITES.

If there is a problem they may well e-mail you BUT AND IT IS A BIG BUT! they will ask you to log on via your usual link and will not give you a quick link via the e-mail.

Hope that helps a few out there in cyber space.

Addhesive

Dear addhesive (and anyone else having this problem):
If the e-mail is really from eBay or paypal, it will begin with your name. If it says "dear customer" or whatever besides your name, do not click on any links! Instead forward it immediately to: [email protected]. I have copied and pasted the following information from the eBay website with the hope of preventing anyone else from the misery of identiy theft:

Reporting Spoof (Fake) Emails
Spoof emails are deceptive emails claiming to be sent by well-known companies. They are called "spoof emails" (also known as "hoax" or "phisher" emails) because they fake the appearance of a popular Web site or company in an attempt to commit identity theft. The people who send these emails hope that unsuspecting recipients will reply or click a link contained in the email and then provide sensitive personal information (for example, eBay passwords, social security numbers, or credit card numbers).

To help eBay protect your eBay account and your identity:

Learn to recognize characteristics of spoof email.
Know what to do when you receive suspicious email.
Report suspicious email to eBay.
Protect yourself from spoof emails and possible eBay account takeover and identity theft.
An email message from eBay:

Never asks you to provide financial account numbers, passwords, or other sensitive information through email. If eBay requests information from you, a copy of that email will be in the My Messages box in My eBay. For more information, see Using My Messages.
Does not require you to enter information on a page that cannot be accessed from the eBay site. When possible, you should avoid clicking links. Instead of clicking the link, you should copy the address and paste it into the Address/Location area of your Web browser. While eBay may send email that contains links, the links are provided for convenience only. You will not be required to submit sensitive information if a direct link is provided to an eBay page.
Will not include attachments. If you receive a message that appears to have been sent from eBay that includes an attachment, do not open it.
May be a misdirected "Forgot your password" message. These messages are sent when a member enters a User ID using the "Forgot your password" feature. After the User ID is entered, a notice is sent to the email address registered to that account. If you received this email unexpectedly, it is probably because someone else mistyped his or her own User ID when attempting to use this feature.
Typical characteristics of spoof email

The following characteristics are warning signs that the email you received may not be legitimate.

Uses eBay terms, department names and often includes the eBay logo to resemble common eBay email.
Has a generic greeting like “Attention eBay Member.”
Often includes a forged eBay address in the "From" line of the email. For example, "From: [email protected]", "From: [email protected]", "From: eBay Account Maintenance." Just because the sender line includes “ebay.com”, does not guarantee that the email is from eBay.
Contains threats of account suspension or urges quick action. Subjects can include problems with your account, Ask the Seller a Question, or offers to become an eBay PowerSeller.
Includes a request to provide personal information, to verify your password, or to confirm account information.
Contains links to Web pages that look exactly like eBay sign-in pages.
What to do when you receive suspicious email

Do not send sensitive personal information using email.
eBay will never ask you to send your account password or other sensitive personal information, such as credit card numbers, in an email.
Never click on a link in an email if you are unsure of its origins, especially if the email asks for personal financial information. The purpose of spoof email is to lead you to a Web site and attempt to collect personal information and commit identity theft or other crimes.
When in doubt, go directly to the eBay Web site. Open a new browser window, type eBay - New & used electronics, cars, apparel, collectibles, sporting goods & more at low prices, sign-in, and use the "site map" link to navigate the site. For more information, see Recognizing Fake eBay Websites. Make sure you sign out when you are finished, especially if you are using a public computer.
Report the email by forwarding the email to [email protected]
Monitor your account for suspicious activities. Your account may have been compromised. eBay also monitors suspicious account activity and will contact you about changing your password.
Important: If you have already replied to a fraudulent email with sensitive personal information or entered data through a fake Web page, you need to take immediate steps to protect your eBay account (see Securing Your eBay Account and Reporting Account Theft) and your identity (see Protecting Your Identity).

Reporting spoof email

If you have any doubt whether an email is from eBay, help eBay keep our community safe by reporting it immediately.

To report suspicious email:
Use your email program to forward the message to [email protected].
Important: In order for eBay investigate your report, you must forward the email without adding attachments, adding text or altering text.

Once you have forwarded the email, you can delete it from your email account.

I HOPE THIS HELPS.
songbird

Thanks for the heads up.
Cheers Gray

Wow, that's a pretty long list.

hahahahaha. it looks like you have done lot of R & D on it. great work bro. I really salute you for your patience. hope this helps few new commers. thanks for giving such a huge information