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Adrian Hall Loans Up to 90 million dollars Investments Scam?

Finally! I can borrow up to 90 million dollars at just 3.8%. I knew that my higher power would provide me with a means to pursue my lifetime goal of becoming a Nigerian drummer. Read more »

January 20, 2008 Posted by gariell | 419 Nigerian scams, advanced fees scam | , , , , , | 6 Comments

Taishin International Bank 419 Scam

Short and sweet bait seems to be the new approach employed by our friends in West Africa. We were getting used to receiving those long drawn out emails requesting all our contact details. However, no matter how short the email, they still manage to make grammatical errors and of course addressed to “undisclosed-recipients”. Read more »

January 20, 2008 Posted by gariell | 419 Nigerian scams, advanced fees scam | , , , , , | No Comments Yet

Walmart Moneygrams Scams

It has been several years now that the scammers have been exploiting and baiting victims through the use of Walmart Moneygrams or , if you prefer, money orders. They are used in a number of ways always with the one intent of fleecing honest people out of their savings.

What places these scams apart from the others is the devious and pure criminal nature of these scams. These bottom feeders don’t usually spam emails out to “undisclosed-recipients” and hope to bait a few uninformed victims.

In many instances the scammers will offer a Mystery Shopper mission where you are required to deposit moneygrams at a Walmarts outlet and transfer them to a foreign address. For your efforts you get to keep a certain percentage of the total amount for your efforts. Once the transaction is completed, a survey will be sent to you to complete evaluating the service provided by the employees at the outlet. Problem is , the moneygrams you rushed to deposit were bogus and you’re on the hook for the total amount of the deposits. You could even be charged with a criminal offence..Fraud.

Numerous cases have been reported where the scammers send bogus Moneygrams directly to individuals homes via UPS. Problem is the unsuspecting recipients have no idea why they received them in the first place but will go along with the scam and actually deposit these bogus certificates. Take the Kern family for example, they got duped for a couple thousand.

If you would like to hear more about the workings of these Moneygram scams check-out the forum at topix.com. and remember if it smells scammy it probably is.

January 20, 2008 Posted by gariell | Employment scams, Uncategorized | , , , , , , | 31 Comments