Yahoo Fights Back Against Lottery Scammers-Awarded $610 Million in Damages

Posted on December 9th, 2011

We have all received an email at some point telling us that we have won a foreign lottery that we never entered. Scammers harvest email addresses from several sources send the emails and hope that the recipient’s greed will overcome their common sense. Sadly many fall victim to these scam every year. One of the [...]

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New Facebook Lottery Scam

Posted on October 26th, 2011

The imagination of lottery scammers knows no bounds and new scams hit the internet on a regular basis. Fake lottery scams have been profitable for cyber criminals but some scams are so obvious that it is hard to understand how anyone could fall for them. One of the most ridiculous lottery scams to hit the [...]

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Old Scam-New Twist

Posted on October 14th, 2011

Most [people can recognize a lottery scam when they see one. Unfortunately every year hundreds of people are victimized by lottery scammers. In some cases the lottery scams have taken a vicious turn and victims reported receiving death threats and threats to their families. Several old scams have resurfaced recently including letters from ‘ministers’ doing [...]

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