During the course of the 2010s, I came across two con artists. One thing that united them was they were men. But they could not have been more different: one was rather elaborate and was the subject of a Panorama documentary; the other was a rank amateur and, at least in the situation we […]
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Are you a scam artist? Facebook loves you, and protects you
The Royal New Zealand Ballet generously put its Hansel & Gretel performance from November 2019 online for free this weekend, choosing Facebook as its medium. That, naturally, attracts scam artists, putting in false links in order to charge credit cards. Many Kiwis were duped. The RNZB reported many, and so have I. All six of […]
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419ers adopt a new technology: the postal system
Interesting to get this letter from the UK today, sent air mail from the Croydon Mail Centre, Surrey, on September 5. The Nigerian 419 scammers have figured out that email is ineffective, so they are moving on to this brand-new technology: mail. As with the last time I blogged about clumsy 419 attempts—a […]
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