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• Fake email addresses - Malicious actors sometimes send from email addresses made to look like an official email address but in fact is missing a letter(s), misspelled, replaces a letter with a lookalike number (e.g. “O” and “0”), or originates from free email services that would not be used for official communications.
Ashpia Natasha told WPIX that the Oct. 16 incident involving her car and another vehicle was probably a setup Woman Alleges Insurance Scam Attempt After Dash Cam Showed Car Backing Into Her ...
This is an example of what a local official says is a scam letter trying to convince people to buy a home warranty. Personal information from the homeowner, which was included in the letter, has ...
Based on mostly the same principles as the Nigerian 419 advance-fee fraud scam, this scam letter informs recipients that their e-mail addresses have been drawn in online lotteries and that they have won large sums of money. Here the victims will also be required to pay substantial small amounts of money in order to have the winning money ...
An upstate New York automobile association is warning its members of a recent uptick in fraudulent emails and text messages. AAA Western and Central New York alerted its members to the fraudulent ...
The miracle cars scam was an advance-fee scam run from 1997 to 2002 by Californians James R. Nichols and Robert Gomez. In its run of just over four years, over 4,000 people bought 7,000 cars that did not exist, netting over US$ 21 million from the victims.
A recovery room scam is a form of advance-fee fraud where the scammer (sometimes posing as a law enforcement officer or attorney) calls investors who have been sold worthless shares (for example in a boiler-room scam), and offers to buy them, to allow the investors to recover their investments. [92]
The scam calls that are harder to identify come from a real, human caller who shares accurate details about your current car make and model, mileage, insurance, and current warranty.