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Fool Your Friends with an Old Carnival Scam: Pricking the Garter!

May 20th, 2012

Get a refresher and a history lesson on the "fast and loose" con game we’ve learned on Scam School before. In this episode Brian teaches an earlier version of the same scam. This one’s known as "pricking the garter" and instead of a chain, we use a rolled up belt. Challenge your friends to see if they can put their finger in the true center of the belt loop so that when you unravel the two ends of the strap, it remains "fast" rather than pulls away "loose." Watch the Fast and Loose episode here: www.youtube.com The first edition of the Scam School book IS HERE! Pick it up here: www.scamschoolbook.com COMMENT, FAVORITE and SHARE this video! http Want more scams, tricks and ways to impress your friends? Subscribe for free!: www.youtube.com Scam School Homepage revision3.com Twitter twitter.com

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Worst DeWeissbierr Scams autos at Autos Infomation

May 20th, 2012

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May 17th, 2012

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Fake Verizon Wireless Email: Worst Email Scams & How To Avoid …

May 17th, 2012

Below is why you should get ‘out of the habit’ of clicking on any links within an email. Scams are running rampant with email and they’re not always easy to spot with the naked eye, so be cautious and think before you click.

PLEASE NOTE: THE PHOTO EMAIL BELOW IS NOT SENT FROM VERIZON®. IF YOU RECEIVE IT, IT’S A FAKE. IT IS BEING USED BELOW AS AN EXAMPLE OF AN ACTUAL PHISHING EMAIL I RECEIVED. VERIZON® IS TRYING TO PUT A STOP TO IT. THIS IS HERE TO HELP OTHERS AVOID IT AND EMAILS LIKE IT AS WELL AS TO ILLUSTRATE IN DETAIL.

Today I received a fake but cleverly designed Verizon Wireless phishing scam email in my inbox. The subject line is the usual “Your Bill Is Now Available“. I’ve been getting this for what feels like so many years now, but once in a while I see one that still almost gets me. Lucky I was too busy to even think about it much at the time, click any links or look into it at all so I figured I would get back to later. It indicated that I had an astronomically high monthly usage bill of $1,760.76.

The email says:

Your current bill for your account is now available online in My Verizon

Total Balance Due: $1760.76

Keep in mind that payments and/or adjustments made to your account after your bill was generated will not be reflected in the amount shown above.

> View and Pay Your Bill

Want to simplify payments?

> Enroll in Auto Pay

Thank you for choosing Verizon Wireless.

I knew something couldn’t be right. I checked into it later and noticed that is was addressed to the wrong email, which is what first tipped me off that it was fake. I haven’t written anything on these for a very long time, but these scams have been going on for a long time and are nothing new, they are just becoming more wide spread and sophisticated.

I’ve already gotten into the habit of not clicking on links in my email so I didn’t even click the links there, but this is a pretty clever scam email because I can see how it would easily fool so many unsuspecting people. Hundreds of thousands of people have likely opened these up over the last few months. I called Verizon about it and they do know about it, and explained that they are already working on tracking it down. A search for ‘Fake Verizon Wireless Email” also returns a lot of results on Google.

Below is how good they made this one look:

Fake Verizon Wireless Email

Fake Verizon Wireless Email

This email did not actually originate from the email address which appears as the sender at the top of the email. It did not come from AccountNotify@verizonwireless.com or eAccountNotify@verizonwireless.com. This is called email spoofing. The email actually comes from the IP Address 196.20.167.242 which translates to Mauritius, officially the Republic of Mauritius, a small country on an island off the southeast coast of the Africa. The links also do not go to Verizon either. No, they go somewhere far more malicious.

Here is what is really behind this email:

Fake Verizon Wireless Email Scam

Behind The Fake Verizon Wireless Scam Email

The IP Address is found within the headers of the email. Different email programs work different ways, but they usually have an option to ‘show original’, ‘view source’ or ‘view email headers’. This is where you can see all the intricate details behind the email, such as where it came from. Again, for this particular email the IP Address 196.20.167.242 is from Mauritius. This means whoever sent the email either sent it from there, or they remotely connected to a computer (possibly compromised, broken into or hacked) and send this email from a machine (server) which is located in Mauritius. Now that doesn’t mean that’s where the person is behind this email, but it does mean they had a connection to a computer server over there in order to send this mail. This is what makes these hackers and scammers so difficult to catch.

Tracing the IP Address returns the following info about its location and origin (where the mail server is):

Tracing the IP Address

Tracing the IP Address

The web site address is actually tracing back a Brazil TLD .bz and is hosted in Brazil:

Traces Back Brazil TLD (.bz) To A Server Hosted in Brazil

Traces Back Brazil TLD (.bz) To A Server Hosted in Brazil

The sites IP (not the mail server but the site IP of 177.19.182.166) traces back to Brazil and a domain name registrar in Brazil with the following Whois record:

domain name registrar in Brazil with the following Whois record.

Domain Name Registrar in Brazil Whois Record.

The following WhoIs Record translated in English to:

WhoIs Record translated in English

WhoIs Record Translated in English

So What’s This All About? What’s Their Overall Goal?

There are many diferent reaons why these spammers do this type of stuff, but it is usually to take advantage of you or scam you in some way, shape or form. It’s always about them making money somehow, by either:

  • Making you visit a malicious site to install a virus on your machine.
  • Take over your browser to serve you with ads.
  • Take over your computer and log your keystrokes.
  • Use your computer as a host to send email or spam (probably what happened here in Mauritius)
  • Have you visit a fake (authentic looking) page and login, at which point they steal your passwords.
  • Or just snoop, steal from, or otherwise cause harm to you or someone else.

I was really curious to click on these links just to see what is going on at that URL in the email alpinors.com.br/zskzapQH/index.html (Don’t try it), but I know better, so what I’ll do first is a Server Header Check on the URL to see if it redirects me somewhere else, but it doesn’t. It returns a status 200, which means OK – the page is there.

status 200

Running Server Header Checker: Status Code 200

So now that I know what is there I want to look at the source code which is hidden behind the web page. I can do this with a Source Code Viewer.

There It Is! (The Goal) - To Get You Here (below) So Whatever That Mess Does Gets You:

Source Code Hidden Scripts

Source Code (HTML) With Hidden Malicious Scripts

Looks like when the page loads it is going to quickly redirect me to yet an additional location. Looks at these guys go! They’re relentless. Looks like there is a bunch of JavaScript waiting to load on that page, two from 60.43.157.82 (Japan Tokyo Open Computer Network), two from alliancedisability.com (hosted at GoDaddy, probably don’t even know they’ve been compromised), two from http://tatui.sp.gov.br (200.144.6.216, Brazil – Comite Gestor Da Internet No Brasil) and two from http://snaku.altervista.org (108.162.207.65, California – San Francisco – Cloudflare Inc, another machine likely compromised).

60.43.157.82 (Japan Tokyo Open Computer Network)

60.43.157.82 (Japan Tokyo Open Computer Network)

alliancedisability.com hosted at GoDaddy

AallianceDisability.com (hosted at GoDaddy)

http://tatui.sp.gov.br (200.144.6.216, Brazil - Comite Gestor Da Internet No Brasil)

http://tatui.sp.gov.br (200.144.6.216, Brazil – Comite Gestor Da Internet No Brasil)

http://snaku.altervista.org (108.162.207.65, California - San Francisco - Cloudflare Inc).

http://snaku.altervista.org (108.162.207.65, California – San Francisco – Cloudflare Inc).

There is a very good possibility that each one of those sites which hosts that script is actually doing the same thing. The reason there is four of them is so that if any one of the four sites (which have been hacked and used to run these scripts for visitors) finds out the scripts are there and removes them, there are 3 back up sites still being used, so that the entire plan does not get compromised from one site owner realizing he has been hacked and removing those scripts. In order for the email blast scam to fail, ALL four web sites would need to realize they have been hit and remove the scripts at which point the entire plot is foiled. Anyone who clicks on the links in the email will get a page that does nothing and the whole thing is over, at which point, the scammers go find more machines to hack, more malicious scripts to install, more machines to take over and send spam from, and the entire thing starts over again.

It’s very difficult to catch these scammers because by the time you get to them they’re usually gone and have moved on to other machines to run their scam.

SO IT IS VERY IMPORTANT TO:

  • Never Log-in to web sites from an email.
  • Always check if you are visiting the actual URL by looking in the address bar.
  • If visiting a financial site or ready to purchase, look for the “green bar” and lock.

  • Always hover over a link and view the task bar to see it’s address.

For more information on this as well as what to do about it visit:
http://www.longislandexchange.com/identity-theft.html 

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TechNutt: Consumers Lost Nearly $500 Million From A Variety Of …

May 14th, 2012
Crime on the Internet is becoming more devious and costly.

Consumers lost nearly $500 million last year from Internet scams ranging from crooks impersonating FBI agents to others using romantic relationships to extract cash, says a new report released late Thursday.

Cyber scam artists also used a combination of auto fraud, work from home and loan intimidation scams to steal big bucks from consumers last year, says the report, produced by the Internet Crime Complaint Center, a partnership between the FBI, the National White Collar Crime Center, and the federal Bureau of Justice Assistance.

The report shows crooks are using a combination of intimidation, the lure of a good deal in a bad economy and the growth of the Internet to their advantage, says Gartner analyst Avivah Litan.

“Most people don’t have it in their head that there is fraud out there,” she said. “They (crooks) are just very good social engineers.”

Last year, IC3 collected 314,246 complaints of fraud, up from 303,809 in 2010 but down from the record 336,655 it received in 2009.

Dollar losses in 2011 totaled $485.3 million. This is the first time IC3 has provided a loss estimate .

The amount of losses from fraud isn’t that surprising given the millions of people using the Internet every day in the U.S., says IDC analyst Phil Hochmuth.

“There is always some spectacular dollar loss tied to cyberfraud; it is a big problem and it’s happening more frequently than ever,” he said. “It just follows the trends in online digital life — more commerce, financial services, banking is all moving online and the fraud moves with it.”

Last year, FBI-related scams ranked as the most common form of reported fraud with 35,764 complaints filed with IC3.

In many cases, crooks posed as FBI agents to bilk victims via email. Fraud losses from FBI impersonation scams cost consumers more than $3.5 million last year.

Scammers are likely hoping to intimidate their victims by using the FBI name, says IDC’s Hochmuth.

“If a fake agent has contacted you, you might be more likely to respond to them,” he said.

Identity theft scams, in which criminals use a consumer’s personal information to commit fraud, came in second with 28,915 complaints. Advance fee fraud, where crooks convince victims to pay for goods they never receive, ranked third with 27,892 complaints.

Last year, lovelorn Internet users became one of the most battered victims of cybercrime.

by Pete Barlas Investor’s Business Daily May 10, 2012

Consumers Lost Nearly $500 Million From A Variety Of Internet Scams In 2011 – Investors.com

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Scams cost US a pretty penny : Fraud Scam

May 14th, 2012





Online scams including identity theft schemes, “advance fee” and “romance fraud” cost Americans some $485 million in 2011, a report prepared for the FBI said Thursday.

The Internet Crime Complaint Center annual report said the number of complaints about online fraud rose 3.4 percent to 314 246.

The most common complaints included FBI-related scams, in which criminals impersonate the FBI to gain sensitive data, identity theft and advance fee fraud — schemes in which emails pledge to release funds for a transaction fee.

One of the newer schemes involves fraudulent auto sales — in which a criminal posts a car for sale at an attractive price, pretending to be desperate to sell before moving or deploying overseas, and then seeking a deposit to hold the vehicle.

Other fraud schemes include the “non delivery” of merchandise bought online or through an auction, and “overpayment fraud” in which someone receives an check with instructions to deposit it in a bank account and send excess funds or a percentage of the deposited money back to the sender.

For victims reporting financial losses, the average was $4187, said the crime center, a partnership of industry and the FBI.

The center in 2011 received over 5600 complaints of “romance scams” in which scammers target individuals searching for companionship or romance online.

“Victims believe they are ‘dating’ someone decent and honest. However, the online contact is often a criminal with a well-rehearsed script that scammers use repeatedly and successfully,” the report said.

“Scammers search chat rooms, dating sites, and social networking sites looking for victims. Although the principal group of victims is over 40 years old, divorced or widowed, disabled and often elderly, all demographics are at risk.”

These scams often result in both monetary and emotional distress, the report said. On average, each victim reported a loss of $8900, for a total of $50 million.

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An oft-used type of online fraud: FBI impersonation scams | WRHI.com

May 11th, 2012





An organization created to address online fraud says scams in which criminals impersonate FBI agents were one of the most common types of Internet crime complaints last year – a total of 14,350 nationwide.

The Internet Crime Complaint Center says it has handled over 300,000 complaints in each of the past three years. The 314,246 complaints in 2011 marked a 3.4 percent increase over 2010, when complaints totaled 303,809. The amount of money lost by the victims last year: $485.3 million.

Falsely representing themselves to be FBI agents, online criminals often send blast e-mails to thousands of prospective victims notifying them of impending windfalls, typically from lottery winnings or inheritance. The e-mails direct the victim to call someone else in another government agency and at that point, the victim is charged various fees to claim the windfall, which turns out to be non-existent.

“Basically, the scams need an air of legitimacy in order to work and invoking the FBI or another governmental agency leads victims to believe the fraudsters’ claims,” Charles Pavelites, an FBI supervisory special agent at the Internet Crime Complaint Center in Fairmont, W.Va.

The Internet Crime Complaint Center is a partnership between the FBI and a private group, the National White Collar Crime Center. The Internet complaint center acts as a clearinghouse so that online fraud allegations can be forwarded to law enforcement agencies for possible prosecution.




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FBI impersonation scams popular – KSWT: Local News, Weather …

May 11th, 2012

By PETE YOST
Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) – An organization created to address online fraud says scams in which criminals impersonate FBI agents were one of the most common types of Internet crime complaints last year – a total of 14,350 nationwide.

The Internet Crime Complaint Center says it has handled over 300,000 complaints in each of the past three years. The 314,246 complaints in 2011 marked a 3.4 percent increase over 2010, when complaints totaled 303,809. The amount of money lost by the victims last year: $485.3 million.

Falsely representing themselves to be FBI agents, online criminals often send blast e-mails to thousands of prospective victims notifying them of impending windfalls, typically from lottery winnings or inheritance. The e-mails direct the victim to call someone else in another government agency and at that point, the victim is charged various fees to claim the windfall, which turns out to be non-existent.

“Basically, the scams need an air of legitimacy in order to work and invoking the FBI or another governmental agency leads victims to believe the fraudsters’ claims,” Charles Pavelites, an FBI supervisory special agent at the Internet Crime Complaint Center in Fairmont, W.Va.

The Internet Crime Complaint Center is a partnership between the FBI and a private group, the National White Collar Crime Center. The Internet complaint center acts as a clearinghouse so that online fraud allegations can be forwarded to law enforcement agencies for possible prosecution.

Copyright 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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Text Message Scams and Spams | HiddenHillsNewz.com

May 8th, 2012

Preventing Unwanted Text Messages

By: Barbara Lipkin

I hate scams and spams. Now we not only have to contend with internet scams and phishing (there is a whole new vocabulary out there), but also text scams. Receiving a text in the middle of the night was beyond annoying but when it turned out to be a text meant to swindle me, it was worse. I don’t recall how much the gift card was for but I know that I do not shop at that store. The biggest clue was the number. Now we are getting 5, 6 & 10 digit numbers. This scam is called “SMiShing“. If you receive one you can forward the text to the shortcode 7726 which spells SPAM. You should receive an automated message from your wireless carrier asking you to enter the phone number from which the spam text was sent. This allows wirelss carriers to investigate and block senders.

Don’t believe you won a $50 Starbucks card or will win a free IPad if you are one of the first 1000 responses. If something is too good to be true, it is too good to be true.

Verizon, my wireless carrier, even filed suit against another type of text fraud through which companies set up websites to rope in unwitting customers to fraudulent premium third-party SMS text messaging services, which can make lots of money off the unwitting.

These spam text messages are illegal under the 2003 “Can Spam” Act. The FCC recommends to reply STOP, but there’s a theory that replying could just indicate to the spammer that you have a working number that can be resold.

Customers Affected by Text Messaging Fraud Can Visit www.premiumsmsrefunds.com for Information on Filing Claim for Refund.

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