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TheBarSteward2
Not quite a Newb
Joined: 04 Jun 2008
Posts: 74
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Wed Oct 29, 2008 10:59 am |
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[source: Yahoo News]
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/16/20081029/ttc-yahoo-and-microsoft-take-aim-at-lott-6315470.html
Yahoo and Microsoft are teaming up in an effort to stop lottery email scams.
The two companies have signed on with Western Union and the African Development Bank to head a new effort to aid victims of the attacks and help catch the perpetrators.
Lottery scams often reach users in the form of spam messages. The user is told that they have won a special internet lottery, and are then advised that to claim the prize and securely conduct the transaction, bank details must be provided.
The account information is then harvested by the attacker and sold or used for fraudulent transactions.
The campaign will establish a new service that allows victims of the scams to share police reports. The companies have set up web sites and email addresses through which users can contribute their reports to a database.
The hope is that the database will better enable both the companies and law enforcement agencies to link the lottery scam cases and track down the criminals behind the frauds. Interpol will also contribute to the project by spreading awareness of the site and encouraging law enforcement groups to utilise the database in investigations.
"At Yahoo, we've long told our users that if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. But as internet fraudsters continue to get more creative in their approaches, consumers continue to be deceived," said George Hadjigeorgiou, Yahoo's European general manager of communication and community products.
"This unique initiative is a continuation of our online safety and trust initiatives and is intended to help support our consumer awareness efforts." |
_________________ I'm not a newbie! Long time straight-baiter, I just don't come here that often, and usually forget my account details when I do. |
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Ex.
Nature's Asshole
Joined: 28 Dec 2007
Posts: 990
Location: Hell's Presidential Suite
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Wed Oct 29, 2008 11:18 am |
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Yahoo doesn't mind accepting payments from stolen credit cards to fund fake websites though.
I guess they still deserve some credit for doing what they should have been doing all along.
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I found a new baiting name. Right up there with Peter Cockelbanger. |
_________________ YOU ARE JUST A CHILD WHOO SIT BEHIND HIS COMPUTER MASSTERBATI NG FO HISS FAMILLY - D3nnis M4rk, my lost Safari.
JACK B QUICK YOU ARE NATURES ASHOLE DO NOT EMAIL ME ANYMORE OK - R0ger Jon3s (Right you are mate)
i much prefer s3x in the 4ss - B4rrister 0luwa
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Mr Tambourine Man
Baiting Guru
Joined: 06 Jun 2008
Posts: 3398
Location: Magic swirlin' ship
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Wed Oct 29, 2008 11:35 am |
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The account information is then harvested by the attacker and sold or used for fraudulent transactions.
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Since when? Aren't they all advance fee scams?
And why just target lottery scams? |
_________________ is always Good when you have the zeal to be a hitwoman when you out of school,it makes you bold and reall and it makes you more high than any other of your friend.
NOW AMBACK FOR YOU AGAIN STURBORN SHIT
you dont have a phone.that makes makes you joe butt
Fuck you and go find something to do man. Stop disturbing me please.
This is definitely why you will remain and die in poverty, ignorant of good things and easy acknowledgment of bad things and words. Shame on you, you wicked generation children.
i went you to no that this is not a cheld pray. i went you to get back to me
we are not scammer,we hate scammer as you do.scammer make out life harder and harder,a lot of people think we are scammer,in fact,we are not!! please trustt us |
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Ex.
Nature's Asshole
Joined: 28 Dec 2007
Posts: 990
Location: Hell's Presidential Suite
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Wed Oct 29, 2008 11:42 am |
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Because a mass number of the lottery scams have always claimed to be from Yahoo and MS. |
_________________ YOU ARE JUST A CHILD WHOO SIT BEHIND HIS COMPUTER MASSTERBATI NG FO HISS FAMILLY - D3nnis M4rk, my lost Safari.
JACK B QUICK YOU ARE NATURES ASHOLE DO NOT EMAIL ME ANYMORE OK - R0ger Jon3s (Right you are mate)
i much prefer s3x in the 4ss - B4rrister 0luwa
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buried under 419 emails
Baiting Guru
Joined: 10 Oct 2003
Posts: 4747
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Thu Oct 30, 2008 1:35 am |
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Hmm it sound like the PR meeting at yahoo and MS went well, maybe its an election year.
I really wonder how many emails are sent from their services and both know it? how many sites do they host? |
_________________ "my dear,
you realy made me a fool which i dont expected from you" mr malambo
"Any money you send to Africa to receive your payment is at your own risk " David Mark
over 1,000 fakes deaded since Oct 2005. This is my current rampage! x6 |
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Newdonym
Elite Baiter
Joined: 19 Jan 2008
Posts: 1043
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Thu Oct 30, 2008 2:18 am |
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It would be nice if I saw one press release without at least one glaring mistake in it.
Hears to them actually doing it, I hope it makes some kind of difference. |
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irishemigrant
** REMEMBERED **
Joined: 22 Jul 2007
Posts: 4933
Location: 40*45' S 172* 34'E
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Thu Oct 30, 2008 7:24 am |
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I find it amazing that the USA can track every email/phone call/fax for terrorist activity, using keywords, but can't stop scams that use formatted scripts, which actually damage the economy more than any terrorist could.
Plus the victims usually fall foul of LEO, and a high percentage end up with criminal records from cheque scams
Misguided perceptions? |
_________________ SeniorNet NZ Local Branch ongoing workshops about internet scams
http://www.scamwarners.com/ For when you want to remember why we bait
Goodbye Mike (Paranoid) Friend, confidant, partner. Till we meet again.
Personal Message From The Axeman
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internationalchrysis
Baiting Guru
Joined: 19 Aug 2008
Posts: 3793
Location: Romancing the (Blood from a) stone!
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Fri Oct 31, 2008 3:19 am |
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I hope they hurry up. Checked my yahell account today, to see there was SPAM from myself! I think it's time I got rid of the account. GRRR |
_________________ Proud "member" of "The Todger Club"!
x1 (Senegal to Gambia)
"You can go now and f*ck yourself with a donkey or horse because you really need to be f*cked by a donkey or horse"
(George Michael's brother Frank/Frannypoo)
"You are a dead meat!"
(Léon the (Not so) Professional)
(19 in total:
x2 Léon the (not so) Professional. x4 Via Swindler's list. x4 Via Will and Grace the Law Firm. x3 *Hitman, x1 Hitman: The sequel!, , x1 Haiti scam, x1 The Bimbo (via Umbongo Chambers),
x1 Rita the ETA eater, x1 Via Team Doughnut, x1 Via Prince Emaka, x4 via the Nazis) |
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Kabuto Sama
Master of Master Baiters
Joined: 28 Jun 2006
Posts: 577
Location: In Pula pe Bega
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Sat Nov 01, 2008 3:32 pm |
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@ Ex.
George Hadjigeorgiou - This is a Greek Aromanian name |
_________________ x3 x4 x5 x4
OL BOY NA SMALL TIN REMAIN CRAZ FOR ENTER YOUR MATTER OH , IBI LIKE SAY DEM COME ADD SMALL AFRICAN INSURANCE NAIM COME MAKE YOU SEE SMALL ROAD SHA.
ANY HOW I GO CATCH U FOR ANOTHER CORNER AGAIN MR WADADA!
your father is a pig and your mother is a bicth.you are a bastad and you will die young.you shold ask your father where you bastad came from.South Africa is not for white.someday we will kill you all whites in africa and in south africa.up Zulu. -- the angry Zulu lad
you are a foolish Man that is why people like you dont achive good things in Life forget it if do not want to jelp this young Man
Asshole! - angry ghanaian "barrister" |
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