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		<title>Less 419 Scams while Nigerian Cable is Out?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 21:05:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mxw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advance Fee Fraud]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Large parts of West Africa have communications blackouts after damage was found on the major undersea fiberoptic cable, known as SAT-3,  which supplies countries such as Benin, Togo, Niger and Nigeria. The cable runs from Portugal and Spain to South Africa, via West Africa and has cut 70% of Nigeria&#8217;s bandwidth, causing severe problems [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hippy-eye-ay – WTF is a HYIP?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mxw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Email Scams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Identity Theft]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ponzi Schemes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Wikipedia, a High Yield Investment Program (aka HYIP) is &#8230;
A high-yield investment program (HYIP) is a type of Ponzi scheme, which is an investment scam that promises an unsustainably high return on investment by paying previous investors with the money invested by newcomers.
Ok, yet another scam &#8211; so what?
Well, there&#8217;s a few spam [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Golden 1 Phone Scam hits Sacramento</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:40:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mxw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Email Scams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Identity Theft]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Phishing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[banking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[phone scams]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Social engineering is an approach used to gain unauthorized access to or acquisition of information assets. This approach relies on misrepresentation and the trusting nature of individuals, and is often carried out through the use of phishing telephone calls or email.
A phishing telephone call or phishing email may sound or look as though it comes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama gets Serious about Cyber Security</title>
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		<comments>http://www.scamdex.com/ScamBlog/2009/05/obama-gets-serious-about-cyber-security/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 18:10:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mxw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Email Scams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cyber]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Identity Theft]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[internet crime]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.scamdex.com/ScamBlog/?p=524</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In February 2009, President Obama directed a 60-day review of the plans, programs and activities underway throughout the government that address communications and information infrastructure (i.e., cyberspace). The purpose was to develop a strategic framework to ensure that initiatives in this area are integrated, resourced and coordinated appropriately, both within the Executive Branch and with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PHP Exploit URL foxes Apache</title>
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		<comments>http://www.scamdex.com/ScamBlog/2009/05/php-exploit-url-foxes-apache/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 21:26:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mxw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Phishing]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.scamdex.com/ScamBlog/2009/05/php-exploit-url-foxes-apache/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There are a lot of smart people out there who know way too much about computers and software and stuff, like this guy: &#8216;Perishable Press&#8216;. So, can someone clever please tell me why this simple url hangs up a bunch of seemingly dissimilar web servers:

http://www.microsoft.com/errors.php?error=http://abirdseyeviewof.com/files/image/id1.txt?

Here&#8217;s the deal &#8211; when someone asks for a webpage on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mortgage/Bankruptcy Scam Warning!</title>
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		<comments>http://www.scamdex.com/ScamBlog/2009/04/mortgagebankruptcy-scam-warning/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 23:02:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mxw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-Scam Protection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Email Scams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scam Reports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[debt reduction scam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[money laundering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mortgage scam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bankrupcy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[foreclosure]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.scamdex.com/ScamBlog/?p=508</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The US Trustee Program, part of the US DoJ, runs the Federal bankruptcy system, monitoring the conduct of people involved in bankruptcy cases, ensuring compliance with applicable laws and investigating bankruptcy fraud and abuse.
They recently issued the following warning for people who are already overwhelmed by the legal juggernaut of a bankruptcy filing and are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who or What is BobBear?</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Scamblog/~3/I6XzIQvK9Rs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.scamdex.com/ScamBlog/2009/03/bobbear/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:52:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mxw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Email Scams]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.scamdex.com/ScamBlog/?p=502</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In my infrequent callouts to other websites that  (like Scamdex) were  created out of the blind fury experinced by seeing bad people taking money from good people, I have another site for you to take notice of.
But first, a recap:
When Scamdex started in 2004, there were very few sites about scams and Internet fraud; we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gringotts Bank Business Opportunity – Harry Potter Spoof Email</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Scamblog/~3/6jq1PXJYMNI/</link>
		<comments>http://www.scamdex.com/ScamBlog/2009/03/gringotts-bank-business-opportunity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:55:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mxw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Email Scams]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.scamdex.com/ScamBlog/?p=481</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In a lighter vein, here&#8217;s one I knocked up myself &#8211; guess what I&#8217;m reading at the moment!

 Though seems unsolicited, this owlmail is a business proposal to you. I appreciate the fact that you have every reason to be suspension, please note this proposal is very real. I will employ you to read it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hang Seng Bank Shares the Wealth!</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Scamblog/~3/rfoNO9OnC9Y/</link>
		<comments>http://www.scamdex.com/ScamBlog/2009/03/hang-seng-bank-shares-the-wealth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:39:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mxw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advance Fee Fraud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Email Scams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[banking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[money laundering]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[hang seng]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[transfer]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.scamdex.com/ScamBlog/?p=478</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My new friend, Patrick &#8211; I Love this guy &#8211; he contacts me out of the blue &#8211; he&#8217;s a high-up in the Hang Seng Bank and yet he find me, despite my never (to my knowledge) having given anyone the slightest idea that I am interested in helping move large amounts of money about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Insurance Scam Job with tortured bizspeak free!</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Scamblog/~3/aI0bz8RRB0I/</link>
		<comments>http://www.scamdex.com/ScamBlog/2009/03/insurance-scam-job-with-tortured-bizspeak-free/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:14:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mxw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Email Scams]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.scamdex.com/ScamBlog/?p=472</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a cute one &#8211; of course it&#8217;s our old friend the &#8216;transaction processing clerk&#8217; scam, gussied up a little to be an insurance invoicer/reimburser. What caught my eye was the amusing biz speak which looks like it&#8217;s been through the Dialectizer, a website that has been around for years, that will translate any text [...]]]></description>
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