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SCAM WATCH: Internet & SMS Scams - Phishing - Email Fraud

These emails and text messages are real examples of current scams. Learn to identify them. Please forward any scams you receive to Mark Hutten: mbhutten@yahoo.com. They will be posted on this site without your email address.

What To Do If You Have Been Scammed

Have you lost money due to a scam?

Email: mbhutten@gmail.com with a description of how the scam worked (i.e., what happened exactly), and we will try to (a) locate the scam artist(s), (b) work with law enforcement to expedite prosecution, and (c) help you get some - or all - of your money back.

17.6.13

Scam Report: "Ride2Freedom"

I was scammed by a so called christian organazation out of Louisana with a so called office in floridia. I cant seem to get any help from anyone, I have reported it to the federal authorities and the news stations in both both states as well as the attorney general in both states. The organazation is called ride2freedom. It s run by a church out of Hammond, La with a office in Florida. Here is my story:

This company is a total ripoff. They take a application fee of $41 upfront and promises to help put low income people into cars. I paid a 233.00 so call contiact fee to this company and never received a car. I am now in the process of trying to get my money back after so many false promises. After googleing the vin number of the vehicle that I was suppose to receive, I came upon information that the truck was a salvaged vehicle. I got email form a so called finance dept promising delivery of a vehicle with no contact info other than a email. I took company officials 4 days to contact me concerning non-delivery of the vehicle. Now Chris Malachi is saying that it will take up to 14 days for my money to be put back on my card. I use to work at a bank and I know that once a refund is processed by the company, the refund is usually back in the bank within 3-5 days.They cant give any references to verify a delivery of a vehicle, the have a so called finance company with no contact info other than a email. Chris Malachi is a liar because she told me that they were using a finance company from Illinois but an inside source verified that was not true and also told me that no one has actually received a car form this company. they have changed the application fee four times from $25 to $100. I have emailed the paster roie or rosa Duncan and I have not received a reply concerning my refund. According to Chris Malachi (which i believe is a alias) the founder of the program my refund was processed on 05//31/2013. She has given me the run around.
 
Here is a similar story I found on a complaint board: Review all Ride2Freedom, Louisiana complaints

5.6.13

Royal Bank of Scotland - Scam

Dear Mr. Hutton:

I got the following  info from the Web site of the Royal Bank of Scotland (how to deal with scam).
Describe how the scam worked (what happened exactly) and we will try :
a. To locate the scam artists.
b. Work with law enforcement to expedite prosecution.
c. Help you get some or all of your money back.

Here is how it happened.
1. Sometime in September 2012, I received an email from the Group Secretary of RBS that I could possibly be the only
    surviving nearest of kin of my cousin Engr. Dennis Barraca Oleg who died intestate leaving a deposit of 7.5 million GBR.
    She required me to submit several papers to file my claim which I submitted. I was informed later that my claim was
    in order,and that RBS approved of me as the beneficiary(please read all the attachments to this email).

2. The RBS then required me  to pay the activation fee as well as the Cost of Money Transfer(COT).After paying these, the
    RBS sent three remittances to my designated banks,each with a value of 2.5 million GBR.I did not receive these
    remittances because the TAX Dept stopped it for failure to pay for the tax clearance which was 7,500 GBR. At this time
    I was frank to ask them whether they were scamming me.They assured me that I was not being scammed by sending
    a scanned copy of the PROOF OF FUNDS (see attachments).

3. Up to this time, I could not pay the tax clearance because I don't have  the amount and that I was still doubting that I was
    being scammed.

    Perhaps the best way is for me to go to London, have the money transferred to my name,and then pay the tax clearance.
    They did not object to my plan, so perhaps, the INHERITANCE MONEY IS REAL. Nevertheless, please examine the
    documents. If it is not real, I will not be wasting my money by going to London.If it is real, then it is worth the effort to go
    personally to RBS,London to claim this money.   

PLEASE HELP ME SOLVE THIS PROBLEM. There are 8 scanned documents but I can send only one at at time.

28.5.13

Scam from "LUV CHARITY"

Dear Mr Hutten.

I AM WRITING YOU THIS LETTER, BECAUSE I FOUND SOME PEOPLE WHOM I MAY THINK THEY ARE SCAMER'S! ON THE INTERNET.

HER ARE SOME OF THE NAMES YOU CAN SEARCH OUT:  

A MAN CALLED BY THE NAME '' LUV CHARITY '' HE CLAIMS TO BE A MERCHANT FROM ARABIA. AND HE HAS TWO CHEST FULL OF MONEY TO GIVE TO PEOPLE WHOM COULD GIVE IT OUT TO THE NEEDY, POOR CHILDREN. I HAD ALSO PAID $ 780.00 TO HAVE THOES TWO CHEST DELIVERED TO ME. ( MY BIGGEST MISTAKE OF PAYING THE COMPANY THE HAS THE HOLDING OF THE TRUNKS.) IT IS IN MALAYSIA,

2) MRS VERONICA MURPHY WHOM SHE SAY'S WORK FOR THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OF COMPENSATION, AND THE POWER BALL COMPANY. AND THAT THEY ARE HELPING OUT THE '' BLIND AND DEAF, FOR COMPENSATION. I HAVE ALREADY PAID $1,000.00 AND THEY SAID THAT I HAVE BEEN SANCTIONED FOR WHAT I HAVE SAID ABOUT THE POWER BALL COMPANY, I HAD CALLED THEM '' SCAMERS ' AND FRAUD. THAT'S WHY THEY HAVE SANCTIONED ME FOR. I NEED YOUR HELP IN FINDING THESE PEOPLE ASAP. VERONICA MURPHY I NEED TO KNOW IF SHE IS TELLING ME THE TRUTH.

3) ALSO MR ROBERT S. MUELLER IS WHAT HE CALLS HIM SELF, ALSO IS IN THIS WITH MRS MURPHY. I NEED TO FIND OUT IF ALL OF THESE PEOPLE THAT I HAVE MENTION ARE '' SCAMER'S OR ARE THEY REAL PEOPLE. I KNOW '' LUV CHARITY WAS ON MY FRIEND'S REQUEST BUT NOW I DON'T SEE HIM ANYMORE. I WOULD VERY MUCH LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU ABOUT THESE PEOPLE.  PLEASE NOTIFY ME URGENTLY !!! AND TELL ME IF IT'S POSSIBLE TO GET MY MONEY BACK FROM THESE PEOPLE.