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Facebook are coming under a lot of flack for allowing these stupid threads which thousands of people seem to answer like 'What was your first car / school / girlfriend's name etc', because these are very often one of the security questions companies ask when you forget your password. I cannot...

There is a scam doing the rounds in the UK. You order a download of a household manual for a small amount, a couple of quid, which is legitimate, and then you get billed an amount of 24.90 every month from a company called helpandmanuals.com

I think there was an episode of Dark Mirror which was based on this type of email - but this time it turned out to be true and the hacker did have the video from the webcam

He was the grand daddy of them all. Makes a few Indians in Bangalore look like a bunch of amateurs. I saw a few programs about him. He was supposedly audited by one of the big accountancy firms many times and they didn't come up with anything. They did ask some questions but he gave them some...

Bernie Madoff one of the biggest scammers of all time died today. He Madoff with nearly $65 Billion. The Ponzi scheme to end all Ponzi schemes

ID protection scam doing the rounds in the States. They tell you all your personal info is now available on the Dark Web with a dodgy link attached. Of course for a few bucks they can make it all go away. What they forget is that there have been so many major breaches of information by big...

The pre-recorded ones are the most annoying as you can't vent your anger at them. With the other ones at least, if you have some spare time, you can wind the other person up and get some sense of payback

Amazon have some gizmo for sale which comes pre-loaded with thousands of known scam phone numbers and blocks them. I wonder how good this would actually be as these feckers use robo-callers which continually change their numbers.

A few years ago I had a spate of scam calls purporting to be from the tax people at the IRS, usual thing with each call ramping up the threat level of being arrested etc if I didn't make a payment immediately. You could register with a number in the States which was supposed to cut down the...