International Scams
The Internet has made the world into a village, and some parts of it - for better or worse - have acquired bad reputations. Nigeria, for example, has made scamming into a major national industry, but it's hardly the only place. Other parts of Africa, Eastern Europe and Asia are all known these days for crime. We show you how to avoid the international scams.
Below are our 6 articles in the 'international scams' category:
In 2004 Ireland was forced to block calls to 13 countries because customers ran up huge bills connecting to the Internet. How did that happen? It was all because of an auto-dialling fraud (also known ...
It's a scam that's been around for years, but somehow it just won't go away. The fake lottery scam still finds victims, and along the way it's developed some new wrinkles to make it seem even more ...
Offshore investments have long been touted as a way to get a better return on your money and also pay less tax. In plenty of cases that can be true. But there are also many scam artists out there ...
Some Internet scams are new. Others simply use the new technology to reach more people. The Nigerian Scam, also known as "advance-fee" fraud or simply 419 (for its statute in the Nigerian criminal ...
On the face of it, timeshares can seem like a good idea. You're not buying an entire property at a holiday location, merely a share in one that allows you to use it for a certain number of weeks each ...
More and more people have become used to using laptops and wireless networks for logging on to the Internet these days. We have them in our homes (although you should know that you need to have a ...
