Scam Central - India Is the New Nigria For Scam Artists

[universalcomputers]

Report recently read shows that India has now overtaken Nigeria as the #1 place where scam artists are.

https://www.scamguard.com/list-of-scams/?gclid=CPuo36qe8MUCFQoXHwodUJsA_w

[dccollectibles]

Doesn't surprise me. They've "scammed" me out of years of my life in tech support calls.

[universalcomputers]

And who is exactly to blame for this scam. The United States thats who. Most of the technical support for US companies, including customer service from credit card companies and banks, are based in in that area. So the finger is to blame to the companies in the United States. Since they built the reputation, scammers exploited it.

[universalcomputers]

What doesnt surpise us one bit is the next scam is going to be cellular phones. The thing is that device is on people at all times.

Speaking about hacks. The IRS got hacked today. Reports said that some 100,000 people's informaiton got stolen.

http://extratorrent.cc/article/4318/hackers+broke+into+irs+and+stole+data+of+100+000+taxpayers.html

[AtMemoryLane]

Although I am sure much of that article is true, please realize that it is one great big advertisement for your own dollar...which is a scam in itself. Safeguard owns LifeLock, does it not?

[universalcomputers]

The post is true everyone is showing it including the WSJ

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=Hackers+Broke+into+IRS+and+Stole+Data+of+100%2C000+Taxpayers&gbv=2&oq=Hackers+Broke+into+IRS+and+Stole+Data+of+100%2C000+Taxpayers&gs_l=heirloom-hp.3...2125.2125.0.3110.1.1.0.0.0.0.63.63.1.1.0....0...1ac..34.heirloom-hp..1.0.0.y3o_sHK9u54

Remember the best way to make money is for companies to prey on people's paranoia and make them believe whatever they hear. In all cases it all revolves around one reason the $$$$

[universalcomputers]

We got scammed ourselves, but it wasnt a breach. A vendor that we were using to buy computer hardware was selling our credit card information. The woman that processed all the orders had every single company's credit card information. She had Yahoo Chat opened on the computer and would relay the numbers to someone on the other end. We called the company and they denied everything.

So to catch them in the act we opened a corporate bank account and instead of giving them an actual credit card, we gave them a debit card linked to the bank account. The bank account had $1.00 sitting in it. No one else had the debit/credit card number nor did anyone else know about it except the branch manager at the bank. Loe and behold, a week later some "test charges" were coming through after the first purchase from that company. Then there was an attempted dentist charge from Washington state, then another medical charge from Georgia. We found mp3 song purchases on one credit card like 152 charges in 3 days for mp3 music. They used the same credit card to try to pull our credit report, the whole works. But luckily we did everything under the TIN not the SS.

From that point we got a letter from the bank, got our attornies involved and handed everything everything over to the FBI since they handle identify theft. Her name was Kellie Lopez Gonzales. The company is http://www.imagemicro.com, they also went by the name of http://www.partforcomputer.com and they are still in operation.

5 years later the company is still in business