Posts Tagged ‘ Financial Scams ’

Beware - Crooks Exploiting Banking Turmoil

Oct 13th, 2008 | By James Green | Category: Investments & Investing, Rants & Raves

Internet fraudsters are exploiting the banking meltdown by attempting to trick users into handing over details of their bank accounts.
These crooks - called Phishers - set up false websites which look like the websites of real banks and send out emails trying to get people to log on to these sites and by so doing [...]



FSA Warning On New Investor Scams

Aug 19th, 2008 | By James Green | Category: Investments

Investors have been warned to beware of fraudsters targeting former customers of rogue stockbroker Pacific Continental Securities.
The UK Financial Services Authority closed down Pacific Continental Securities in June of 2007. The company had been authorised as a broker for several years but had a turbulent and contentious history. Having done little to police the matter [...]



Beware of Money Transfer Opportunity Scams

Jun 24th, 2008 | By James Green | Category: Business Opportunities, Investments

Despite having some pretty good anti-spam software hardly a day goes by without at least one spam email reaching my in box offering me a part-time job which involves transferring money through my bank account on behalf of someone else.
I’m sure you get them too, and they are also popping up on the internet under [...]