Watch your credit card reports everyone.

There's a company down in Florida called

"EST"

They look up valid credit card numbers and charge you for services that you never bought.

They charge anywhere between .13 to hundreds of dollars.

Do not dispute it. This will only encourage EST to charge you more money. In other words, your dispute will validate your credit card with EST and begin billing your credit card for hundred of dollars.

Best advice: Cancel current credit card and get a new one immediately.

Here's a LINK that explains it all.

Gee John, did you fall for it? My best freind answered This kinda scam and paid for it and paid for it and paid for it until he got collection agency who almost ruined his good credit.

I was dying in 2001 and I got burned for a $48 mac subscription that turned into a $500 collection agency bill. They got the money.(the magazine folded in 1999 or 2000 so I thought that's why I never got another issue) I almost lost my life and all they want is my money!I was in no condtion to complain for my rights.

I just got an obviously bogus job offer from someone who probably saw my resume on one of the job search websites I use. It's funny. Here's the email.

From: "Tricia Numbers" tricianumbers-at-gmail.com
Friday, February 6, 2009 1:33 PM

Dear Luigi Novi,

We would like to offer you a position of an administrative assistant at TOXOCO Money Transfer Ltd. The candidate to this post has to be very good at data input, perform a very accurate work. It is a part-time distant position implying staying in touch with customer support department daily. The basic requirements, functions and list of responsibilities of administrative assistant can be located at our website

TOXOCO HR Department.

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You were referred to TOXOCO Money Transfer Ltd. If you feel you received this message by mistake or do not wish to receive future emails, please reply to this message with remove in the subject
heading. We will promtly update accordingly. We apologize for any inconvenience caused.

I clicked on the link to their site, and found this. Now how many things jump out at you from both the email and that site?

I was so amused, I couldn't resist sending this reply:

To: tricianumbers-at-gmail.com
Subject: Re: Attn. Luigi Novi : Part-time position of Administrative Assistant in TOXOCO Money Transfer Ltd.

Oh wow!

-A company whose site consists of a single page, as evidenced by the fact that when I tried to go to toxocoemployment.com, witout the /job.html suffix, it just redirected me to the same page?

-A company whose sole webpage, instead of providing a search function for available jobs, or mentions a specific job opening by a code number, as is typically found on such sites, simply says, "Become an Administrative Assistant", as if it's intended for use by an indefinite number of people?

-A company whose human resources representative doesn't use a company email account that has its own domain, but a GMail account?

-A company whose human resources representative goes by the name "Tricia Numbers"?

-A company that requires its employees to use a personal credit card to send and receive funds?

Sure, count me in!

After all, I'm that gullible!

You Net scammers are so cute and amusing. If you had brains you might actually present some kind of danger to me. :-)

LOL.

Congratulations, Luigi. Now the spammer knows that you're a "live" address.

Indeed. Keep an eye on your Credit Card bill and note any unauthorized purchases

They don't have my credit card bill, and already know it's a live address, since they sent me that email, based no doubt on seeing it on those jobs websites.

Oh, and almost forgot this one:

-A company whose marketing and branding experts are so clueless that the come up with the company name "Toxoco", not realizing that a name so similar to the word "toxic" will be bad for its public image?"

I get those garbage e-mails as well. At my work e-mail address. Which is not on any jobs websites. I don't even read them; they get sent to our "Spamhelp" people.
By the way, "Toxoco" is also similar to "Texaco". Which is in a completely different line of business.

I got one of those recently. An e-mail saying that I was the random winner of a multi-million dollar lottery and that they needed my bank information so they could deposit my winnings.

What d'ya think I am . . . STUPID?

Actually, Todd, they do.

Gullible, naive or misinformed to be more precise.

Ah, it was personally addressed, not addressed to, "Dear youremailhere@example.com". So yeah, they got it from somewhere.

A famous opera singer who recently died, his lawyer wrote to my email saying
I have inherited his 31 Million smackers.the catch is I have to give it to the poor.

(funny, I am unemployed).

Woweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

hey i got 7 million out of a lady 40ish , dying of cancer, so
i wrote back to her and she wants a $750 fee to
get that $7 mill.u hmmmmmm.

hey i just got scammed by at and t, someone billed my wife's credit card $14.95 for voicemail , which i already have on my cell phone its suppose to be free with the billing anyways, , not an add-on charge she complained to me and i did do it which i didnt,,so we called at and t up And got hung up by their nice s ervice reps 3 times. finally they redirected me to number 4 and said they want a cancelleation fee, $17.00...so we paid $17 to unauthroize a voicemail phone which we already got for free which came with the cell phone..

maybe i'll yell at my friends or dont talk to anyone.

??????

gee I wonder who that poster could be......

I recieved two e-mails today, from two different "bank managers" in "Nigeria" telling me that "the President of Nigeria" has authorized them to release bank accounts to me one in the amount of $2.5 million, and the other in the amount of $5.5 million. And they will send me the ATM cards for these accounts as soon as I ....

Do I look like I just fell off the turnip-truck? You would think that they would promise a reasonably believable amount, instead of promising the moon. Most people greedy enough to do something illegal and unethical for 2 million dollars are greedy enough to do it for 2 thousand, and are less cautious about their co-conspirators' motives at that level.

And after the first year, is there anyone not immediately suspicious of a "Nigerian" banker? Try to come up with a different location, at least, for your bogus bank. If I were running the scam, my bank would be in the Cayman Islands. (At least until the buzz started, then it would move, and maybe become a tax shelter, like a children's hospital in The Sudan. Or maybe a mission church in Cambodia.)

I got a email to my work account from someone claiming they were in England, had been robbed, and needed money. I felt sending an email saying "Hey didn't this happen to you in Spain last year" but I didn't.

They event tried to scam Michael Shermer, the founder of the Skeptics Society and the publisher of Skeptic magazine.

Dr. Shermer recounted the hilarious series of exchanges he had with this idiot at the JREF site here.