Scam Prevention – The Gadget Scam

Posted by admin | Prevent Scam | Saturday 18 December 2010 7:34 pm

This video shows the team demonstrating how hustlers are selling ‘miracle’ gadgets, such as this one: A machine that can add £50 to your Oyster card – for free. Just pay £220 for the machine and you’ll be laughing. Or the hustlers will be at least…

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What is an SMS competition & trivia scam?

Posted by admin | Prevent Scam | Saturday 11 December 2010 6:39 pm

An SMS competition or SMS trivia scam usually arrives as a text message and may encourage you to enter a competition for a great prize (like an mp3 player). The message (or sometimes, an advertisement) could also invite you to take part in a trivia competition, with a great prize on offer if you answer a certain number of questions correctly.

The scammers make money by charging extremely high rates for the messages you send, and any further messages they send to you. These charges could be as high as $4 for each message sent and/or received.

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Scam Prevention – Hotel Key Switch

Posted by admin | Prevent Scam | Friday 3 December 2010 6:35 pm

The hustlers obtain a hotel customer’s room key – then are able to gain entry to their room and steal everthing in sight. Find out more and try to prevent it in the future…

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For best result, you might want to start the video and pause it for about 10 sec before resuming it. This is to allow the video to play it in your screen smoothly without any intermediate stoppage.

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