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Archive for July, 2008


07/28, 2008

E-mail scam demands user details

Internet users in Guernsey are warned about an e-mail scam which demands password and birth date information.

07/25, 2008

Residents warned over e-mail scam

An e-mail scam is circulating the Isle of Man where people are being duped into sending out personal and financial details.

07/24, 2008

Bank phishing attacks on the rise

Attempts by internet fraudsters to con people into revealing their bank account details are rising, a banking body says.

07/15, 2008

Nigerian football conmen exposed

An undercover BBC investigation exposes how African footballers are being conned by Nigerian fraudsters.

07/15, 2008

‘I was victim of African football conmen’

Nigerian Isaiah Akpan was 17 when a conman emailed him claiming he could arrange a trial for an English club. The BBC's Edward Main tells his story.