Comments on: FTC Press Conference on Economic Stimulus Scams http://www.financialreflections.com/ftc-press-conference-on-economic-stimulus-scams/864 Personal Finance for those stuck in the middle. Sat, 13 Feb 2010 22:32:09 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Financial Five, Friday March 6th | Financial Reflections http://www.financialreflections.com/ftc-press-conference-on-economic-stimulus-scams/864/comment-page-1#comment-2373 Financial Five, Friday March 6th | Financial Reflections Fri, 06 Mar 2009 16:16:53 +0000 http://www.financialreflections.com/?p=864#comment-2373 [...] Economic Stimulus Scams from LA Times. I love being first.  I wrote about the FTC crackdown on those “get your Obama check” style websites a whole day before the Los Angeles Times.  (I’m sure they’re scared.)  Including a screenshot they ran the next day. You can read more about the FTC crackdown here. [...] [...] Economic Stimulus Scams from LA Times. I love being first.  I wrote about the FTC crackdown on those “get your Obama check” style websites a whole day before the Los Angeles Times.  (I’m sure they’re scared.)  Including a screenshot they ran the next day. You can read more about the FTC crackdown here. [...]

]]> By: the weakonomist http://www.financialreflections.com/ftc-press-conference-on-economic-stimulus-scams/864/comment-page-1#comment-2369 the weakonomist Thu, 05 Mar 2009 13:27:30 +0000 http://www.financialreflections.com/?p=864#comment-2369 I've seen some pretty good phishing scams in the last couple of years. My favorites had to do with the stimulus checks from last year. "Claim an additional stimulus", "You haven't received your full stimulus", "Government giving you money" etc.... I always forward them to spam@uce.gov by forwarding it. If it pretends to be a certain website, I forward most times to abuse@domain.com where domain is the website falsely represented. I’ve seen some pretty good phishing scams in the last couple of years. My favorites had to do with the stimulus checks from last year. “Claim an additional stimulus”, “You haven’t received your full stimulus”, “Government giving you money” etc….

I always forward them to spam@uce.gov by forwarding it. If it pretends to be a certain website, I forward most times to abuse@domain.com where domain is the website falsely represented.

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