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Facebook Scam! Woman Wired $4k Abroad
The negative social consequences of Facebook are getting increasingly apparent. Just recently, a woman was murdered as a result of Facebook jealousy. Today, we received news that a woman from Missouri...
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China’s Xiaomi Phone Gets Cloned, But Probably an Online Scam
It's a scam! The Dami phone spam ads that use photoshopped Xiaomi images. The Chinese startup Xiaomi seems to have hit the big-time – it now has its own local clone. Or, rather, it appears to have a...
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Train Ticket Buying Software is Mostly a Scam (Yeah, Big Surprise)
We’ve done a fair bit of reporting on China’s online train ticket sales system this year, which has been buggy as hell when it’s not busy hating the poor. Since it’s such a hassle to buy a ticket...
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The Red Herring Awards Scam
(Image: brooketrout.com) This past weekend, we’ve received a lot of emails from startups proudly telling us that they won the Red Herring Awards. Sure, Red Herring was an award brand name to be proud...
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Indonesia’s Gun E-Commerce Site Exposed as a Money-Grabbing Fraud
Credit: ontariolandlords.org The team behind Indonesian gun e-commerce site Gudang Senjata (1) has been apprehended by the police a couple of weeks ago, just days after the story went public on Detik...
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Scammers in China Exploit Apple to Turn Fake iPhones into Real Ones
Apple has been taking quite a bit of stick over the last month for its after-sales service practices in China, and perhaps rightfully so. But instead of being exploited by Apple, police have discovered...
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Indonesia’s Worst Online Scams (and How to Report Them)
Today I received an SMS which claimed to be from Rocket Internet owned online shop Lazada. The SMS talks about “crazy discounts” that you can check out on a Lazada Blogspot page (pictured above). Yes,...
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$4.1 million missing after a Bitcoin trading site in China goes dark
Chinese Bitcoin exchange website GBL seems to have fallen off the face of the planet, along with RMB 25 million ($4.1 million) of its users’ money, according to CoinDesk. The site went down on October...
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Cash Cash Pinoy CEO: We are not a scam
Are travel deals the best way to scam online buyers? Around two years ago, a number of Filipino consumers were victims of daily deal sites’ travel deals. This time around, fingers are being pointed at...
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Facebook Scam! Woman Wired $4k Abroad
The negative social consequences of Facebook are getting increasingly apparent. Just recently, a woman was murdered as a result of Facebook jealousy. Today, we received news that a woman from Missouri...
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China’s Xiaomi Phone Gets Cloned, But Probably an Online Scam
It's a scam! The Dami phone spam ads that use photoshopped Xiaomi images. The Chinese startup Xiaomi seems to have hit the big-time – it now has its own local clone. Or, rather, it appears to have a...
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Train Ticket Buying Software is Mostly a Scam (Yeah, Big Surprise)
We’ve done a fair bit of reporting on China’s online train ticket sales system this year, which has been buggy as hell when it’s not busy hating the poor. Since it’s such a hassle to buy a ticket...
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The Red Herring Awards Scam
(Image: brooketrout.com) This past weekend, we’ve received a lot of emails from startups proudly telling us that they won the Red Herring Awards. Sure, Red Herring was an award brand name to be proud...
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Indonesia’s Gun E-Commerce Site Exposed as a Money-Grabbing Fraud
Credit: ontariolandlords.org The team behind Indonesian gun e-commerce site Gudang Senjata (1) has been apprehended by the police a couple of weeks ago, just days after the story went public on Detik...
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Scammers in China Exploit Apple to Turn Fake iPhones into Real Ones
Apple has been taking quite a bit of stick over the last month for its after-sales service practices in China, and perhaps rightfully so. But instead of being exploited by Apple, police have discovered...
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Indonesia’s Worst Online Scams (and How to Report Them)
Today I received an SMS which claimed to be from Rocket Internet owned online shop Lazada. The SMS talks about “crazy discounts” that you can check out on a Lazada Blogspot page (pictured above). Yes,...
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$4.1 million missing after a Bitcoin trading site in China goes dark
Chinese Bitcoin exchange website GBL seems to have fallen off the face of the planet, along with RMB 25 million ($4.1 million) of its users’ money, according to CoinDesk. The site went down on October...
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Cash Cash Pinoy CEO: We are not a scam
Are travel deals the best way to scam online buyers? Around two years ago, a number of Filipino consumers were victims of daily deal sites’ travel deals. This time around, fingers are being pointed at...
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In China, games are a major source of money for online scammers
The age of online gaming that we live in is wonderful, because it allows us to connect and play with new people from all over the world. We build teams, make friends, and sometimes even marry, the...
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Startup or Scamup?
I know the title of this article is dogmatic and I don’t mean to imply that all startups are trying to run scams, but there is certainly a fair share of those who are only chasing the overhyped,...
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