How can it be so easy to fall into a romance based on text messages, internet liaisons and phone calls? An expert says scammers know exactly what their victims want to hear.

Nigerian police have arrested a man after the death of a West Australian woman who was caught up in an online romance scam.

A judge jails a Melbourne couple for fraud, acknowledging their imprisonment will be difficult for their young daughters and the family members who will need to look after the girls while their parents are in jail.

Over four years, Bobby Singh made more than $2 million in subsidies for students enrolled at this Melbourne training college. It never taught a single class. But it all came undone in one phone call.

School principal Michelle Wilson spent a stressful two hours on the phone, convinced she owed $8,000 and could soon be arrested if she didn't pay up. Then she realised the whole thing was an elaborate hoax.

Police arrest a 67-year-old man and his son on Queensland's Sunshine Coast over an alleged line dancing scam after searching for the pair for more than a year.

A self-described online news service operator who admitted to duping a woman out of $5,000 in Tasmania is wanted on similar allegations in South Australia, a court hears.

Adelaide police say two men turned up to a victim's house with an eftpos machine demanding money after earlier calling him pretending to be from the tax office. The man has told the ABC that he "knew they weren't legit".

Just how easy is it for scammers to access your superannuation? Trevor Riessen is still waiting for answers after cyber criminals raided his savings through myGov.

Online scammers operating through social media and at least one crowdfunding site trick friends of a pilot who died in a Darwin plane crash into donating money for his funeral.

Robyn Hausler continued paying her mortgage and rates for six years, not realising the house she'd lived in for 20 years wasn't hers anymore. Now a court has ruled she can have her property back.

Director Jon M. Chu said while sequels to the hit romantic comedy “Crazy Rich Asians” are in the works, he and producers are not currently casting for “new lead roles,” as falsely indicated by a phony press release and social media post, which have since been taken down. Chu took to his Twitter account on […]

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A very long scam e-mail from Linda Zhong who lives in another dimension in time.

Russian phishing scammers pretending to be the UPS, sending you a UPS Tracking number through FilesTube. Confused? Well we are!

Britis Airways E-ticket Phishing scam

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The shortest phishing scam e-mail ever!

This phishing scammer decided to skip the normal mumbo jumbo and just send the phishing link.

Another lame attempt at defrauding honest tax-paying South Africans. These phishing scammers could have at least used a better logo in their e-mail.

A Yahoo Notification from AOL? Are the phishing scammers getting confused?

An e-mail from Yahoo (or is that AOL?) to Yahoo about your mailbox exceeding its limits... What limits? Are you confused yet?

This is not an e-mail from David Tanguay, it is from oldest-trick-in-the-book-419-scammer.

BARR. Katie Richardson wants you to contact DR HILARRY NDUBEM. Do not contact any of these swindlers... ever!

Quick an easy loans... um... scams.

An inheritance fund scammer that requires you to eat the documents to get the funds.

A woman from Cambodia who is dying scam you.

An extremely legitimate looking phishing scam aimed at NatWest credit card holders.

The 419 scammers are afraid that they are going to pay your fake fund into the wrong bank account, so they want to make sure if they have the correct banking details... how considerate of them.

Phishing scammers targeting Nedbank customers with malware.

Malware phishing scammers targeting ABSA customers with the ZBot Trojan.

A very lame attempt at defrauding Yahoo! users.

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Ms Veronica Cordier, a 419 loan offer scammer that's by the book.

A SCREAMING 419 scammer. Maybe he is frustrated because nobody believes in the $700,000 prize money.

Larry the 419 scammer is sorry for invading your privacy.

Mr James Morrison, the Trustfund Loan Lender. Sounds like a 419 superhero.

Mr Larry Smith's rely to our questions.

Follow-up e-mail from Hillary Ndubem, the new beneficiary of Mrs Ruth Mohammed's funds, as assigned by Barr. Katie Richardson.

A response from Fang Wengen, the lawyer of Mrs Yang Huiyan

Cliff is offering you the job of shipping manager assistant. The problem is, there is no job, so there is no salary, only a scammer waiting to take your money. This is the worst type of scammer, taking money from unemployed people.

Mrs Sulak is dying, but she will always stay alive, long enough for someone to reply. That's 419 scam law!

Rosa Daniel wants you to come to Rome to pick up a high priority package.

A Liberty Life Debit Order Authorization from Microsoft, via Standard Bank. This is enough to make anyone confused. Clearly these phishing scammers did not think this one through.

You need to contact Mr Mark Van Jas... but what if you are under the age of 18?

A very convincing Paypal Phishing scam. No matter how hard they try, to the trained eye, it will always be obvious that this is a scam.

An eBay phishing scammer trying to pique your curiosity.

A fake Chase e-mail that has PHISHING written all over it.

So you are no longer winning lotteries, you are getting donations from generous lottery winners.