Recently there has been a spate of fraud that sends emails headed "Unauthorised Fraud Attempt" stating that user's bank accounts have been hacked etc. This itself is a fraud to get your details. Beware.

Look out for hackers who can access your PC wirelessly and get all your personal info. If you are still using WEP you should change to WPA for added security. Some guy has been trying to get into my PC!

Beware meta fraud where an email tells you that your PC has been hacked or your account has been hacked and asks you for some info to fix it. Never give any info online. Call them first.

There are many others like RANDY BROWN. One way to catch them is to look at names. If they use SMITH, BLACK, BROWN and other common sounding john doe names chances are it is a scammer. These scammers are not very smart in choosing names. You can also sometimes tell by the way the write the email - not typical american english but african phrasing.

THANK GOD for citybank!!!!! If it wasnt for citybank "Randy Brown" or whatever that jerks name is would've stolen $3,000 from me, My bank teller told me it was fake, He almost cashed it to. I'm sooooo upset, and distressed right now, it pisses me off how he has all of my info, my adress, my phone numbers. Im Sure he will sell all of our info to his other scammers to try and scam us some other way. PLEASE WATCH OUT AND BE CAREFUL!!! DON'T ACCEPT CALLS FROM UNKNOWN NUMBERS, DONT GIVE YOUR ADRESS OUT ANYMORE, DONT E-MAIL ANYONE YOU DONT KNOW BACK!!!!! I have definately learned from my mistake and will never trust anyone i do not know!!!!!

Look out for job offer scams that come in emails. They somehow know what line you are in and offer a similar job but its really an ID stealing racket. You could lose your identity.

Beware of Kidnap scams like this one: http://news.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne%2BN ews/Crime/Story/A1Story20091125-182306.h tml

Beware of this so called "Randy Brown" from malaysia wanting a babysitter he went as far as sending me a $2,800 check for a nintendo ds game for his daughter and even sending me a voice mail on my cell phone please do not fall for this scam it is a big waste of time and a big headache!!

This "Randy Brown" from Malaysia is currently "hiring me". He has sent me 3 e-mails already and the last one is about the Nintendo game. Plus, it also says that I have been accepted for the job. Wheew, thank goodness I found this website. Now, I can really know for sure that this is just a scam. I had a feeling that it is but now I'm sure. He said that he got my contact through www.mybabysitting.com which was actually impossible because I never signed up for it. Plus, I went to the website, the language it was in was french. Wow, this dude got me excited for a moment. I knew it was too good to be true. I was so close to doing the Nintendo thingy too. Good thing I didn't. Thanks to all you people!!!

I'm also commenting on this said, "Randy Brown" story. I fell victim to by trying to helping him and his wife and 5 year old, Maria. (Found through babysitters.com and then gave it a chance) I was planning on babysitting Maria on the weekends. After I was accepted, I was asked to purchase a Nintendo DS, games, etc. and bring it to our first meeting. He also sent me $3,000 in moneyorders "accidently" and had to send the difference to a third party....In the end I had a whole new ordeal that I had to straighten out with the bank. :( Thousands of dollars worth...