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- Is domain banned from using Google Adsense? Scamomatic.com is not banned and allowed to display Adsense ads, first confirmation of allowed to display ads status date is 2013-12-04 04:27:47.
- SCAMwatch is a website run by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC). SCAMwatch provides information to consumers and small businesses about how to recognise, avoid and report scams.
You can check out lottery annonucements by going to 'scam-o-matic.com. Copy and past your email into their space and they will tell you if it is real. If you didn't buy a ticket, you probably are being scammed. You will also want to report this and they will tell you how.
'Screamingly funny.' '.like Larry David on happy dust.' –Los Angeles Times 'It's a great show. It's a smart show. It's a skillful show. It's an important show. COMPILATION: gcc -o scam-o-matic scam-o-matic.c USAGE: scam-o-matic /dev/sdX /dev/sdX - should be the path to the device node of the card. /dev/sdf The program will prompt you for everything else. Sometimes, one pass gives some unreliable results, that screw, when you verify them. A second shot gives you some better ones.
- An email address mentioned inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
- This email looks like a fake lottery scam.
Consider the following facts about real lotteries:- They do not notify winners by email.
- You can not win without first buying a lottery ticket.
- They do not randomly select email addresses to award prizes to.
- They do not use free email accounts (Yahoo, Hotmail, etc) to communicate with you.
- They do not tell you to call a mobile phone number.
- They do not tell you to keep your winnings secret.
- They will never ask a winner to pay any fees to receive a prize!
- The following phrases should put you on alert:
- 'from: the desk of':
a common phrase found in 419 scams - 'claim agent', 'claims agent', 'claims office':
real lotteries do not use a 'claim agent' / 'fiduciary agent' - 'million united states dollars', ',000,000':
they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals
- 'from: the desk of':
- This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
- +447031928715 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
- This email lists free webmail addresses. Besides personal use for legitimate purposes, use of such addresses is also typical for scams. NOTE: Lotteries, banks, government agencies and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
- [email protected] (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
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Here is the text you submitted: FROM: THE DESK OF THE E-MAIL PROMOTIONS MANAGER INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT, MICROSOFT CORPORATION WORLD LOTTERY UNITED KINGDOM.61-70 SOUTHAMPTON ROW BLOOMSBURY LONDON UNITED KINGDOM WC1B 4AR.
REFERENCE NO: 875061725/07
BATCH NO: 505649092/188
WINNING NO: PB8701/LPRC
WINNER: NO17
ELECTRONIC EMAIL AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION AWARD PRESENTATION CENTER: UNITED KINGDOM
DEAR WINNER,
MICROSOFT CO-OPERATION MANAGEMENT WORLDWIDE ARE PLEASED TO INFORM YOU THAT YOU ARE A WINNER OF OUR ANNUAL MS-WORLD LOTTERY (MEGA JACKPOT LOTTO PROGRAMME) CONDUCTED ON:5 TH OF MAY 2009
YOUR PERSONAL E-MAIL ADDRESS OR COMPANY EMAIL WAS ATTACHED TO THIS YEAR’S MSWLL. WITH SERIAL NUMBER 7741137002 DREW THE LUCKY NUMBERS 5-13-33-37-42, AND CONSEQUENTLY WON IN THE FIRST LOTTERY CATEGORY. YOU HAVE THEREFORE BEEN APPROVED FOR LUMP SUMS OF $ 1,000,000 (USD ONE MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS) PAYABLE IN CASH CREDITED TO FILE REF NO: ILP/HW 875061725/07 THIS IS FROM TOTAL PRIZE MONEY OF $ 25,000,000 USD, SHARED AMONG THE TWENTY-FIVE (25) LUCKY INTERNATIONAL WINNERS IN FIRST AND SECOND CATEGORY.
ALL PARTICIPANTS WERE SELECTED FROM WORLDWIDE A COMPUTER BALLOTING SYSTEM THROUGH OUR MICROSOFT COMPUTER BALLOT SYSTEM DRAWN FROM 21,000 NAMES, 3,000 NAMES FROM EACH CONTINENT (CANADA, ASIA, AUSTRALIA, UNITED STATE, EUROPE, MIDDLE EAST, AFRICA AND OCEANIA, AS PART OF INTERNATIONAL 'E-MAIL' PROMOTIONS PROGRAMME, WHICH IS CONDUCTED ANNUALLY FOR OUR PROMINENT MS -WORD USERS ALL OVER THE WORLD TO ENCOURAGE THE USE OF INTERNET AND COMPUTERS WORLDWIDE.
YOUR FUND (CERTIFIED CHEQUE) HAS BEEN INSURED WITH YOUR REF NO: ILP/HW-475061725/07 AND WILL BE READY FOR TRANSFER AS SOON AS YOU CONTACT YOUR CLAIM AGENT DR SMITH WALKER . YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS SHOULD BE USED IN ALL CORRESPONDENCE WITH YOUR CLAIMS OFFICER, PLEASE NOTE THAT, YOU ARE TO CONTACT YOUR CLAIMS OFFICER VIA EMAIL OR TELEPHONE AS WE ARE PROMOTING THE USE OF E-MAIL. ALSO YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO CALL HIM TO CONFIRM YOUR WINNINGS AND GOVERNMENT TAX PAYMENT THAT IS ALL, AS HE WILL PROVIDE YOU WITH THE NECESSARY DETAILS ON HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE. AS PART OF OUR SECURITY PROTOCOL YOU ARE TO QUOTE THIS SECURITY CODE MSW/MAY/XX07 TO YOUR CLAIMING AGENT. THIS IS TO PREVENT SCAM.
CONTACT YOUR CLAIMS AGENT OFFICER IN UNITED KINGDOM.
NAME: DR. SMITH WALKER
EMAIL: [email protected]
TELEPHONE: +447031928715
NOTE: IN ORDER TO AVOID MISTAKES, PLEASE REMEMBER TO QUOTE YOUR REFERENCE AND BATCH NUMBERS AND YOUR SECURITY CODE OF MSW/MAY/XX07 IN ALL CORRESPONDENCES WITH YOUR CLAIMS OFFICER. DO NOT REPLY ANY OTHER MAILS LIKE THIS ON NET, AS THEY ARE A LOT OF SCAM ARTIST OUT THERE PRETENDING TO BE US.YOU MAY SEE MAILS LIKE THIS DO NOT REPLY. DO CONTACT YOUR CLAIMS OFFICER, DR. SMITH WALKER IN UNITED KINGDOM. YOU WILL BE ASKED TO PROVIDE SOME DETAILS AND AS WELL LET YOU KNOW THE COUNTRY OF YOUR PAYING CENTRE AND ALSO TO ENABLE THE OFFICE PROCEED WITH YOUR WINNING CERTIFICATE AND FILE KEEPING.
CONGRATULATIONS, ONCE MORE FROM THE ENTIRE MANAGEMENT AND STAFF OF MICROSOFT CO-OPERATION TO ALL OUR LUCKY WINNERS. THANK YOU FOR BEING PART OF THIS PROMOTIONAL LOTTERY PROGRAM. OUR SPECIAL THANKS AND GRATITUDE TO ALL THE ASSOCIATES FOR ALLEVIATING POVERTY ROUND THE WORLD.
SINCERELY.
MRS BETH MOOD
Well, I’ve been scammed. You might have heard of the SD card scam, when you buy a card, and it reports to be bigger, than it actually is, and whatever you write beyond the boundary of the really available space gets lost.
I ordered a bunch of 5 microSD cards, 4GiB each, and they were a pure scam with about 115 MiB instead of 4 GiB.
Luckily, I managed to get my money back, via opening a dispute and later a claim (Scammers didn’t want to give the money back, did they?), but the cards still remained here.
To test such shitty cards there exist 2 tools: h2testw and f3. First for windows, second for linux. Thy figure out the real capacity for you. I didn’t like them, because they took ages to scan one 4 GiB card. And, they operated upon a upon a filesystem, that I didn’t like as well. So I wrote my own tool.
It’s dumb as hell, and was created while f3 was still scanning one card. And it’s a lot faster. Meet ‘scam-o-matic’.
It writes some preudorandom data to the card, until it detects something bad. Usually that happens when we reach the boundary of ‘good’, somewhat ‘reliable’ memory. Then it double-checks the region, and if everything is fine (e.g. no mismatches between first and second pass) it creates a partition table for you, with one partition that covers only working area of the card.
Now just format it, alter the type with cfdisk, and make use of it.
The ugly (I mean it, really ugly) source code can be found at github
I ordered a bunch of 5 microSD cards, 4GiB each, and they were a pure scam with about 115 MiB instead of 4 GiB.
Luckily, I managed to get my money back, via opening a dispute and later a claim (Scammers didn’t want to give the money back, did they?), but the cards still remained here.
To test such shitty cards there exist 2 tools: h2testw and f3. First for windows, second for linux. Thy figure out the real capacity for you. I didn’t like them, because they took ages to scan one 4 GiB card. And, they operated upon a upon a filesystem, that I didn’t like as well. So I wrote my own tool.
It’s dumb as hell, and was created while f3 was still scanning one card. And it’s a lot faster. Meet ‘scam-o-matic’.
It writes some preudorandom data to the card, until it detects something bad. Usually that happens when we reach the boundary of ‘good’, somewhat ‘reliable’ memory. Then it double-checks the region, and if everything is fine (e.g. no mismatches between first and second pass) it creates a partition table for you, with one partition that covers only working area of the card.
Now just format it, alter the type with cfdisk, and make use of it.
The ugly (I mean it, really ugly) source code can be found at github
USAGE: scam-o-matic /dev/sdX
/dev/sdX – should be the path to the device node of the card.
e.g. /dev/sdf
/dev/sdX – should be the path to the device node of the card.
e.g. /dev/sdf
The program will prompt you for everything else. Sometimes, one pass gives some unreliable results,
that screw, when you verify them. A second shot gives you some better ones.
Have fun.
that screw, when you verify them. A second shot gives you some better ones.
Have fun.
Example output with time consumption measurement:
necromant@ilwyn:~/Dev/software/scam-o-matic$ time sudo ./scam-o-matic /dev/sdf
!!!WARNING!!! I will now destroy all data on the device /dev/sdf
!!!WARNING!!! If you are ok with that - type OK & press enter
OK
Rock'n'roll, then!
Device reports to be 4194304000 bytes long.
Sectors are presumably 512 bytes each.
!!!WARNING!!! Last chance to stop. Are you sure? If so - type YES
YES
Starting a desructive surface test
Testing at position: 115343360
Ooops: 0xE383DF81 vs 0x8D5A303E
Mismatch at 115834880 detected
Sorry, dude, but it look like you've been scammed.
Or you might just have a old'n'corrupt card.
In case of scam you still have 115834876 usable bytes
That we can salvage. Let me double check the area for overwrites
Double checking at position: 113246208/115834876
Ooops: 0x202059EE vs 0x2122330B
Double checking at position: 115343360/115834876
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Ooops: 0xE383DF81 vs 0x8D5A303E
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The region looks fine. That's 0% of reported capacity.
Clearing first sector..
Would you like me to run fdisk and
Automagically create a partition, that will use only
Go to casino games. the really avaliable space? (YEP/NOPE)YEP
Creating partition with 224191 sectors. Command line below
(echo n; echo p; echo 1; echo 2048; echo +224191; echo w)|fdisk /dev/sdf
Устройство не содержит ни верной таблицы разделов DOS, ни метки диска Sun, SGI или OSF
Building a new DOS disklabel with disk identifier 0x4fc8d399.
Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them.
After that, of course, the previous content won't be recoverable.
Предупреждение: неверный флаг 0x0000 таблицы разделов 4 будет исправлен записью
Scam-o-matic
Команда (m для справки): Partition type:
p primary (0 primary, 0 extended, 4 free)
e extended
Select (default p): Номер раздела (1-4, по умолчанию 1): Первый сектор (2048-8191999, по умолчанию 2048): Last сектор, +секторы or +size{K,M,G} (2048-8191999, по умолчанию 8191999):
Команда (m для справки): Таблица разделов была изменена!
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Вызывается ioctl() для перечитывания таблицы разделов.
Синхронизируются диски.
I've done all I could. Good Bye.
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