Chain
“Do you want to win a Volvo, send this email on to 10 friends” is an example of an e-mail that was widely circulated in the early 2000s. It was of course not the only one. Another e-mail promised a delivery of a box of red wine if you passed it on to 20 people. Another time you would get a modern WAP phones by Ericsson. Common to all of these emails was that nobody ever won anything, but that they instead littered our inboxes to curse.
Modem hijacking
Sooner rang we set up the internet with our phone modem. Telia suffered a year of the number of their subscribers received their modems hijacked. A software from the internet linked up yourself from expensive international number instead of a modem terminal. Consumer Agency to intervene to require that Telia replaced all customers who duped against their installed a security code. Thankfully we do not have now this problem because we are now driving through our fixed broadband instead.
The missed call
Suddenly, someone called from a number that began with the 00246, which shone like missed calls on the display. Curious that you can be pushed the call-back button, and then ticked it. A prepaid card could be emptied in seconds, the number went to some kind of toll numbers on the island of Diego Garcia outside India. Today we choose rather Googling the number, we do not recognize. Or we think that it is important they call back. 
Astronaut from Nigeria
A swindler described how a Nigerian astronaut had given embarks on a secret journey into space with a rocket and stranded on the Russian space station Salyut T-16Z. Now he needed money to get home. 22,500 crowns would you pay, which you would get back as soon as he landed, which would not be a problem when the astronaut was good for 100 million. That there been something about him was because the operation was secret. Secret would also be that was so stupid that they went on the bluff.
Spam lifting shares
The method has been called pump-and-dump. Spammers are buying up cheap shares in a company and then spread lots of good “publicity” if the company so people get the idea that it has become so hot that the course actually really increases. Then they can sell their shares and make a killing. Reminds me of people on Instagram buying followers, or companies that buy Facebook likes and views on YouTube for others to believe that they are more popular than they really are. Watch out for bad guys!
E-Commerce without delivery
There are several who picked up the package in the mail that contained bricks. The most common is of course that it does not appear to be any at all. Some 90 customers are still waiting for a man in Värmland will send the shoes to them. Keep in mind that there are always those shoes themselves. Always read the reviews of people on such Tradera before ordering. But keep in mind that it never sold anything for obvious reasons, can not have any reviews, and that the person who has lots of good reviews one day suddenly can become vicious.
Domain Address Threat
Suddenly, call someone up and warns that rogue companies are registering a domain address similar to your company. The caller offers to a hefty penny register the address for you and secure the domain. To register a domain name will cost the usually under a hundred patch so the best is to say no and fix it yourself, for now the threat could be serious. This is a pure mafia method that shows how desperate and dirty tricksters can be.
mate in distress
Suddenly, you get a message on Facebook which appear to come from one of your friends and you therefore believe is from one of your friends. Your friend asks you to deposit money because he or she is stranded on a trip and need help with money for the ticket home. You get scammed by someone pretending to be someone else you trust. Who knows, maybe you need to start taking DNA samples of your friends in the future. I do not want to scare you, but you’ve seen the movie Face Off?
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