On this episode of Keeping up with the Kardashians, Kim Kardashian uses Spoofcard to get into the voicemail of her friend, Khloe’s boyfriend, basketball player Rashad McCants.
Kim, was able to uses Spoofcard to get into Rashad’s cell phone’s voicemail to see if there was anything worthy of confirming Khloe’s fears. Let’s just say that she ended up dumping the guy.
See this all unfold in the video below.
This is not a new trick. Paris Hilton used the same method to get into Lindsay Lohan’s voicemail back in 2005.
If you watch the video above, you will see that they were able to use Spoofcard to get into his voicemail by entering the phone number you wish to call and then making the number which shows up on the caller id the same as the number being called.
The voicemail system will think that the call is being made from the cellphone handset based on the number passed over the caller id and pass you directly into the voicemail without verifying a passcode.
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In 2009 alone, Americans sent over $30 million to Jamaica to claim winnings in this lottery scam. These people were scammed out of all this money.
Scam artists are making Jamaica an even larger scaming center than the previous scamming hub of Nigeria. Jamaicans speak better English and are more familiar with the American culture and way of life. This makes it easier for them to try and scam Americans. Many scammers try to be extremely polite and speak professionally.
Most of these scams are run by groups out of Montego Bay, some of the groups operate out of Kingston.
It’s still quite easy to recognize their accents. They will refer to you as “Mr. Dave” or “Mrs. Sarah” instead of by your surname which is common in Jamaica, but not in the United States. They may also tell you to “go to THE Moneygram at THE Wal-mart” instead of “go to Moneygram at Wal-mart”.
876 is the area code in Jamaica. Some will call you without blocking their number so that you can return the call. Many make these calls from their cell phones. Others have gone as far as using services like MagicJack to obtain local phone numbers through out the United States which they can make or receive calls from over the internet using a phone number in the area code of their choice. If you hear an echo or feedback chances are that you are talking to someone using MagicJack and their volume is turned up too loud.
Calling an 876 number will cause your phone carrier to charge you international calling fees which seem to be between $0.35-1.25 a minute depending on your phone carrier.
Some Jamaican numbers who have called me with this scam:
(876) 576-2014
(876) 479-9786
(876) 862-8868
(876) 474-3431
(876) 894-8896
(876) 437-9931
I talked to a few of the scammers. Some of the scammers I sent on wild goose chases pretending to believe them, pretending to go to MoneyGram or Western Union, and then giving them false numbers or telling them I accidentally sent it to the wrong person. If you want to mess with them be aware that MoneyGram uses a digit number as follows and Western Union uses a digit number as follows.
After messing with them several times and even telling them that I knew it was a scam and going as far as giving them advice and tips. They began asking me if I was interested in helping them to scam other Americans for a cut of the money. I asked them what this would entail and they said basically:
1) They wanted me to identify a local casino or a place where people win money, phone number, address, etc.
2) Get lists of people who frequent this area with their contact info.
3) Help them to set up a MagicJack number with a local area code and telephone number.
4) Their call center would call these people up and ask them to send a processing fee to a local person (me) with a fake identity.
5) They would set me up with a false identity.
6) People would mail, wire, and send me money using snail mail, MoneyGram and Western Union and we’d split the profits 50-50.
Of course I didn’t agree to doing this since I’d be taking all the risks for the potential of minimal gains.
Life in Jamaica is rough. There is frequent violence and crime and the majority of people outside the major resorts live below the poverty level. These organized scams have provided additional ways for Jamaicans to make money. However they have also led to violence among different groups of scammers. One group of scammers was recently murdered by a rival group to eliminate the competition.
One group identified themselves as a call center with over 50 people operating out of the Freeport area of Montego Bay in Jamaica complete with a modern office using computers, Voice-over-IP calling devices, caller id spoofing, etc. This group claims to make thousands of calls a day resulting in hundreds of people sending them thousands of dollars a day. They told me that they had convinced one 82 year old man from Florida who had been in Jamaica 3 weeks prior that he had won a cash prize and needed to pay them $15k in taxes to collect the money.
The other group identified themselves as two seventeen year old high school boys from Montego Bay running the scam on their own using their cellphones and using the computers at their local schools. They were looking to expand their group to partners within the United States and they provided me with their Instant Message contact info and MySpace page. Below is a photo of one of the Jamaican scammers taken from his MySpace page. Look how tough he looks! Yeah right!
How the scam works:
Jamaican scammer groups obtain your name, address, and phone number from mailing lists purchased by legitimate Montego Bay Casinos from various American based casinos. These Jamaican casinos either sell these lists to or have these lists stolen by scammers.
They are also able to obtain lists of people who have visited Jamaica and stayed at local resorts.
The Scammers have call centers. A caller will call you up and say that you won millions of dollars in some sort of lottery, but you need to wire a small fee to the company to cover the processing or delivery fee. They ask you to go to your local Western Union or Moneygram and send a small amount of money to a person located either in Jamaica or in the United States.
If you send them money. This request will lead to future requests for money. These scammers may later even pose as the police or FBI and say that they need you to send additional cash to aid in their investigation. Leading to additional losses in money. These scammers work in groups and teams.
These scams look for people with compulsive impulses who are often elderly. Some of these victims are like gamblers, they send money to Jamaica regardless of knowing that it might be a scam with the slim chance that they would eventually receive some money. Some have lost their entire life savings. A 72 year-old retired bookkeeper from New Jersey named Ann Mowle committed suicide in 2007 after sending more than $248,000 to Jamaica over the course of a year.
This scam has grown dramatically over the past two years. Western Union and Moneygram deserve part of the blame for this type of scam. They allow so much money to be sent to Jamaica through their network. It seems that they could do a better job of investigating fraud and be skeptical about lots of small and large transactions going to people in Jamaica. But what do they care? They their own cut of the profits!
The video rental market has changed. Traditional video stores like Blockbuster and Hollywood Video are now going out of business. The video rental market has evolved from storefronts to video by mail outlets, like Netflix to an even more efficient phenomenon: Video Rental Kiosks.
These video rental kiosks are essentially vending machines which allow you to use your credit card to rent movies for only $1.00 a night. This business model is by far the most efficient, it can run 24 hrs a day, 7 days a week and can run by itself without any staff onsite. However, there is also a trick to beat this system and actually keep your DVD for only $1.00 without ever having to return it or be charged any additional money.
Getting the Movie for only $1.00
The way these video rental kiosks work is that you select which movie(s) you want to rent. You swipe your credit or debit card in the machine and your movie is given to you and you are billed $1.00 plus tax for one night’s rental. If you don’t return the movie within 24 hours you will be billed an additional $1.00 plus tax for each night you keep the movie. After 25 nights and $25.00 plus tax, the movie is yours to keep and you will no longer be billed.
The Credit Card Transaction Process
When you rent the movie, the video rental kiosk checks your credit or debit card and makes sure that $25 is available on the card. You are initially charged $1.00 plus tax, which turns out to be $1.08 (with tax) in my area, you are not charged anything over this initial $1.00 for 24 hours.
The Trick
If you buy one of those $25 Visa or Amex Gift Cards, you will be able to use this gift card to rent the movie. It will check to see that $25 is available, which it is and then it will charge you an initial $1.08 as a rental fee. Leaving a balance of $23.92 on your gift card. You can take your video and then go spend the rest of the money on the gift card, thus they will not be able to charge you anything additional beyond the initial $1.00 regardless of whether or not you return the movie!
This trick would only allow you to rent one movie using a $25.00 gift card, because after the initial rental, the card no longer has $25 available on it. That’s why I prefer using the $50 gift card, because it allows you to rent multiple movies and still keep $25 available on the card. Using a $50 gift card you can rent 10-12 movies easily and still have over $25 left over.
After you rent the movies using your gift card be sure to spend the remaining balance on your giftcard within 24 hours or you will be billed an additional $1 per movie. I like using gas stations to spend my additional balance because you can buy beer, cigarettes, food, soda and then gasoline. With pumping gas you can spend the remaining balance on your gift card to the penny.
You can easily use the process above to get any movie from the video rental kiosks for only $1.00 plus tax and keep it forever without being charged anything additional!
At airports around the world there are first-class lounges that offer their first class passengers free world-class meals, an open bar with free unlimited drinks, free internet access, self-serve bars, free gifts, private rooms, free magazines and newspapers, and private rooms. Some first-class lounges even offers private bedrooms, full buffet, massage services, gyms, spas, and swimming pools.
The top-ten first class lounges are:
1. Singapore - Singapore Airlines - Gold Kris Lounge.
2. Hong Kong - Cathay Pacific Airlines - Blue-Chip Lounge.
3. Dubai - Emirates Airways - Elegant Lounge.
4. Abu Dubai - Etihad Airways - Premium Lounge.
5. Instanbul - Turkish Airways - Millennium Lounge.
6. London - Virgin Atlantic - Clubhouse.
7. London - British Airways - Galleries.
8. New York - Lufthansa Airlines - Premium Lounge.
9. Miami - American Airlines - Admirals Club.
10. San Francisco - United Airlines - Red Carpet Club.
There is one easy little-known trick to get access to any first class lounge at the airport for free.
Simply follow the following steps:
1) Purchase a fully refundable first-class airline ticket which can be refunded without any fees. Pick an airlines with a first-class lounge that you wish to access.
2) Go to the airport, check-in, and get your first-class boarding pass.
3) Use your first-class airline ticket to bypass security.
4) You can now use your first-class ticket to access the first-class lounge.
5) You can then cancel your ticket anytime before the flight takes off to receive a full refund credit back on to your credit card. It is recommended that you call the airlines to cancel the ticket from inside the lounge, immediately after you gain access.
You could book the actual flight that you will be taking this day in advance. It is possible to book both a first class and a coach ticket for the same person in advance as long as they are on different airlines. It would also be possible to book your coach ticket after you cancel your first-class ticket.
If you are flying out of a larger International Airport like New York, San Francisco, or Chicago O’Hare, it would be possible for someone flying domestic coach to also purchase a fully-refundable International First-Class ticket from the same airport and gain access to the International First Class lounge while they are waiting for their flight.
In some cases you might want to cancel your ticket and get your refund “before” accessing the first-class lounge, because it may be possible that airlines won’t refund all of your money if they realize that you used your ticket to access the lounge. However, even if the ticket is canceled in the system you can often use the paper ticket itself to access the lounge.
This trick would also people to purchase fully-refundable international tickets to access the duty free shops without leaving the country.
Class 1 = False Identity (ID Card or Driver’s License belonging to someone else.) Class 2 = Altered (A real Driver’s License or ID Card that has been physically changed to represent false information such as Date of Birth.) Class 3 = Fake (Completely manufactured as a counterfeit ID Card.)
Class 1 False Identity
If you are planning on using someone else’s ID Card there is a very high probability that you will get caught. Typically this method only works with a younger sibling that looks very much like an older “of age” sibling. Many bars and night clubs will not accept expired ID Cards to prevent this type of activitiy.
In order to be effective you would need the older sibling’s Current Driver’s License, using the Original ID Card can be risky for both siblings. Therefore, it makes more sense and is safer for the younger sibling to borrow the “of age” siblings Birth Certificate and Social Security Card and go to the DMV and claim that the Original license was lost.
The younger sibling can now get a Duplicate ID with their own picture (younger sibling) and the pertinent info belonging to the older sibling. The older sibling can continue to use the Original ID card and the younger sibling can use the Duplicate ID Card (with the younger sibling’s photo) obtained from the DMV. Most DMV offices require no proof to walk in and obtain a Driver’s License other than a Birth Certificate and a Social Security Card.
Class 2 Altered
Years ago with the traditional laminated ID Cards it was possible to easily to alter the Date of Birth on a Driver’s License by “Chalking” the ID. The term “Chalking” refers to using colored pencils (Yes, that’s right, Colored Pencils!) to alter the Date of Birth on a Driver’s License.
This is not possible to do in all states, but is especially popular an easy to do with New York State Driver’s Licenses. If done correctly contrary to what you might think, a chalked ID Card can look extremely convincing to a bouncer or bartender - especially in the dark.
Some “chalked” IDs can be foiled if a bartender wets his finger and then runs it across the Date of Birth causing the colored pencil lead to smear.
With the help of technological advancements, such as holograms and textured lamination - today’s Driver’s Licenses are nearly impossible to alter except by a professional.
Class 3 Fake
One of the biggest giveaways on a well made fake Driver’s License is a bad photo. Never use a photo of a person wearing a hat as this is a dead giveaway. The DMV would never allow a person to pose for their Driver’s License photo wearing a hat.
Be sure that your photo shows your face looking directly forward with your head level and a forward aligned profile. Don’t use a picture of a person looking up, down, to the left, or to the right. Be sure that the photo is taken against a plain white background. Also be sure that there is no red eye in the picture.
Be sure to wear appropriate casual clothes. The girl in the photo above looks fine in the full profile picture, but looks naked once the photo is cropped into an ID sized image.
The print on your ID card should be high resolution, all printed information needs to be solid and clear. If the print is fuzzy, pixelated, or grainy then it will be a clear indication that the ID is fake.
Make sure that the lamination is done well. It should not peel, there should be no bumpy surfaces, and it should form a solid piece with the rest of the ID card.
Make sure that the holograms, barcodes, and magnetic strips look accurate. People often check the holograms. Scanning the barcodes or magnetic strip occur less often so even if the ID doesn’t scan accurately, it should pass most of the time as long as the magnetic strip and barcode looks realistic.
Make sure that the information on your card is accurate and realistic. The height and weight should be around your height and weight. The date of birth should also be as close to your own age as possible. Do not use ridiculous information that would attract unnecessary attention.
Additional Tips
- Always put your fake ID or Driver’s License in a different wallet separate from your real identification cards. Having your real ID and your fake ID in the wallet can spell trouble. If someone spots your real ID they will want to see that ID as well and you’ll be caught.
- Always carry additional identification or cards with your fake IDs name on them. Often times bartenders and bouncers will ask to see a second form of ID. They know that most people who have fake ID cards, do not have backup identification.
- Know the information printed on your fake ID card. Many people make the mistake of using a fake ID without knowing the information printed on the card. If a bouncer or bartender suspects that an ID is fake they might ask your birth date, middle initial, address, or zodiac sign. If you hesitate, don’t know the answer, or get it wrong it will be a major indication that the ID you are using is fake.
Have you ever wanted to get into someone’s voicemail without them knowing about it?
You may want to listen to someone’s voicemail because you are suspicious of a rival, suspecting a lover of cheating on you, or just plain curious.
A service called SpoofCard allows you to change what a person sees on their caller id when they receive a phone call. This SpoofCard service allows you to MAKE ANY PHONE NUMBER APPEAR on the caller id of the person that you are calling, CHANGE YOUR VOICE to sound like a man or a woman, digitally record your calls, and even GAIN ACCESS TO OTHER PEOPLE’S VOICEMAIL!
GET INTO VOICEMAIL BOXES
If you want to get into someone’s voicemail with SpoofCard simply enter their phone number as the number you wish to call and provide the exact same number as the number you wish to appear on the caller id.
Their voicemail system will think that the call is being made from the home phone number or cellphone and pass you directly into the voicemail.
This SpoofCard trick works especially well on cellphone voicemail systems. I have found that AT&T, Sprint, Boost Mobile, Cingular Wireless, and T-Mobile USA telephone networks use Caller ID to identify voicemail users without requiring passwords. So users on these networks are totally vulnerable to this trick.
There was even an article two years ago talking about how Paris Hilton got into trouble for using SpoofCard to break into Lindsay Lohan’s voicemail. Paris also used SpoofCard to make harassing calls and made them appear to be made from Lindsay’s cellphone.
Recently there has been an increasing number of ATM scams surfacing. Scammers are installing equipment on legitimate bank ATMs to steal both the ATM card number and the PIN from customers.
These ATM scams are highly effective and have accounted for millions of dollars worth of money scammed.
The equipment that these scammers use to capture your ATM card number and PIN is carefully disguised to look like normal ATM equipment.
A credit card “skimmer” is mounted to the front of the normal ATM card slot which reads the ATM card number and either stores or transmits the number to the scammers. This card reader “skimmer” is designed to fit into the ATM and be relatively undetectable.
Once in place it’s very difficult to tell that a skimmer is attached to the ATM machine. Any cards used in this machine will have their magnetic strip recorded and the scammers will be able to use this information to create a “clone” of this card using a magnetic strip writer.
The scammers can take things even further and install a pamplet box containing a concealed camera to record the user’s PIN number. The camera installed in this pamplet box is relatively undetectable and can be used to record the users PIN number. Once the scammer has the magnetic card info and the PIN number they can encode a blank card and use this card and PIN number to withdraw money from this person’s account.
This setup is virtually undetectable even with both the pamplet box and magnetic strip skimmer in place.
Look at the picture above, there is only one subtle difference between the regular ATM on the left and the ATM on the right with the skimmer installed. Notice that the card slot where you insert your ATM card no longer dents inward, instead it bulges out? This is because there is a skimmer in place which will read your ATM card.
The skimmer will still allow the ATM to function normally, but it will read the information off the card and the scammer will be able to swipe the magnetic strip encoding when the card is placed into the slot and then create a clone of your ATM card.
The Lebanese Loop Trick
Another trick that Scammer’s use to physically steal your ATM card is known as the Lebanese Loop Trick.
The Lebanese Loop consist of a strip or sleeve of metal or plastic (such as x-ray film or VCR tape) that is inserted into the ATM’s card slot. When the victim inserts their ATM card, the loop prevents the card being drawn into the machine, fooling the user into believing the machine has malfunctioned or retained their card.
These Lebanese Loops tend to be made out of thin, black material that can easily blend into the ATM card slot.
The Lebanese Loop is carefully inserted into the ATM card slot. The ends of the strip are folded upwards.
The foldered ends are glued to the outer surface of the ATM card slot, making the Lebanese Loop virtually impossible to detect.
Slits are cut on both sides of the Lebanese Loop to prevent the card from being returned at the end of the transaction. This causes the card to remain in the machine.
Once the ATM user leaves the scammer can now return to the machine and pull down the ends of the loop to retrieve the ATM card and remove it from the slot.
The scammer now has the ATM card and is free to use it provided he was able to record or view the user entering in their PIN number.
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