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Scams target students
Three new money scams
have hit Oregon students,
including fake lottery notices
and an Internet auction scam
Caron Alarab
Safety/Crime/Transportation Reporter
Oregon’s high school seniors and
college students are the second
most targeted group when it comes
to three new money scams, ac
cording to Attorney General Hardy
Myers’ office.
The new scams are based on
sympathy for a rich Christian Iraqi,
fake international lottery notices
and phony checks for high ticket
items from Internet auction sites.
But considering their general
tendency to sell items like com
puters and cars online when short
of money, students in Oregon are
most likely to encounter the third
crime, which involves counterfeit
checks of such high quality that
banks initially accept them and
then eventually go after the seller
for the due amount after finding
them counterfeit.
“Everybody gets scammed in
that one,” Oregon attorney gener
al’s office spokeswoman Jan Mar
gosian said.
Department of Public Safety As
sociate Director Tom Hicks said
the department has information of
Internet scams occurring on cam
pus, prompting officers to look
into new reporting and investigat
ing techniques.
“This is a crime that we can ex
pect to involve the campus commu
nity with an increasing frequency,”
he said. “Public Safety will have to
become more familiar with the ex
tent of the problem.”
The first of the three scams in
volves the story of Brameem Anu,
who wants to give #20 million to a
U.S. account holder for temporarily
holding #120 million after his
wealthy father was killed for sup
porting America. The victim’s ac
count gets emptied once the Iraqi is
given access.
The second scam involves pho
ny winners’ notices via e-mail in
the multimillion dollar Interna
tional Lottery, which encourages
winners to invest invisible win
nings in a larger lottery and wire
“good faith” money before any
cash is received. Money is untrace
able when it’s wired and the “win
nings” are never seen.
■n
ree new money scams in Oregon
Attorney General Hardy
Myers has warned
Oregonians of three new
money transfer schemes to
hit victims of all ages;
• A Christian Iraqi claims he
1$ the son of a successful
Baghdad businessman who
was killed for supporting
Americans, He wants toplace
$ 120 million into a U.S.
account and offers $20
million to whoever will help
him out, eventually emptying
the victim’s account.
■ The "final winners" notice of
the muitimiilion dollar
International Lottery appears
in e-mail accounts and claims
a tump sum of $ 1 million has
been won. Before the
winnings are sent, the winner
• Oregonians selling high
ticket items on Internet sites
like eBay are receiving high
quality counterfeit cashiers
checks issued for more than
the selling amount for
apparent shipping and
handling costs. The buyer
asks that extra money be
wired to a Nigerian account
after the check is received
and deposited. The bank
accepts the check, and weeks
later, discovers it is fake and
goes after the seller for the
value.
SOURCE: Oregon attorney general
The third scam, based on coun
terfeit cashiers’ checks, involves an
Internet auction purchaser who
sends a check for more than the
amount — claiming the rest is for
shipping costs — to the seller and
requests for the rest to be wired to
an account in Nigeria. The check is
deposited and cleared, the victim
wires the rest of the money. The
"Students are the
No. 2 most targeted
age group in Oregon
by money scammers.
Seniors age 50 and
older are No. 1."
Jan Margosian
office spokeswoman
Oregon attorney general
bank goes after the seller, the per
son who deposited the money, a few
weeks later.
According to federal law enforce
ment officials, money transfer con
artists appear to target middle and
upper income individuals in the
United States, but statistics from
Myers’ office say students and sen
iors are the groups that should be
most wary.
“Students are the No. 2 most tar
geted age group in Oregon by mon
ey scammers,” Margosian said. “Se
niors age 50 and older are No. 1.”
Myers’ office is currently investi
gating about 10 money scam cases,
but Margosian said that doesn’t nec
essarily reflect the true number of
Oregonians who are being duped.
“I’m sure there are plenty of vic
tims who I won’t hear from because
they are embarrassed for being so
trusting,” she said.
Since the biggest problem for of
ficers is finding Internet crime sus
pects, Hicks said the best advice to
students is to try and avoid becom
ing a victim in the first place.
“When dealing with money
without having it in your hands,
you’re taking a risk no matter
what,” he said.
In order to avoid being scammed,
Margosian advises students never to
wire money to people they don’t
know personally. For those who
have already lost money to one of
these schemes, there are a variety
of resources and organizations to
contact, including the Attorney
General’s Financial Fraud/Con
sumer Protection section toll-free at
(877) 877-9392.
For more detailed information on
the Nigerian advance fee scam and
“copy cat” schemes, visit the U.S.
Secret Service Web site at www.se
cretservice .gov/alert419. shtml.
Contact the reporter
atcaronalarab@dailyemerald.com.
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many women’s issues concern
everyone.
“It’s also a good way (for men) to
learn about issues and get our per
spectives,” she said.
Aguilar said an important aspect
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Chelsea Duncan is a freelance writer
for the Emerald.
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