Archive for the 'Scams' Category

You can see the image below of a scam message sent in the name of the “Better Business Bureau”. It’s another phishing scam but one that slipped through many spam filters. It purports to be from the Better Business Bureau website but has a non specific reply address “manager@bbb.org”. It arrives unsolicited to businesses who [...]

Have you ever tried to drive business to a web page and an offer, made some sales and then had the CPA network NEVER PAY YOU? If so, you’re not the first – though that is cold comfort indeed. What do your fellow online marketers feel are the best CPA (Cost Per Action) networks? Is [...]

A huge breach in corporate email systems gave hackers and fraudseters new ways to steal your identity. The “Epsilon” theft of corporate email information means that your personal email is now available to any number of crooks who wish to pose as company you have actually done business with at some time in the past. [...]

This is running around the web this AM. Basically a dude has been charging $250 to $500 for a solo ad to an opt-in list with 50,000 subscribers. There’s just one problem: There is no list. Whenever you purchase advertising, you have these dreams of actually making sales and at least getting your ad money back. That’s [...]

I had this happen to me recently … they broadcast a number to call from my credit union. I figured it was wrong because it was about a credit card which I didn’t have with this credit union! From Idexpertscorp.com Scammers are finding new ways to get your personal information and now they are invading [...]

Got this from Adrian Ling: This morning, I received an email, purportedly from Amazonasking me to  check the status of my order. Since I did place an order with Amazon 2 weeks ago, I did not delete that email … But it turn out to a scam/phish! The site is at: acmszon.com – a mispelt version of amazon.com! [...]

I’m sure we all get 10,000 of these a day. But this one was so stupid it was funny – no, I didn’t respond and neither should you! The federal bureau of investigation (FBI).Through our intelligence-monitoring network has discovered that the transaction that the bank contacted you previously was legal.Recently the fund has been legally [...]

This is absolutely priceless. Some people who considered themselves victims of a ponzi scheme took matters into their own hands: In possibly the most ballsy attempt to recoup money lost in an (alleged) Ponzi scheme, a group of Californians pretended to be FBI agents, held up a hedge fund, and demanded their money back. All [...]

There’s a problem out there. Scammers posing as “Internet Marketing Gurus” are sucking thousands of dollars out of the pockets of unsuspecting and often desperate people on their last leg financially. That happens with all sorts of “business opportunities”. Internet marketing is an especially lucrative field though because the products are normally “digital”… 100% profit… [...]

We’re talking big companies here like Coke putting sodium in bottle water to dehydrate you and Frito Lay putting MSG in Doritos to mess with your mind… Business Insider considers it “Great Marketing” … I guess they’d applaud putting opium in children’s candy too as long as it made people buy more! Here are their [...]