Archive for the 'Scams' Category

Watch out for this spam/scam email.
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Here’s another reason to be careful about the websites you’re visiting… even if you were referred there by Google. The problem is that an otherwise innocent site with good search ratings for a popular term might be hacked and send visitors to another site completely to have their data stolen.
From the San Francisco Chronicle
Hackers have […]

I posted about the Craigslist hoax that cost a man most of his possessions. Police have now busted the perpetrators.
Amber Herbert, 28, of Medford, and her husband, Brandon Herbert, 29, were arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit burglary and conspiracy to commit a computer crime.
Police searched a computer that they owned and found […]

Scammers filed taxes online in a man’s name and had the illegal refund deposited in their account in another state.
A Woodbridge Road man received a check for $5,666.10 from H&R Block on March 18, but hadn’t even filed his taxes with the company, according to a police report.
Upon contacting H&R Block, he discovered that the […]

These are signs that more people will be trying to enter the work at home and business opportunity market and, in the process, easy prey for scam artists.
A UK paper announces we’re in a “Great Depression” because so many Americans are on food stamps - 28 million to be exact.
Independent truckers likely agree, many of […]

Here’s the email I received today.
Unsolicited of course.
Safely Earn 30% Interest Per Month + Advertise Your Program Big Time !!!
This will help build your affiliate business big time !! You can put in whatever you can afford from $10 & up. I put in $1,000 into my advertising campaign and am earning $300 per month […]

The kind, loving people who make Craigslist such a friendly place to visit online (NOT!) have now ransacked a man’s house in Oregon.
Oregon man’s property ransacked after Craigslist hoax
The ads popped up Saturday afternoon, saying the owner of a Jacksonville home was forced to leave the area suddenly and his belongings, including a horse, […]

From Ronald Kessler
If you’ve been on the internet for long… it should be old hat.
“Don’t open email from strangers and don’t download the attachments!”
That’s in addition to “have a firewall”, updated antivirus and antispyware programs,etc.
The FBI is concerned because these “zombie networks” could be used in denial of service attacks on businesses and government agencies… […]

I don’t know the “school” but I was talking with a lady wanting to do home medical transcription.
She told me she was taking a “course” to allow her to do medical transcription at home.
When she described the course - she said it was teaching her how to use POWER POINT!
Folks, my wife’s been doing home […]

Undress4Success has a good introduction to how scams get “recycled” again and again. The names change but these 21 “themes” keep recurring. Some things though are overgeneralizations that make for good lists but might not be universally true. Take this one for example:

#2 — Send us money and . . .
We’ll send you a list […]