Archive for the 'Scams' Category

I ran across an interesting video my friend Markus Allen made… it investigates a phenomenon we’re all familiar with… those promises of “big money” by the Internet “gurus”.
You’ve perhaps heard about programs so amazing they virtually guarantee success if you will get out your credit card to pay a handsome price only to wonder – [...]

Building any kind of business takes time, money, energy and focus. Obviously some businesses take more or less of each ingredient. Internet businesses are no different than a traditional brick and mortar business, except for the fact that they can cost substantially less to get started. That’s why they are so attractive to a lot [...]

Here’s another Mystery Shopping Scam report.
I was a victim to this so called “mystery shopping” this past week. Earlier this month I found an ad online about mystery shopping and a friend of mine used to do it in college so I thought it was legit. The man whom emailed me was named [...]

I’ve been warning you about Mystery Shopping Scams
Here’s the sad story of Andrea. I wouldn’t say not to get involved in LEGITIMATE mystery shopping. Those assignments pay “play money” … they don’t offer huge bogus rewards for doing nothing as this scam does though!I found plenty of legitimate mystery shopping offers through Survey Scout for [...]

A while back I reported on this Mystery Shopping Scam.
I received a report from another VICTIM today!
I also received a checked from Canada, but the paper that came with it had a Delaware address on it. I spoke with a person named Paul Williams and told me to deposit the check of $1970.50 [...]

I wrote about those “Free Government Grants” .
Over they years, I’ve come to consider most of them to be rip offs and jokes designed to sell information.
But they are so hot right now, a CPA advertising company just emailed me asking me to run their particular version.
I told them “no” and tried to explain.
It’s a [...]

My wife brought in the mail.
She was concerned. I apparently had a huge bill for some of my web domains she thought.
And that’s exactly what the letter intended you to think.
That your domains were up for renewal.
But no. These domains are NOT up for renewal.
This is a mail scam run by “Domain Renewal Group”.
They want [...]

A while back I warned people about a Mystery Shopping Scam
I’m still getting comments on this problem that I wanted to bring to your attention. I didn’t put this in ALL CAPS… that’s the author who did that.
But this is the type of problem people are still running in to… BEWARE!
I RECEIVED ON ON FEB [...]

A boatload of Twitter Spam is hitting cyberspace. Here’s how to avoid becoming quickly hated and having your account with Twitter falsely interrupted by a spammer who should, of course, be taken out and flogged.
The scam is called Twitter Phishing and it happens when people think they’re signing in to Twitter but they’re signing in [...]

The facebook scammer who tried to get me was really sort of funny.
This particular idiot sent me an instant message posing as a friend of mine whose identity had been stolen.
I got a message… “Did you see from my status message that I’ve been stranded in London and someone’s stolen my wallet?”
Since he’s [...]