Archive for the 'Scams' Category

Does it seem to you that when a magazine has nothing better to say that they decide run an article about “home business scams” and “work at home schemes”? They trot out the same tired examples… stuffing envelopes, chain letters, pyramid schemes etc. blah, blah, blah. And of course they are wrong about some of [...]

Here’s my question. I’d really like to know a program that’s fair to the customer (someone losing their home) and reasonably priced to the entrepreneur. If you’re out there, please let me know. I see all these business opportunity ads telling me they’re going to help me get rich helping people keep from getting evicted [...]

This is from Craigslist. When I got information back and informed the staff that indeed it was a scam, they removed it. But you will see it again! If you see this ad, please realize it’s about sending them $10 by PayPal and they tell you how to post these ads to get $10 from [...]

I don’t know why home business opportunity fans are prey to these financial schemes but one making the rounds is about “Mortgage Elimination”. Listen, there’s no legal way to “eliminate a mortgage” that doesn’t involve paying it off. There are legitimate “debt elimination” programs which involve paying off debts including mortgages using accelerated payments and [...]

The U.S. Post Office is offering a Free DVD to warn the public about work at home scams. From the USPS website… Working at home has become attractive to many stay-at-home moms, college students, and retirees. While some jobs are legitimate, others just don’t deliver on their promises. This free, short film tells the story [...]

James Jones’ blog tuned me in to this amazing blog entry from, of all places, the Washington Post. It’s how one of their writers – Brian Krebs – found a site designed to look exactly like ebay’s login page so they can steal all your personal information. Oddly enough, he even dug up a message [...]

Beware electronic greeting cards from friends. It could cause you to lose all your personal information to thieves. From USA Today Cybercrooks are using e-cards that appear to come from a secret admirer in a scam to collect sensitive personal information, a security expert has warned. Data including credit card numbers, online banking credentials, and [...]

If you’re on the verge investing in one of those “get rich in real estate” courses, it could work. Or it could not. Keep reading… One out of five flippers who sold a home from April to June of this year lost money on the deal, says HomeSmartReports.com. That’s the highest ratio of losses in [...]

Drop shipping is all the rage and has been for quite some time… even before ebay. The popularity of ebay though has driven the market berserk and caused some people to choose the easy way and PRETEND to be a dropship wholesaler when they’re really not. They then take YOUR order and pass it along [...]

“Cybersquatters” and “typosquatters” are the target of Microsoft’s latest legal action… The Redmond, Wash., software giant said cybersquatters and typosquatters – people who register Web addresses either with trademarked terms or with common misspellings in the hopes of luring Web surfers who mistype addresses into their browsers – are now registering more than 2,000 domains [...]