Archive for the 'Scams' Category

On Newsmax
It’s really a money laundering scam like the ones reported here before. In fact, we’ve mentioned variants of this one before. The only change is that this money is “real” … just dirty.
The victims are asked to open new bank accounts in their names, agree to accept anonymous payments into those accounts, and forward [...]

Just got back in after some time playing around Veteran’s Day and had 2 email harvesting scam contacts waiting for me… one on a Gmail chat and one on Facebook.
Both were similiar … saying my photo was on a site or I’d been tagged in a photo. These were from people I don’t normally contact [...]

While Mystery Shopping IS a legitimate industry, this one should have seemed bogus to start.
People who put resumes on the big “job sites” or who get email are promised mystery shopping jobs.
The person receives a $3800 check by COURIER (Fed Ex, UPS or other private courier to avoid the breaking POSTAL laws).
They are told to [...]

If you one or a thousand domains, you need to be aware of a new phishing scheme that’s trying to get your hard earned money.
So if you are the registered owner of a domain name, you might want to be concerned about email claiming to be from your domain registrar, be sure you are logging [...]

In Better Business Bureau Warns of Scam, the BBB notes that phoney emails and bogus blog posts are being used under the name of the Better Business Bureau to lure people into registering software or otherwise exposing the personal information or exposing their computer to malicious software that can then steal their identity.

We interrupt your work at home business entrepreneurship to comment further on the Bogus Bailout.
Evidently the banks begging for taxpayer largesse (the same ones that would gladly kick you out on the street without offering YOU a bail out) really don’t need this at all by some estimates.
Here’s one Wall Street Analyst who says the [...]

It’s funny how things come full circle.
People noticed that folks on the internet were trying to determin if “X” is a “scam”.
Then the Pay Per Click gurus started using the word “scam” in their ads – it boosted click through rates.
At least until everyone else did the same thing.
But marketers connected with the people’s cynicsim [...]

I was looking at a lens I created on Squidoo to make sure it had published correctly.
I saw this job ad.
This town is a county seat town in a Southern County. A Saturn plant is nearby. But do you really think there are “$100 per hour jobs with benefits” anywhere or in any number?
They only [...]

We knew professional spammers were self serving vermin, but this sort of proves it beyond much doubt. It’s sad that the innocent were taken in his last act of self centered evil! A teen aged girl survived despite wounds to run for help.
‘Spam King’ Shoots Wife, Daughter in Apparent Murder-Suicide
The bodies of “Spam King” [...]

On Today’s “Stump Markus”! program at noon, Markus will talk live about some of the top so-called “Guru’s” who had one motto – “Fake it till you make it!”
Here’s what he plans to talk about in his own words:
Out of curiosity, I tried searching Google for the phrase, “Fake it ’til you make it”…
… To [...]