Archive for the 'Scams' Category

Here’s another phishing scam you want to protect against. The Better Business Bureau (BBB) has received reports recently of emails, appearing to come from Amazon.com customer service, with the subject line “Thank you for your order.” The message contains the Amazon.com logo and looks legitimate in other ways, at least on the surface. Anyone who [...]

I can see how this would work easily. I routinely get small charges like these and assume a family member paid for a new iPhone app or something that is relatively small and not worth contesting. It would be repeated small charges I can’t account for that would trigger an alarm personally. FTC Says Online [...]

It’s an amateurish attempt to get into your gmail account and steal whatever they can steal. It doesn’t mean it won’t work … send this to enough people and someone who hasn’t had their coffee might think it’s real. This one did make it past Gmail’s spam filters though. Here’s the header. That’s a giveaway [...]

Clark Howard is a consumer advocate. Many people trust his advice and would naturally trust any work at home business opportunity he endorsed. There’s just one problem, he hasn’t endorsed any work at home business opportunity! So what’s this all about? If a Facebook friend sends you a message about a great way to make [...]

From Fox41.com: BBB Warns of Delta Airlines Scam This is a new twist on an old scam that’s been seen again and again. Why Delta would recruit mystery shoppers for some other reason than to improve their own business and send out checks for thousands of dollars to people? Letters that look as if they’re [...]

High unemployment for hard working people does not mean that criminals and scammers are unemployed. Seemingly they run at full employment especially in economic downturns as this report shows: Scammers Prey On Job Seekers Far from having pity on the unemployed who are facing hard times, they are, in fact, seeking to manipulate them further. [...]

Birmingham AL – UAB Professors Win Google Research Award to Study Home Business Cyber Scams BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Two professors in the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Department of Justice Sciences have won a Google Research Award to study cyber scams involving the illegal use of the Google brand. UAB Associate Professor Kent Kerley, [...]

In the “Duh” department… Ask Asa: Working From Home Is Not A Path To Riches It’s always amazing how much the same old response get rehashed again and again and played as “news”… who says you can’t recycle PLR a million times? It’s all about the same text invariably. I suppose that’s because people keep [...]

From Bookseller Digest of ABE Books It has recently come to our attention that booksellers have been receiving enquiries from a buyer using the ‘Ask a Bookseller a Question’ link to place potentially fraudulent orders.  These enquiries have come from a number of email addresses from a buyer based in Indonesia. Please be assured that [...]

CNNMoney reports Google filed a lawsuit against Pacific WebWorks and other unnamed defendants for allegedly using the company’s name and colorful logo to promote fraudulent work-at-home money-making schemes. Thousands of people have been tricked into sending payment information and being charged hidden fees by questionable operations,” Google said in a blog post. The search engine [...]