Archive for the 'Scams' Category

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]