Archive for the 'Scams' Category

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 such plans [...]

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 of a [...]

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 on [...]

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 log-in names 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 two [...]

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 to [...]

“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 each [...]

The Scotsman reports that Google will warn it’s users if links in its search results will expose the user to potential spyware or scumare that will clog up their computer.
Customers who click on “dangerous keywords” such as “free screensavers”, “Download Yahoo messenger” or “Bearshare” will initially see a simple alert, with warnings becoming more detailed [...]

This isn’t exactly new, but it’s designed to frighten the heck out of you so you open the email and click the link that will steal your PayPal login information.
The subject line reads something like:
Receipt for Your Payment to brandy430138@yahoo.com
It’s designed to make you think “Oh my gosh! I didn’t send any money! I need [...]

Scammers are using bots on Ebay to create identities with huge positive feedback ratings when they have never sold anything at all, according to NewsFactor Magazine.
Buyers instinctively consider positive feedback ratings on ebay, Amazon and other services to be credible measures of seller reliability.
Thieves create accounts with seemingly huge positive feed back and then sell [...]