Archive for the 'Scams' Category

By Ken Evoy At SiteSell, we buy some of the loudest (SBI! owners ask about them in the SBI! Forums), most convincing stuff flying around, in the name of research (thank goodness it’s tax-deductible).  They are always disappointing, ranging from outright fraud at worst, to gross exaggeration at best… No great secret unveils itself, I’m [...]

Here’s another phony “Work At Home Job” posting at Craiglist. You wonder how these companies get to leave their URL when legitimate ads for products and services for sales are axed because Craigslist calls them an affiliate link when this is nothing more than an affiliate link and the whole thing about a job and [...]

As every real estate wannabe knows, “flipping” home is supposed to be one of the tried and true techniques of the business. This report from Reuters blames “investors” and “scammers” for the demise of a once nice neighborhood. “Flipping” though is traditionally though just taking a property bought at discount, sprucing it up and selling [...]

Here’s another scam designed to help identity thieves. Avoid it. Other than the fact that I live in nowhere’s ville where the only Mandarin speakers are at the Chinese restaurant (which itself is a good clue) cashing checks checks for 10% is a classic scam. Even certified checks, if fraudulent, are no good. Contact the [...]

Because the United Nations has nothing better to do than award millions of dollars to people who’ve never applied for the money and, in any case, wouldn’t be as adept at frittering all of it away on useless projects that never accomplish anything as they seem to be, they’ve have graciously sent me this email. [...]

The taxes you pay for “universal access” for telecommunications are just a cash cow for cell phone companies and evidently becoming corporate welfare of the worst kind. These companies have slurped up the “gravy” long enough. If we’re going to keep having to pay this tax at all, let’s use it to do what rural [...]

I guess this is “Scam Thursday” because I found this one too. I’ve warned about these in the past, but it’s always good to remind again. From NBC-2.com Law enforcement officials have a warning about a “work at home” check cashing scheme. Victims are not only losing their hard-earned cash, they’re also put at risk [...]

I hereby openly repent of believing my fellow man was too smart to keep paying to learn how to make money stuffing envelopes. Here’s the 2nd news article in a week about all the people who lost their money believing they could earn $10 per envelope they stuffed at home. In a world where tele-evangelists [...]

No, this headline is not from 1959! Just found it today from WNDU.com in South Bend, Indiana A get-rich-quick scheme turns out to be a scam, and one South Bend resident avoids being taken for a ride. It’s an old-fashioned scam that’s hit nearly every state in the country – including Indiana. Shawn Andrews once [...]

I guess this is proof that direct mail and data mining still works really well in a very sick sort of way. InfoUSA a merchant of direct response lists has been allegedly selling lists to scam artists who pray on the elderly. In the wake of the allegations, it turns out that Bill Clinton has [...]