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  • The New Twist In Twitter Spamming

    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 in [...]

  • Beware New Email Harvesting Scams

    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 [...]

  • Mystery Shopping Scam

    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 [...]

  • Phishing Scheme Attacks Website Owners

    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 [...]

  • Finally – A Polite Twitter Spammer

    I’ve been getting lots of Twitter Spam.
    That’s when people sign up for Twitter with a phony name, put some posts about how to get rich quick and a link to their recruiting site and then start following 10,000 people so the people get their email, fall over half dead at their luck in finding out [...]

  • Breaking News – Spammer Kills Wife, Daughter, Self

    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” [...]

  • Watch out for this Scam Email

    Watch out for this spam/scam email.
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    onappropriation and finance as one of the final recipients of this new
    yearcontract and inheritance file to celebrate the fiscal 2008 an ATM
    CARD hasbeen issued out $5,500,000.00 to 2 lucky [...]

  • FBI: New Internet Threat Growing

    From Ronald Kessler
    If you’ve been on the internet for long… it should be old hat.
    “Don’t open email from strangers and don’t download the attachments!”
    That’s in addition to “have a firewall”, updated antivirus and antispyware programs,etc.
    The FBI is concerned because these “zombie networks” could be used in denial of service attacks on businesses and government agencies… [...]

  • Watch Those Marketing Headlines

    I like ListDotCom.com and use it to test products. Another way I test is to read the headlines that come into my email box.
    One just came in that said “Forget Everything You’ve Heard…”
    So I forgot how to open the email.
    Really, cynical reactions are what we’re battling online.
    We must try to get attention but sometimes trite [...]

  • How Scammers Use Work At Home Job Ads

    This is apparently a job posting in the name of a legitimate company called “Ashley Furniture”
    There is good reason to believe it to be a scam however. Some have reported it’s a scam run by a Nigerian ring.
    How could you tell this from the ad? What should alert you before you respond?
    One thing is [...]