Archive for the 'SPAM' Category

Please beware the latest PayPal Scam. It’s almost laughable but beware anyway. If you receive such an email, forward it to spoof@paypal.com and then delete it.
PayPal doesn’t need copies of this information. They verify your personal information directly with the financial institution and when you verify the amounts deposited in your checking and/or savings accounts.
These […]

I shouldn’t have to tell you this, but you should have to tell people you can’t really make money stuffing envelopes either, but that lie never seems to die either.
There’s a new slew of phony emails claiming to be from the IRS and offering you a refund.
When you respond they steal your personal information and […]

Here’s a relatively new site/blog combo I’m very familiar with on the “fix credit file” topic.
It doesn’t have Akismet installed to kill spam (though that’s good) so all comments are set to be moderated.
My point in all this is that the site’s about a month old and already getting spammers trying to leave their comment […]

I guess it’s not only uneducated people who get taken in by scams.  This fellow was a law student at a major Ivy League Law School! Again, the scam was posted on Craigslist! It’s worth reading the whole article.
From the Washington City Paper
An intriguing Craigslist job ad turned up on June 21 of […]

Here’s a free tool that will help small businesses on the net deliver email more productively to their customers and not get their communications trashed as “SPAM”.
Spam is a bigger and bigger problem nowadays. Recently RalphWilson, Paul Myers, and other Net marketing gurus havewritten about the problems that spam is causing honest, hardworking Net marketers.
Actually, […]

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.
I’m […]

As you know I very much like Squidoo.com pages. They’re excellent for link aggregating. They’re a great way to combine links to your articles on other websites and create a new “unique” page without lots of extra work and have another site in cyberspace point back to you.
But as I warned earlier, the spammers […]

I can never tell when Gmail is going to start taking my legitmate email and consider it “spam” … there seems to be little rhyme or reason.
Sometimes Gmail disposes of some pretty important email in it’s quest to protect from Spam.
Here’s a quick technique to help you identify real mail you might trash.
From Technology Evangelist
Gmail’s […]

When they sentenced that spammer to jail the other week, we were told Spam was going to be decreasing “noticably”.
I wonder who’s going to notice it and when?

You know how people steal your email address and then send out spam under your email address as the bogus “reply to” address?
They caught one of the world’s Top 10 Spammers because doing this, the feds decided, was “identity theft”.
You can read about it on MSNBC
They claim that putting this guy away will help reduce […]