Archive for the 'SPAM' Category

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 [...]

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 [...]

If you have computer programming skills and are fluent in Mandarin, Portugese, or Russian, there may be a home based computer job waiting for you… working for hackers.  That is if you don’t happen to care that you’re creating computer viruses to steal, scam, and otherwise pillage the cybercountryside. As I said, misanthropes only need [...]

From EmergencyEmail.org Internet Alert: St. Valentine’s Day E-Card Carries Storm Worm Virus If you unexpectedly receive a Valentine’s Day e-card, be careful. It may not be from a secret admirer, but instead might contain the Storm Worm virus. With the holiday approaching, be on the lookout for spam e-mails spreading the Storm Worm malicious software [...]

Was it P.T. Barnum that said something like that about people paying good money to see bearded ladies? It could also be applied as well today. I thought everyone realized that supposed emails from the IRS were all bogus, but no. A lady asked me to help her get her “online refund”. I showed her [...]

As social networking either becomes the greatest boon for building a business online ever – or the biggest time waster depending how you use it, scammers are at work to take advantage of your desire to use the new medium. Facebook users beware. Wired:Fraudsters Target Facebook With Phishing Scam Some Facebook users checking their accounts [...]

Here’s the latest attempt to steal your PayPal information and, as a result, loot your bank accounts and max out your credit cards. It’s a phishing email with the subject line that reads “Account Renewal Form”. PayPal of course doesn’t need you to “renew” your account. It is quite cleverly done because unless you read [...]

77,000 people paid $3 million to get involved assembling “refrigerator magnets” at home. They were told they could earn $800 per week in this business. To do that, of course, they’d have to assemble 20 magnets per hour for 40 hours per week for $1 per magnet. Since most of these refrigerator magnets don’t sell [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]