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I am a somewhat like that ‘curious cat’ when it comes to junk mail.  I cannot resist wasting the time to read junk!  To me, all junk mail is created equal.  I read junk in direct mail and email deliveries.   I would like to ask readers, has anyone read those emails claiming that you are a giant lottery winner?  How about the one where they want you to pose as an overseas contractor?  long-lost heir?  American money catcher?  Fraud gets very creative as well as very convincing.  Fraudulent letters have ‘name-dropped’ some of the biggest including:  MSN, Yahoo, Google, AOL and HP.  How they keep getting away with this alone, amazes me.    Doesn’t someone there READ?  Doesn’t someone tell them?  Does anyone care?  Getting someone to care about something, has always been one hell of a mission.    Read the rest of this entry »

By: Brian Holland

I recently received several e mails from domain sellers who had fallen victim to a domain appraisal scam. The scam starts with a mail the seller receives  concerning a domain they own and the scammer showing interest in buying it.

The scammers find information about their targets on Ebay and on Whois.
In the first mail they tell you that they are a new player wanting to invest money in the domain market as a side business and inquire how much you want for the domain.

Next step is the mail in which they accept your asking price for the domain.  The scammers tell you that they want you to get the domain appraised as they don’t want to make a bad investment. The scammers want the appraisal from a certain manual appraisal website which they believe to be a good one, ofcourse this appraisal website is part of the scam. This appraisal website gives a highly inflated appraisal value and asks a high fee for it ( up to over a hundred dollars) as they know you need the appraisal to sell the domain.

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The claim: Working with the Roadmap to Riches system you get to keep 100% of all your profits you make. No other company on the Internet offers that (no quite true), You will earn $999 per sale, and with all the help in your new back office and working closely with your sponsor (if you get one with a conscience) you can easily find where to market and start making money right away (right away? Average 24-48hr to get approval from you payment processor.).

Roadmap to riches has top earners and newbies alike, jump ship and leave their ongoing affiliations to a “rosy red” world of automated sales.

They will all have you believe that you will simply wave that magical “guru wand” around like a bad Harry Potter movie and the meter in your bank account will start spinning faster than the $$$ dial at the gas pump!

And I know I’m going to bust a lot of financial dream bubbles here but unless this is told, people are going to walk right into this type of business model and expect overnight spinarounds with their present money situation just to find that the cash isn’t sitting peacefully in that bank account the next morning.
A new study shows that the vast majority (72%) of folks joining with these opportunities, usually come in with just enough cash to get the administration fee squared away and scrape nickels and dimes to render their sponsor his dues (for the cost of the product). All this to leave nothing or very little for trials and errors. You see, the sad reality is simply this: You (the novice) come in with very limited knowledge of running a successful marketing campaign that wont bust you flat before you’re ready to see a return.
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By: Kathy Steinemann  

Writing informational articles for the Web is a good way to establish oneself as an authority on any topic. Creating articles is also very effective in generating traffic for your website. However, deceitful authors can plagiarize your work (with very little effort). Read on for advice and tips to cope with copyright violations.

A few lazy individuals have plagiarized a number of my articles for their blogs and websites. These sloths deliberately copied my hard work, verbatim, without my biography and Internet links. So far, dishonest webmasters with Google adSense blogs or directories have committed all violations.

I decided to nose around until I pinpointed contact information for the violators. However, these troublemakers are usually adept at concealing e-mail addresses and configuring blogs so that nobody is able to post comments.

As a result, I contacted Google. Google has zero tolerance for copyright infringements. Such violations reflect poorly on their corporate image, and they respond rapidly to legitimate complaints. Performing a search for: ‘digital millennium copyright act google.com’ will locate a page with full instructions and company contact information. The page also displays links to appropriate websites with more particulars about the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

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By: Albert Grande 

    According to Wikipedia: “In computing, phishing is a criminal activity using social engineering techniques. Phishers attempt to fraudulently acquire sensitive information, such as usernames, passwords and credit card details, by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication.”

I should have known better…I never fall for those phishing scams…well almost never…

You know what I’m talking about- you get an email from Paypal, ebay or your bank.
The email looks genuine. All of the familiar graphics are there on the page. It looks exactly like the real website. How was I to know I was being set up for a scam…

Let me explain:
I had just completed an auction at eBay. A very successful auction. eBay immediately sent me an email. At least I thought it was from eBay….
The email said I owed money from my auction. They said I needed to pay immediately or my account would be suspended.

I certainly didn’t want my account suspended, I wanted to pay. I looked at the email and I clicked where it said to click.

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By: Sophie White

    There is a current and active way to knock a website out of Google’s search engine results.  It’s simple and effective.  This information is already in the public domain and the more people that know about it, the more likelihood there is that Google will do something about it.  This article will tell you how it works, how to get a website knocked out of the search engine rankings, but most importantly, how to defend your own website from having it happen to you.

To understand this exploit, you must first understand about Google’s Duplicate Content filter.  It’s simply described thus: Google doesn’t want you to search for “blue widget” and have the top 10 search terms returned copies of the same article on how great blue widgets are.  They want to give you ONE copy of the Great Blue Widget article, and 9 other different results, just on the off chance that you’ve already read that article and the other results are actually what you wanted.

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By: Ba Kiwanuka

Like any other environment that offers the average individual the opportunity to amass a substantial amount of wealth fairly quickly, the internet not surprisingly is rampant with scams. No doubt the situation today is far better than it was a few years back but that still does not negate the fact that the potential for you to get scammed is relatively high.

Sir Joshua Reynolds once remarked, “there’s no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking” an observation which has since proved to be the cornerstone of many a marketer’s success as well as that of the average scammer.

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By: Ryan Smith               

Emailing to a list is considered the best way to get fast results in any marketing campaign. Unfortunately for the Internet Marketer, this can also lead to lawsuits if one is not careful. To most, the obvious solution is to join a marketing safelist and promote to it.

Safelists promote the hype that each member will earn thousands by submitting to their safelist. They continue the hype by promoting to the unwary that their ads will be seen and their sites visited. Certain types of sites like this can only marginally come close to making any sort of guarantee of visitors. These types of safelist operate a credit based system that awards viewers credits when they visit other member sites. Once they reach a certain credit threshold they, in turn, can send out their own message.

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By: Elaine Currie

The Internet, like everywhere else has its share of thieves of all types. The most frightening type of thief to be found online is the identity thief. An identity thief might steal every penny from your bank account, buy expensive items with your credit card and take out loans in your name. Innocent people have also found themsleves in jail through the activities of identity thieves. The following seven tips will help you to protect your password online.
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By: Steve Dahl

I went to this free seminar recently and spent $3500. Wait a minute. Did I get scammed? The big seminar was great. I met some wonderful people there but I left with $3500 less than when I walked in with! What’s free about that? It’s a scam. I was tricked into taking the bait, enjoying the show and then opening my checkbook to some charismatic golden-throated speaker in front of hundreds of his followers. I’ve been duped. I’ve been scammed. I’ve been had by the best.
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