| 71 | Beware of telephone scams Preview: Beware of telephone scams It’s illegal. It’s deceptive. It’s costly. But getting “slammed” (having your long-distance telephone carrier switched without your permission) is becoming an increasingly common occurrence. Three of every five people surveyed by the National Consumers League report that they or someone they know has been a victim of sla... (more) Published By: David McDonough Submitted: 26 September,2004 |
| 72 | How to Avoid Telemarketing Scams Preview: How to Avoid Telemarketing Scams Offers of amazing investments and too-good-to-be-true offers are warning signs of telephone fraud. According to the Federal Trade Commission, telemarketing fraud now costs Americans at least $40 billion a year. Some of the most common scams include: Prize offers: The National Fraud Information Center lists prize ... (more) Published By: David McDonough Submitted: 26 September,2004 |
| 73 | The Truth About Multi-Level Marketing Preview: I know I'm going to ruffle a few feathers with this article, so let me just say right now that all MLM marketing (AKA network marketing) companies are not scams. Obviously, there are some good, reputable companies out there. However, there are so many bad ones that I'm compelled to lump the entire industry together. If you're thinking about... (more) Published By: Dean Phillips Submitted: 02 October,2004 |
| 74 | How Not To Get Hooked By A "Phishing" Scam Preview: First of all, for those of you unfamiliar with the term, "Phishing" is a high-tech scam that uses spam or pop-up messages to deceive you into disclosing your credit card numbers, bank account information, Social Security number, passwords, or other sensitive information. Phishers send an e-mail or pop-up message that claims to be from a business... (more) Published By: Dean Phillips Submitted: 03 October,2004 |
| 75 | The Truth About Stuffing Envelopes And Home Assembly Programs Preview: Two of the oldest scams around appear to be as popular as ever. I'm referring to stuffing envelopes and home assembly programs. Let's talk about stuffing envelopes first. Ads for envelope stuffing "opportunities" seem to be everywhere--from your mailbox to your newspaper to your e-mail box. Promoters usually advertise that, for a "small" fee, th... (more) Published By: Dean Phillips Submitted: 04 October,2004 |
| 76 | WARNING! Living Trust Scams Targeting our Seniors Preview: Don't loose Medicaid Benefits because of a Living Trust! My grandmother recently responded to a post card advertising piece received in the mail. The company that sent the post card eluded that they were 'approved' by AARP and made the claim "The Choice is Yours: Sacrifice Your Assets to the State or Protect Your Loved Ones." Grandma did not thi... (more) Published By: Barbara Mascio Submitted: 04 October,2004 |
| 77 | Scammers Use Better Business Bureau Name To Commit Scams Preview: The Better Business Bureau recently issued a national alert to warn consumers and businesses about two questionable operations that are falsely using the BBB name to scam victims. One business is perpetrating an advance fee loan scam that targets consumers and businesses with poor credit records. It has provided as a reference fictitious BBB ph... (more) Published By: Dean Phillips Submitted: 05 October,2004 |
| 78 | How To Avoid Getting Scammed Preview: Listed below are some of the most popular and common scams: 1. Nigerian Letter Scam: This one's been around for many years but continues to flourish. Many of these e-mails claim to be from a person in Africa, usually Nigeria. The writer claims to have access to millions of dollars, either from a relative or from knowledge of an idle account. A p... (more) Published By: Dean Phillips Submitted: 09 October,2004 |
| 79 | Spammers, Scammers, and the Filters That Protect Us Preview: It never ceases to amaze me, the things that show up in my mail box. As an AOL member, I have use of some of the finest spam filtering technology in the world, but I still get at least three of the following, each week: The Nigerian Scam, Unsolicited Hot Stock Tips, New Mexico Oil Strike Announcement, and Sexually Explicit Come ON's. Do you thin... (more) Published By: Robert Thompson Submitted: 16 October,2004 |
| 80 | Yahoo!/Overture Site Match: A License To Steal Preview: Unless you've been living in a cave somewhere, I'm sure you've heard by now, Overture now offers the Yahoo! Search Inclusion under its own branded name--Site Match. According to the page info from Overture, submitting your site to individual search engines is expensive and time-consuming. But with Site Match you can reach millions of users by s... (more) Published By: Dean Phillips Submitted: 22 October,2004 |
| 81 | Gambling interesting facts Preview: Soccerbetting Is there such thing as "kangtao" or surewin tips? I have seen alot of people debating over the issues of this "kangtao" or surewin tips.In actual fact there"IS" however very few.But why does it fails us when it is surewin.it is because some of these so called kangtao are "false information" released by the smaller bookmakers thems... (more) Published By: winder liao Submitted: 05 November,2004 |
| 82 | Publish Anything: The Saga of a PublishAmerica Author Preview: Publish Anything: The Saga of a PublishAmerica Author By Lisa Maliga My story is that an author who’d done online writing for such dot gones as Themestream, Written By Me, and The Vines, someone trying hard to have fiction, poetry and nonfiction in print for real, recommended PublishAmerica. She claimed it was a traditional book publisher. I was ... (more) Published By: Lisa Maliga Submitted: 06 November,2004 |
| 83 | Before you spend that money, let's talk about history. Preview: Have you noticed all of the advertisements on the Internet from "gurus" and people who have "made it" with their Internet business? You know the ones, they tell you how in demand they are. They tell you how they get several thousand dollars for each seminar they give. They tell you how they've made hundreds of thousands of dollars online. And th... (more) Published By: Kathy Burns-Millyard Submitted: 15 November,2004 |
| 84 | Are cyber-criminals "phishing" your identity from your computer? Preview: Phishing (definition) (FISH.ing) pp. Creating a replica of an existing web page or HTML email input form to fool a user into submitting personal, financial, or password data. —adj. Today phishing seems to be one of the most serious new scams on the Internet. Now hackers and spamming companies not only bother you with thousands of unwanted email... (more) Published By: Anti Spam League Submitted: 15 November,2004 |
| 85 | Lotto's - It is all about trust, and honesty ! Preview: This week I received e-mails from a lady who participated in the match 5 competition, the match 5 competition is behind the link "Win 1000£" on the VWD website. http://www.e-vwd.com/redir.asp?m=1000000&target=/default.asp?goto=/vwdguest/match5.asp The lady believed she had won a much larger price but she had questions and doubts, and as we start... (more) Published By: Gino Harteel Submitted: 30 November,2004 |
| 86 | Money Doubler Madness Preview: After being around in the background for a while, money doublers suddenly became a huge craze on the internet. Forum message boards sported hysterical testimonials like "I Cycled!" and "I Got Paid!" I wonder if they call it a craze because it only crazy people fall for it. Well, I’m certainly not crazy, on the dull side of sensible I’d say if I w... (more) Published By: Elaine Currie, BA (Hons). Submitted: 02 December,2004 |
| 87 | Several Red Flags for Spotting a Phony or Scam Preview: The world is full of phonies and scammers these days. They use various mediums such as phone solicitation, spam email, magazine and newspapers ads, TV infomercials, and plain old snail mail. They are constantly searching for their next victim. Like P.T. Barnum once said, "there's a sucker born every minute", so there's a plenteous pool. To all... (more) Published By: Terry Mitchell Submitted: 21 December,2004 |
| 88 | Walmart Scammers Caught Preview: We found this quite interesting, how anyone would be able to pull this off. Four charged over $1.5m Wal-Mart price switch scam Two US couples have been arrested on suspicion of masterminding a price switching scam involving counterfeit bar codes estimated to have cost Wal-Mart stores across 19 US states a total of $1.5m over the last decade. Si... (more) Published By: dDawg Submitted: 06 January,2005 |
| 89 | They're Phishing Your Identity Online Preview: Identity Theft even though punishable by law with up to 15 years in prison, continues to flourish. And one increasingly popular way of capturing personal data is the form of phishing, which happens online. Many innocent computer users fall victim to this online scam. It has been reported that 5%, and up to 20% of the people fell victim to this sc... (more) Published By: Steve Dimeck Submitted: 19 March,2005 |