Scams

Scams look like this

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I have made a commitment to myself as well as those who take the time to read this blog to call out less than honest people (and honest people) who are taking people for a ride. Many of the people who read this blog are freelance writing people who have done website content for clients. As a writer, I’ve done the same thing. Bloggers who participate in affiliate programs such as Google Adense are required (per the Google TOS) to include a Terms of Service as well as a Privacy Policy on their website or their blog. There are...

You have to admit that scammers are a persistent lot. In fact, I found this Blog about an Email Scam dated May 6 of 2011. Guess what? She’s back. She’s changed some things in her email such as: Her email address was: info@mcsp-online.com and now it’s fpsfoundation33@gmail.com. Interestingly enough she hasn’t changed the “batch number” or the reference number (laughing). The old “Foreign Transfer Manager” was some poor slob named Steven Magua and now his name is James Marshall. His contact information is different as well. The biggest problem with these things is that there are people who are...

“There’s a sucker born every minute” – George Hull These words ring true as the Internet takes up more time each day. Internet scams run rampant and regardless of how much people try to avoid getting taken in, this type of scam is likely to make people at least take a closer look: Dear sir/madam This is a personal email directed to you. My wife and I won a Jackpot Lottery of $11.3 million in July and have voluntarily decided to donate the sum of $500,000.00 USD to you as part of our own charity project to improve the...

You have to admire people who are working hard to get new backlinks on sites that have a decent page rank. In fact, they get even more credit in today’s “post Panda” Internet. But the level of stupidity of these marketers is absolutely dumbfounding since it is clear that they do not even bother to check out what they are doing and how it is working. I suppose the theory is that if you throw enough stuff out there something will stick. Some time back I was forced to block comments from the site because I was averaging about...