Archive for the ‘Scams’ Category
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
The mailbox is something of a quandary. On one hand it contains some of our most important information -- check, credit cards, bank statement, vehicle registrations and letters containing great personal data. On the other hand it is probably the least secure device we own. We plant it on ...
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Thursday, September 24th, 2009
There's a new scam going around called "cramming" and you may be an unknowing victim.
Cramming is the act of pulling small amounts out of a victim's bank account. These amounts, normally in the realm of $5-$10 dollars, are normally unnoticed by the victim. Just think about it: how often ...
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Wednesday, September 9th, 2009
The latest scam to take the nation by storm has phony debt collectors contacting consumers and trying to collect past debt. The problem is that the consumer has already paid off the debt many years ago. This new breed of scammers has detailed access to people, including past debts ...
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Wednesday, August 26th, 2009
Heartbreakers was a movie that came out in 2001 that dealt with a mother (played by Sigorney Weaver) and daughter (Jennifer Love Hewitt) team who conned millionaires out of their money. While Barbara Niedkowski isn't Sigorney Weaver and her daughter, Delilah Campbell, is no Jennifer Love Hewitt, they're stories share ...
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Wednesday, August 5th, 2009
As if keeping an eye out for the taxman wasn't bad enough, now scammers are mimicking the IRS and other government agencies to trick you into giving away your personal information. The IRS recently released new reminders to consumers regarding a variety of scams currently being perpetuated -- most using ...
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Wednesday, June 24th, 2009
Growing up your parents told you not to talk to strangers. It wasn't because they thought strangers had your best interests in mind and didn't want you getting free lollipops and ice cream. It's because your parents knew there were bad people out there that were out to get you.
The ...
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Friday, June 19th, 2009
With Father's Day this weekend chances are you've already thought up and bought your father his gift. If your dad is anything like mine, that's an extremely hard process. Fathers are notoriously hard to buy for, so how much more difficult would it be to buy for two, or three ...
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Friday, June 12th, 2009
There are plenty of bands that want to make it big. However few of them go about it in the way you're about to read.
It seems that a gang of rather daft punks decided to used cloned credit cards from American and U.K users to purchase $750,000 dollars worth of ...
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Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
They say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder and that phrase has never been truer than in the case of Susan Shaw. Mrs. Shaw -- or as some people knew her Ms. Shaw -- is a former Miss Hawaii International beauty queen. Depending on who you ask, ...
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Friday, June 5th, 2009
Part of protecting yourself from identity theft online is creating strong passwords for your multiple online accounts. Many times passwords are simple words, dates or sequential numbers that are used because they're easy to remember. They're also easy to crack.
A good password utilizes numbers, regular characters, upper case characters and ...
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Thursday, May 14th, 2009
I was reading on the Internet about the porn name game, that has been popular on Twitter, where you answer some questions about yourself and it will generate your porn name for you. HAHA very funny, it’s good for a chuckle and it’s fun to send to your friends to ...
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Monday, September 22nd, 2008
ATMs have often been considered a breeding ground for scams. There have been a variety of scams that have been created specifically for the ATM. They are designed to steal your debit card information and supply it to the criminal.
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