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Money Making Scams

Coca Cola 2014 Promotion

This e-mail kind of caught my attention at first since it used a well-known brand name. Of course, after reading it the mil seems clearly to be an attempt to get information out of people. I like how all the places they tell you to contact is overseas as well. That should usually be a

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Money Making Scams

Intuit GoPayment

For the past few days I have been receiving this e-mail that looked shady. Essentially, it seems like there is a company that is targeting people who use Intuit products where they then attempt to get people’s user data. This is the e-mail I got: X-Account-Key: account2 X-UIDL: 1349447270.25898.pt05 X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 X-Mozilla-Keys: Return-Path:

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Salvation Army Tsunami Spam

Guess this was bound to happen. As a result of that earthquake in Japan it seems like somebody is trying to get people to donate money for what seems to be a charitable cause. In this case, the e-mail advertises itself as from the Salvation Army. Just looking at the sender e-mail makes me think

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Business

Reputation Through Association

So today I received an e-mail from a company that was trying to get businesses to try a demo of their product. As an incentive they planned to give people that participated quite a bit of money in the form of a giftcard. The funny thing was I never heard of the company before. However,

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Business

Auto Generated Product And Service Reviews

I guess like most people who run a site they have to deal with a gargantuan amount of spam. While browsing through my list for this blog it was interesting to see that one spam in particular was a review of sort for Yahoo! Web hosting it seems. It basically had generic praises as if

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Money Making Scams

Google Promotion Awards Team Prize

Okay, who are these guys trying to fool? An online cyber draw from a Google Corporations and I apparently won GBP 950,000,00 {Nine Hundred And Fifty Thousand Great British Pounds Sterling} in money? Yeah, sure. Here was the e-mail: From – Wed Jan 13 17:48:49 2010 X-UIDL: 1263433506.24562.pt01 X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 X-Mozilla-Keys: Return-Path: Received:

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