Archive for the 'Scams' Category

If It’s Too Good To Be True, It Probably Is!

Saturday, February 3rd, 2007

It’s one of my motto’s in life. And almost all the time I see around me examples that strengthen my belief in it. The last one belongs to Adnan. If you want to find out the details read his post Case Study: RSS Scraping.
It’s not my intention to rewrite his own experience. I just want [...]

“Make $25-$75/Hour By Completing Surveys In Your Spare Time” or What’s The Story With Paid Surveys?

Wednesday, January 24th, 2007

I found a thread on the forum from whydowork.com called “Don’t fall for survey scams”.
There’s 3 main ideas that come out of the discussion (a very short one as a matter of fact):

Most of the paid surveys web sites you see are nothing but a huge list of sites that will actually send you surveys.
You [...]

Phishing - It Still Happens

Wednesday, January 17th, 2007

Unfortunately it does and what’s even worse is that there’s still folks out there who fall victim to phishing scams.
A friend of mine received an email which seemed to be from Yahoo!. It said that due to a large number of login attempts his account was going to be susspended unless he clicked on a [...]

Latest eBay Scam

Friday, January 12th, 2007

Yesterday, The Digerati Life talked about the latest eBay scam. I have heard of it on the news about a month ago. A quite good amount of money had been stolen before the scammers were caught.
What happened? A bunch of guys were following various bids (apparantely for all kind of products; no preferences). Once the [...]

Disadvantages of Working at Home - part 4

Monday, January 1st, 2007

As I’ve said in this post a topic such as advantages and disadvantages of anything is a very subjective one. What might be an advantage for me, might be a disadvatages for you and the other way around. And while there are certain advantages and disadvantages I have in mind, there might be others [...]