Dentistry List For $249?

Interesting bit of email came in my email box today:


New for 2009 Dentistry List in the United States

** 164,656 |>entists with City, State, Zip

** 158,803 Addresses

** 163,668 Phone Nos

** 77,066 Fax #'s

** 45,089 E-Mail Addresses

Price Only until the end of this week
$249 for all listed above

Get details by emailing here: Gxxxx@xxxxxxxxxx.info

Is it just me or could you get this same kind of information simply by looking into the yellow pages?

Google Income Library?

I was just about to check my email when I saw this online news line link about a woman who was making a lot of money from working at home. I was curious about this since I also have a Working From Home blog as well! So I decided to take a closer look at the article.

The online newspaper article was about a woman who was making money at home using a program called "Google Income Library". It seems both she and her husband were laid off from their jobs and they were looking into ways of making money online. The article also said that they did get scammed by a few of those online work from home sites.

But it seems that this "Google Income Library" program was working very well for them. The article had a picture of one of their checks which was for $5,000.

This looked very interesting to me and I went to the site to find out more about the "Google Income Library" program. I was dismayed to find out that even though this program is advertised as a free program you have to pay a shipping and handling fee which means that you are going to have to give them a credit card number.

This was a warning flag for me! So what I decided to do was to look into it even further. Every related site that I went to says that this program is a scam - mainly because it is not affiliated with Google in any way. I also found out that if you are thinking about signing up for this program then you should read the fine print because when you do sign up for this program you are getting trial memberships and you will have to cancel them or otherwise you'll be charged additional money per month!

What really freaks me out is that this online article was part of an online newspaper (from New York) which looked legitimate enough for me and I was almost thinking about signing up for this program! It is a very good thing that I decided to check it out first!

Instead of providing a link to the online article, here is a link to one of the sites that discusses how this program is a scam!

The Top 10 Scams For 2008!

There is an online article that is listing the top 10 scams for the year 2008!

As you can imagine some of those in the top ten include government grant schemes, mortgage foreclosure help, credit repair help and working from home jobs!

It is a very informative article and you can read it online by clicking here.

Do You Have A Paypal Account?

Then you are going to have to be VERY careful with the email that you get! Here is a copy of a recent email that was sent to someone:

PayPal is committed to maintaining a safe environment for its community of buyers and sellers. To protect the security of your account, PayPal employs
some of the most advanced security systems in the world and our anti-fraud teams regularly screen the PayPal system for unusual activity.

Recently, our Account Review Team identified some unusual activity in your account. In accordance with PayPal's User Agreement access to your account will be limited. This is a fraud prevention measure meant to ensure that your account is not compromised.

In order to secure your account we may require some specific information from you. We encourage you to log in by clicking on the link below and complete the requested form as soon as possible.


https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_login-run

Ignoring our request, for an extended period of time, may result in account limitations or may result in eventual account closure.

Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter. Please understand that this is
a security measure meant to help protect you and your account.
We apologize for any inconvenience.


Sincerely,
PayPal Account Review Department


PayPal Email ID PPxxx

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*Please do not respond to this e-mail as your reply will not be received.

Now this email looks legitimate! It has all of the paypal logos included with the email BUT if you take a look at the link that they want you to go to you will see that it goes to an entirely different site! (Also this could be a good legal case for Paypal because whoever sent this email is using Paypal's official (and I'm guessing copyrighted) logos and Paypal could possible have a very good (and profitable) copyright infringement case againt whoever sent this email!

So please be careful when you get email like this. If you have a paypal account and you get an email like this then contact Paypal directly! Do not click on any links from the emails!

We Suspect Unauthorized ATM Activity On Your Account!

Here is a copy of a recent email that I received:

Dear ~,

We recently reviewed your account, and we suspect an unauthorized ATM based transaction. Therefore as a preventive measure we will temporary limit your access to sensitive Abbey features.

To ensure that your account is not compromised, please login to your Abbey Online Banking and verify your identity to prevent deactivation.

SERVICE: Abbey Online Banking.

What you need to do:

- Go to: Abbey Online Banking

- Login to Online Banking.

Thanks for your patience.

Sincerely,

Abbey National Centre

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For any inquiries, contact Customer Service.

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Of course I have never heard of this place before!

But I post it here so that you can see that this is just yet another example of attempts to get one's account information.

If you get any kind of email like this and you DL have an account with the company in question - DO NOT RESPOND BY CLICKING ON ANY OF THE LINKS THAT ARE PROVIDED!

Call the company itself and find out for sure whether or not there is something wrong with your account - whether it be your banking account or some other company that you have a financial account with!

Ebay Scam!

I am a member of Ebay and so far I haven't had an problems with it. But I recently became aware of someone else's experience that really should "raise a warning flag" when it happens.

A bidder put in a bid for a certain, specific item but lost the bid to a higher bidder - which of course can happen.

BUT the bidder then received an email from the person that placed the item (or so they said they were the person that placed the item) asking him if he still wanted the item. Of course the bidder said yes and plans were made to get the information about payment and shipping. Then the bidded gets a second email from someone who wanted to give them different information about where to send the payment. (The second email came with the information that now the item was available at a lower price.) This raised a "warning flag" with the bidder and he decided that he no longer wanted the item.

Unfortunately the bidder has been receiving email after email about the item and whether or not they still want it or not - which is becoming quite a nuisance.

Now there are some things that I could say here about how this was done but I don't want to give anyone any ideas on how they can do the same thing.