Crime Alert! Beware!

The following email was sent to me and I think that a lot of people would be interested to see it:


On the way to Canton , driving on Michigan Avenue , on Thursday morning, I saw an infant car seat on the side of the road with a blanket draped over it. I did not stop, even though I had all kinds of thoughts running through my head. But when I got to my destination, I called the Canton PD and they were going to check it out. This is what I was told...

"Several things to be aware of .. gangs and thieves, are now plotting different ways to get a person to "stop" their vehicle. "There is a gang initiation reported by the local police department that gangs are placing a car seat by the road...with a fake baby in it...waiting for a woman, of course, to stop and check on the baby. Note that the location of this car seat will usually be beside a wooded or grassy (field) area ...and the person - woman - will be dragged into the woods- beaten and raped- usually left for dead.

DO NOT STOP.


DIAL 9-1-1 AND REPORT WHAT YOU SAW.

"IF YOU ARE DRIVING AT NIGHT AND EGGS ARE THROWN AT YOUR WINDSHIELD. DO NOT OPERATE THE WIPER AND DO NOT SPRAY ANY WATER BECAUSE EGGS MIXED WITH WATER BECOME MILKY AND BLOCK YOUR VISION UP TO 92.5% YOU ARE THEN FORCED TO STOP BESIDE THE ROAD AND BECOME A VICTIM OF THIEVES. THIS IS A NEW TECHNIQUE USED BY GANGS.

PLEASE INFORM YOUR FRIENDS AND RELATIVES. THESE ARE DESPERATE TIMES AND THESE UNSAVORY INDIVIDUALS WILL TAKE DESPERATE MEASURES TO GET WHAT THEY WANT."

Please talk to your loved ones about this. This is a new tactic used and I would hate for anyone to fall victim to this kind of crime.

So please be on the lookout and remember to be careful out there!

"Your Wish Is Your Command"

I am a very big fan of the law of attraction which simply states that you will get what you focus on.

I have mentioned the law of attraction many times in my Working From Home blog. There have been quite a few times where I have been able to successfully attract money into my life and I really do believe that it was because of the law of attraction!

That's why it's so bad when I find out information that takes away from the law of attraction because I firmly believe that it works!

Someone called my attention to a CD serious called "Your Wish Is Your Command" which is a CD series. Although this sounds like the same thing that the law of attraction and "The Secret" teaches, I decided to find out more about this CD series.

Unfortunately what I have found is that this product has received a LOT of complaints! It seems that people have been getting excess charges on their credit cards and they have been having a lot of problems getting their money refunded even if they managed to get their money refunded at all! You can read these complaints and decide for yourself by clicking here.

Another Paypal Scare!

I was checking my email tonight and got this email that said that another email address had been added to my Paypal account.

Since I didn't remember doing this I decided to check this email out! The email said that a Yahoo email account had been added to my own Paypal account! (And it even wasn't any of my own Yahoo email accounts!) Since I didn't remember doing this I decided to check out my paypal account just to make sure! I did this and was relieved to see that the only email accounts on my Paypal account were the ones that I added myself!

This was really an authentic-looking piece of email and it is a good thing that I checked it out! (and by checking it out I mean that I went directly to the Paypal site and I did not click on the link that was provided in the email!)

So here you yet another example of how people are trying to get access to one's Paypal account. If you ever get email like this go to the Paypal site directly and do not click on the link in the email!

Please be sure to visit my other blogs The Unclaimed Money Blog - for more information about unclaimed money. Are you or someone else in your family on the list for unclaimed money? Be sure to check out my blog and see!

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.

Another Paypal Phishing Scam!

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Be Careful Of THIS Email Scam!

As soon as I saw this in my email box I knew that it was a scam email! So please be careful if you receive an email similar to this one! Just so you know that you're not alone, I decided to post a copy of this email - past dated 2008!


YAHOO INTERNET AWARDS 2008
Yahoo Awards Center
124 Stockport Road, Longsight,
London M60 2DB
United Kingdom.

Dear Email Owner,

CONGRATULATIONS!!! CONGRATULATIONS!!!

This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of GBP800,000,00 British Pounds (Eight Hundred Thousand British Pounds). Only for the email users this 2008 Prize promotion which is organized by YAHOO INTERNET AWARDS 2008.

Yahoo! Collects all the email addresses of the people that are active online this 2008, among the millions that subscribed to Yahoo and few from other e-mail providers. 12 people are selected monthly to benefit from this promotion and you are one of the Selected Winners this month of October 2008.

PAYMENT OF PRIZE / CLAIMS

Winners shall be paid in accordance with their Settlement Centers. Yahoo Prize Award must be claimed not less than 3Weeks from the date of Draw Notification. Any prize not claimed within this period will be forfeited and returned to its source as unclaimed Prize/Fund.

STATED BELOW ARE YOUR IDENTIFICATION NUMBERS:
BATCH NUMBER: xxxx............
REFERENCE NUMBER: xxxx............
FILE NUMBER: YAHOO/xxxx............

You are Advised to contact your Claim Agent with the below contact details and forward your winning and personal identification numbers to him:

CLAIM AGENT NAME: DR. JAMES SMITH
TEL: xxxx............
CONTACT E-MAIL: xxxx............

You are advised to send the below following informations to your claim agent to enable him facilitate the release of your fund to you by our Paying Bank.

1. Your Full name:
2. Your Country:
3. Contact Address:
4. Telephone Number:
5. Fax Number:
6. Marital Status:
7. Occupation:
8. Sex:
9. Age:

Congratulations!!! Once again.

Yours in service,
Mrs. Susan Leonard.
(Awards Notification Officer)

I Almost Thoght That This Was Real!

I got this email recently:

Your Payment Agreement

Dear customer,

You have set up a Payment Agreement to automatically pay your eBid seller fees with PayPal. The description of your agreement is shown below:

Description: eBid Seller Fees

If you did not authorize this agreement please click the link bellow:

https://www.paypal.co.uk/xxxxxxxxxxxx

Please do not reply to this email. This mailbox is not monitored and you will not receive a response. For assistance, log in to your PayPal account and click the Help link in the top right corner of any PayPal page.

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Now since I do belong to Paypal, I almost thought that this email was real until I looked at the provided link more closely! The link DOES NOT take you to a legitimate Paypal site! Instead it goes somewhere else.

If you have a Paypal account you have to be very careful when you get any Paypal-related email. Since belonging to Paypal means that you are doing financial transactions online you want to be very careful that no one else - besides you and Paypal - have access to your account! If you do get a Paypal-related email you should not click on any link provided! What you should do is go directly to your Paypal account and see if there are any problems with your Paypal account.

I have had the experience of talking to Paypal on the phone and so far I haven't had any problems with them yet - indeed a few of those times the people that I talked to were very helpful!

These kinds of emails are sent because people are "phishing" for you account information. Once they have your account information they may be able to withdraw your Paypal funds!

So you have to be very careful!