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I have run out of enough hours in the day to properly maintain and build this site. Rather than let it languish, I am putting it up for sale.
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Thank you.
There's a Trojan horse program going around that, if run, will put your files into an encrypted zip file and delete the originals. It also leaves a file called AUTO_ZIP_REPORT.TXT that contains instructions on getting your files back: send $300 ransom to an E-Gold account. The text file says, "If you really care about documents and information in encrypted files you can pay using electonic currency $300. Reporting to police about a case will not help you, they do not know password. Reporting somewhere about our E-Gold account will not help you to restore files. This is your only way to get yours files back."
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People have complained about the price of recorded music for decades. It's always seemed a little fishy that there was no price competition between the labels, and that CDs have always remained more expensive than cassettes, even though the discs are now dirt cheap to make. When music went digital, why did we see so few price points for individual tracks? Today, why are all the major labels simultaneously making noise about wanting Apple to offer variable pricing? The whole situation fueled paranoid claims about industry collusion and price-fixing that later turned out to be totally justified.
Now the sheep are waking up.
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The unfolding debit card scam that rocked Citibank this week is far from over, an analyst said Thursday as she called this first-time-ever mass theft of PINs "the worst consumer scam to date."
Wednesday, Citibank confirmed that an ongoing fraud had forced it to reissue debit cards and block PIN-based transactions for users in Canada, Russia, and the U.K.
But Citibank is only the tip of the iceberg, said Avivah Litan, a Gartner research vice president. The scam -- and scandal -- has hit national banks like Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and Washington Mutual, as well as smaller banks, including ones in Oregon, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, all of which have re-issued debit cards in recent weeks.
"He was the nicest guy you could possibly want to meet," Pam Smith thought of Fain after they met on her birthday, February 24. "Now, I feel like a fool."
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The Olympic Torch Hoax is being spread through email. It has been reported that the following text of the hoax may differ slightly in the various messages going around. The email warns of a virus that burns the whole hard disk drive a computer. This virus does not exist. In fact, no program, virus or otherwise, is capable of burning a hole into a disk drive.
Digg.com has an interesting story. It states, "Politicians should take notes from this eBay scammer who not only was courteous enough to tell the victim she was being scammed, but even continued to answer emails from the press! In the end, will it lead to her downfall?"
In fact, the victim did several things wrong. Most of her mistakes were well-known to experienced users of eBay and other online auction services. In fact, all of her mistakes could have been easily avoided.
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BALTIMORE, Md. - A new e-mail scam has surfaced recently. The Social Security Administration has received several reports of an e-mail message being circulated addressed to "Dear Social Security Number And Card owner" and purporting to be from the Social Security Administration. The message informs the reader "that someone illegally is using your Social Security number and assuming your identity" and directs the reader to a Web site designed to look like Social Security's Internet Web site
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Adam Vitale, aka Batch1 aka Baxter, 25, of Boynton Beach, FL, and his partner Todd Moeller, aka M3rk, of New Jersey, are accused of sending nearly 50,000 pieces of spam e-mail to more than 1.2 million AOL subscribers. US Secret Service agents used a confidential informant to hire Moeller and Vitale to deliver spam, which advertised a computer security product.
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This is not a scam. It is a pure case of human error, more properly known as user stupidity.
Edward Tom, director of admissions at the University of California, Berkeley, law school, was training a new office worker last week when it happened...
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Hundreds of new sites are trading on web users' ignorance by selling inadequate or unnecessary technical support for free software.
Austelle describes herself as "a frequent internet user" who checks her email daily, participates in forums, and has multiple online accounts. But that did not stop her falling for a new loophole by which sites provide software that's available free elsewhere - and charge for "support" that may be limited or even nonexistent.
A bulk e-mailer who looted more than a billion records with personal information from a data warehouse has been sentenced to eight years in prison, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.
Scott Levine, 46, was sentenced by a federal judge in Little Rock, Ark., after being found guilty of breaking into Acxiom's servers and downloading gigabytes of data in what the U.S. Justice Department calls one of the largest data heists to date. Acxiom, based in Little Rock, says it operates the world's largest repository of consumer data, and counts major banks, credit card companies and the U.S. government among its customers.
The warnings about Internet scams are almost as numerous as the scams themselves, but lately a new scheme has been duping even the most experienced computer users.
Crooks on the Internet have been posing as middlemen, targeting anyone selling a high-priced item online.
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The Better Business Bureau wants to warn you about foreign lottery scams that are being run in many areas.
The BBB said there's a new twist to the scam. Con artists are now sending out checks with lottery offers. The folks who receive them are told they have to cash the checks and then wire the money back, in order to collect their winnings. The problem is, the checks aren't worth the paper they're printed on.
Here is an article on how AT&T overcharges our troops in the middle-east. The overcharging of American soldiers for calls from Iraq and Afghanistan, as first reported in The Prepaid Press in January 2005, has caught the eye of a powerful organization: the American Legion.
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Have you heard the phrase "If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is"? There is a scam floating around on the Internet that certainly qualifies. It claims that the strangely titled (and fictitious) "Independent Committee of Eminent Persons" has found millions of dollars that you can claim.
The scam e-mail is humorous. Here are some of the claims:
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There is a website called WinFixer that attempts to install software on your computer to make it run faster. When you click on the "Cancel" button you will be taken to the website and presented with another opportunity to click on the "Install" button again.
Margaret Harrison, a young wife and mother living in San Diego, found out a laborer named Pablo has been using her Social Security number. Bank of America sent her a new debit card bearing her name and Pablo's picture! Margaret says the Bank of America claims it can't take any action against Pablo because he pays his bills on time
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Try typing "Firefox" into the search box on Google, Yahoo! or MSN. Now check out the paid advertisement for "FreeDownloadHQ.com."
FreeDownloadHQ is anything but free. These guys take FREE software and SELL IT FOR $37.95 and then have the nerve to call themselves FreeDownloadHQ! (By the way, they'll also sell you Internet Explorer, Opera and Netscape and any number of other free software programs.)
Now it's official: the Internet is looming large in all aspects of American life, even crime.
According to the "Consumer Fraud and Identity Theft Complaint Data" report, just released by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), identity theft was the most commonly reported complaint last year, representing 255,000 (37%) of the total 686,683 complaints filed in 2005.
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