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POPS How to get a Google Wave Invite Invites are being given out in small batches- if someone says they have 1,000 invites, beware! Tips & Warnings * If you get an invitation and go to sign up, and are presented with anything that tries to sell you something, back away as it's probably a scam. * Be careful! As with any big thing, spammers and scammers are trying to take advantage. If in your quest for Google Wave you're asked to scan for viruses or provide financial information, turn around- you're being scammed. 6 Search eBay for an invitation. A few Google Wave invite owners are selling on the site. You can bid, but beware eBay is deleting some of these listings because selling a Google Wave invite is like selling someone else's intellectual property.
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POPSSponsored search results lead to malware If you're not sure, verify the URL. Microsoft and Google have large payrolls, but the search giants don't employ literal armies to review ad submissions. If you're at all suspicious of an ad's legitimacy, check the URL via a service such as hpHosts, which tracks domain names that researchers have reported as malicious. Help vendors by reporting malicious advertisers. To report bogus ads on Google, e-mail security at google.com. This is likely to be more effective than reporting the site via the search giant's online form. If you discover malware purveyors advertising in Bing's results, e-mail secure at microsoft.com. Yahoo, however, offers only a Security Phishing Report Form.
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POPS Mafia, Violent Criminals Turn to Medicare Fraud
Some pay homeless people on Los Angeles' Skid Row for Medicare or Social Security numbers to use in fake billing invoices. Others intimidate elderly victims to use their Medicare numbers, federal authorities say. Most Medicare schemes are based in cities such as Miami, Los Angeles, Detroit and Houston. And rather than building an elaborate hierarchy like the Mafia or other gangs, many Medicare con artists use common street criminals to recruit patients and doctors, authorities said. A Medicare scammer could easily net at least $25,000 a day while risking a relatively modest 10 years in prison if convicted on a single count. A cocaine dealer could take weeks to make that amount while risking up to life in prison. "Building a Medicare fraud scam is far safer than dealing in crack or dealing in stolen cars, and it's far more lucrative," said Lewis Morris, lead attorney at the Department of Health and Human Services' inspector general's office.
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POPSE-Bay Scammer caught and gets owned by Judge Auctions were once an exclusive event for high-society types. But eBay brought fierce bidding wars to the masses. Unfortunately, scammers saw their chance to make a quick buck. And many of these scumbags are never caught or punished. But this time is different. These two bidders actually found the scammer who duped them. And they hauled her in front of Judge Judy. She gets the public scolding of a lifetime. And it’s exactly what she deserves. It’s great to see someone caught red handed.
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POPSbiltmore who's who | biltmore whos who scam Biltmore Who’s Who is not a scam…according to the many members who sing the praises of what this social networking and registry entity did to help them strengthen their business and personal brand reputation online.
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POPSTop 5 Current Email Scams You Should Know About continued...........Virus E-Mails Many people who want to scam you will create programs and spy applications that will send them your bank details as soon as you use any online monetary service. They normally skulk around in the attachments of e-mails. Many scammers will find a funny picture or video and will send it to as many people as they can. They are getting into the mindset of your typical office worker who will forward the e-mail to all his/her family, friends and co-workers. When these email scams are successful, scammers can often retrieve thousands of peoples details. Think about it. If they send it to one person who then sends it to thirty, each of these people will again send it to all their contacts. Hundreds of peoples’ details all in a very short space of time.
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POPSTo The RNC: WAKE UP The Republicans have for years presented themselves as "conservatives" and the party of "family values." Why is it that "conservative" doesn't include calling for EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THESE SCAMMERS TO BE THROWN IN PRISON and WHY IS IT THAT I KEEP HEARING ABOUT SOME FLOOZY SCANDAL FROM THESE SO-CALLED "FAMILY VALUES" CHAMPIONS? The ONLY difference between the RNC and DNC is that the DNC tells me up front that the Democrats intend to gang-rape me at the outset. The Republicans claim to intend to protect me, but then after I lower my guard I am violated from behind without warning. This is unacceptable but if I am forced to choose between being warned first and being lied to I'll take the warning thank you very little. I made clear to THE RNC that if they want one thin dime from me they can call again when every Republican Senator and Representative masses together on the steps of the Capitol and states in one loud, clear voice for all in America and every TV Network
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POPSThe Top Antivirus and Spyware Removals to Avoid Like the Plague Eventually getting hit by a nasty computer virus, trojan or severe Adware infection is bound to happen. These problems strike both experienced as well as novice computer users, and the only indication that something is wrong might be that a strange ad window keeps automatically popping up whenever you’re browsing the Internet or your computer slows down to an annoying crawl. Many people who are faced with these issues automatically turn to the Internet for either free or paid antivirus software. There have been many MUO articles covering various free antivirus or antispyware tools, such as Mark’s review of AVG or Bill’s review of Spyware Terminator. However, since so many people turn to the Internet when such a tragedy strikes, I wanted to take a moment to list some of the fake antivirus and spyware removals that you should stay away from or you’ll find your computer infected even worse.~~~~~~~~~ more at the site
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POPSFind Out a Website’s Actual Location with Flagfox Flagfox is a wonderful extension that can help make your website browsing more secure and give you peace of mind when it comes to knowing where a website is actually located. Give it a try, you just might be surprised to see where some of your favorite websites are located at!
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POPSBEWARE the Scammers, let alone the Spammers! Oh boy... do you get hooked on the Try the 7 Secret Amazing Formulas to ...? Read this for an eye opener! Some people are sure making bucks and I guess they should be congratulated as long as they are not taking people for a ride!
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POPS"Obama May Block Sun's Rays to End Global Warming" (Artificial volcanoes and millions of artificial trees sucking CO2 out of the atmosphere... gee, I can't think of anything that could go wrong with that. ) At first that seemed prohibitively expensive, but a re-examination of the approach shows it might be less costly, he said. Yeah, like printing trillions of dollars up. I wonder what temperature on Earth would make this crew of scammers and idiots happy? Is there a right temperature for the planet? Just wondering. Hat tip: Sean. The UN's IPCC Global-Warming Bunko Scam http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2007/04/uns-ipcc-global-warming-bunko-scam-uns.html
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POPShttp://www.nhpr.org/node/20647 To track your own online trail, try Google Alerts, which will check websites, blogs and news stories for any mentions of your chosen name or keyword and will send you regular e-mail updates with what it finds. Another option is Social NHPR's New Media Coordinator Brady Carlson is here with a warning to Facebook users on how to detect scams and viruses that could compromise you. Mention, which also follows microblogs like Twitter, online comment threads and photo sites like Flickr.
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POPSUnderground Economy doing well If criminals snagged $350 worth of goods out of each credit card on offer, the potential total worth of the online market would be $5.3 billion, according to the report (.pdf). If scammers could get $40,000 out of each bank account, then some $1.7 billion worth of bank accounts were on offer.
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POPSATM Machine Fraud Techniques ATM Fraud or Cash Money Theft is as old as the machines themselves. It can have very devastating effects on the victims, still it is not considered as one of the major fraud threats.
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POPSOffsetting carbon offsets Aren't you pissed off? I have an idea. This would be a company that receives payments to support the usage of fossil fuels to offset the ridiculous carbon offset scams that are fraudulently bilking morons out of their money. Here is how it would work. If your carbon footprint is lower than Al Gore's, then you pay carbon offset offsets to projects that increase the use of fossil fuels for the purpose of increasing your carbon footprint to equal that of Al Gore's. Is this NOT BRILLIANT? And get this, it is not a scam. It is helping to defeat a scam and render the practice of scammers useless.
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POPSUS recession will dwarf dotcom crash the clipped quote continues: "...and innovators, there exists now a nation of greenmailers, scammers, leveredged buyout artists, stock manipulators, and other assorted con-artists who believe that the way to wealth is to "Enron" the system."
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POPSFake Checks I received a fake check in the mail for $4700. I called the bank and verified it was fake. Too many people are falling for these scams.
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