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Dissecting Social Engineering Scams
I get offers for many products by e-mail which i mostly delete or let the spam filter take care of them. But in the past week i got bombarded from several different sources regarding one apparently free product. The sheer amount of e-mails made me read through one of them. It was an announcement for
Five scams on the rise
moneyfeatures.blogs.money.cnn.com — Tough economic times make fertile breeding ground for scammers and this recession is no different. I was at the Consumer Federation of America conference in Washington, DC last week, where several state consumer protection regulators spoke about the ... (more) Five scams on the rise
Watch Out for Stimulus Scams
kiplinger.com — I've been seeing lots of ads suggesting that the government will be sending people big checks, usually of more than $12,000, as part of the stimulus plan. Is the Treasury Department really going to send checks of this size? Nope. Scam artists miss no ... (more) Watch Out for Stimulus Scams
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baselinescenario.com 4/2/2009 — If your comments are not showing up: We use WordPress.com, and its optional spam filter, Akismet. I have no control over what Akismet flags as spam. Ordinarily it is very good, but I just looked in the spam folder and noticed that an unusually high number of legitimate comments got ...