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Canadian Lady Scammed

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Online Recruitment Scam with High-Paying Jobs

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We received a hot scam from an email regarding online scam artists offering high-paying job of about 600 GBP per week, or US$9,000 per month. The scammer will require the victim to send an advanced fee to a personal account, in order to make the n

The Next Heartbeat for America and Iraq

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Each of us lives from heartbeat to heartbeat; no less so, each nation. The world watches the heart-stopper struggles against terrorists; to name a few: Mafia - Sicilian, American, Jewish, or Russian gangs; Hezbollah - Lebanese umbrella organization

Four Common Mistakes Made Using Web Templates (revised)

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There are templates available for web sites, web page headers and banners, navigation buttons, order buttons, and more. Templates save time and money, and they can greatly improve the look of a web site. However, the improper use of templates can

The Beginning of Civil War or The End of Civil Society?

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In a recent article by Dr. Amaal V.E. Tokars, she writes: "There has been much talk recently over whether or not Iraq has fallen into a state of civil war. If this talk is true, then the question of who is to blame for the violence has a simple answ

Old Man Lost More than $200,000

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Another dying woman wants to donate money

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Another dying woman wants to donate money

White Paper Cash Transaction

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Using White Paper as Cash

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Making Net-surfing as Easy as Pie

New To The Internet

I think the Internet is a blessing to the twenty-first century. It fixes us with people all over the world. It allows us to view information that we would otherwise be unable to read. Using it is probably easier than "easy as pie". And one of the thi

US$20 million from Lucas of Zimbabwe

419 Scams

What about the US$20 million? You will be getting 20% of that if you help Mr Lucas with his problem. That is US$4 million, much better than eating worms and running through obstacles in Survivor Series... ------------------Return-path: [lucasfamily

War Declared on Scams

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Look at what we found, "Papillion, NE - April 29, 2007 - D. Bennett Services (www.bennettsafelist.com) launches their professionally dedicated web listing of (memberships only) businesses, qualified through evaluation, screening, and BBB review, which demonstrate and...

Internet Explorer 7.0 Scam

Virus Scams and Alerts

Several of our 1,323,472 email addresses (setup just to perform spam+scam email mining) received an email from a scammer to download the latest Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0. The link goes to a site something like secure01xxx.com(?). We still have

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