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Grandpa, Grandma, I need some cash!

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Fake Check Scams Tricked 1.3 Million

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Are Rebate Processing Jobs a Scam?

Angel Stevens has been marketing her rebate processing work from home opportunity for some time now. The program makes some outrageous claims like that you can make up to fifteen dollars per rebate processed. When people read her website they being

Complains About DMOz

There are more than 50million sites in the world and only 4 million are in dmoz.org. There are some bad sites, but there are even more better sites that could have done well if they have been included in the directory. Ineffective DMOZWebmasters who

Betrayed By Love

A beautiful woman can inspire a person to do just about anything. But it is their heart that reveals the character of the person. Beware she can capture you through lies of love. She can be an instrument of Satan who wants to deceive you and lead

How To Use Search Engines for Accurate Results

The search engines aren't trying to frustrate you, just trying to reduce the prominence of spam. Their answer to this is to lend an unnaturally high prominence to what they call "authority sites". But that means you won't see sites that may have the

Lakeland: Big Bad Wolves (why?) arrested for scamming elderly folks

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Motzilla – Your Best Personal Settings

One important task to take care of before surfing the Internet, is your personal settings for the Mozilla Firefox 2 browser. In order to select the best options, click on [Tools] in the toolbar; click [Options] in the drop down menu. A screen will

Product Review: SpamArrest

Product Review: SpamArrest

Fake Names

How many times must we educate people that names stated on scams are mostly fake names. An exception are names reported in the news that are real names, and we are not going to hide that. So if you find any names inside here belonging to anyone you know, they are not...

Finding Non MLM Work At Home Opportunities

There are many types of work at home businesses that you might be considering getting into. If you are looking for a non MLM opportunity, you should know that there are also lots of them. There are several ways that you can distinguish an MLM opportu

Virus Scareware Scam

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How To Find A Legitimate Online Business

Finding a legitimate online business to be involved in these days has proven to be harder than it used to. With the increase in online business scams, you really need to put in extra effort to avoid falling into their traps. In this article I will to

Concierge Imposters

Newsweek has an article about outsourced concieges serving in the mid-range hotels. These service personnel may serve as good or even better than a qualified concierge, but they are not a member of the professional association of concierges. Article

Is this a scam: Duta Export

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