Tax and Rebate Scams

Consumers get a call or e-mail claiming to be from a government agency, such as the IRS or Social Security Administration, that asks for personal information to process a rebate check. These crooks ask consumers to provide personal information like their social security number, bank account number, or other details they can use to commit identity theft. If they resist giving out information, they’re told they cannot receive the rebate unless the information is provided.

Cheap Electronics Scam

Shopping website that appears legit sells electronic products at extremely low prices. The site is so sophisticated, even the most savvy consumer will have a hard time telling it’s a fake. One recent article on PCMag, mentions these scamming sites may be part of a bigger network, since they all have a $500 minimum purchase requirement, and may ask for payment in the form of a Western Union money order to be mailed to a foreign address.

Chatroom Scams

Russian cyber-crooks have developed a software robot that poses as a human in chatrooms. These bots can chat with up to 10 people simultaneously, and easily persuade them to hand over phone numbers, photographs, birthday, address, and other personal information. The site claims “Not a single girl has yet realized that she was communicating with a program!” Information harvested by these bots can be used by fraudsters to carry out various forms of fraud. Unsuspecting victims may also be tricked into visiting a ‘personal site’ that could load malware onto their computers. Sergei Shevchenko, Senior Malware Analyst at PC Tools said CyberLover, “employs highly intelligent and customized dialogue to target users of social networking systems. It can monitor Internet browser activity, automatically recognize and fill in the fields in the web pages, generate keystrokes and mouse clicks, and post messages, URLs, files and photos.”

Local Charity Scams

Fraudsters claiming to be from the local police department or DARE program are calling or approaching private citizens and businesses soliciting donations purporting to benefit police officers. What’s convincing some people into handing over personal and financial information to these imposters is the spoofed number that pops up in the caller ID. Police say many victims have reported a phone number that appears to be from the local police department, so don’t be fooled.

Cancer Cure Scam

As more people turn to the web for medical advice, they’re encountering websites that advertise natural products they claim will prevent or cure everything from cancer to diabetes. Scammers know people are searching for natural remedies online, so they exaggerate the language on their site, and even add a few medical terms to sound legitimate. Oftentimes, they’ll claim their supplies are not sold anywhere else, and sell them at a high price. Unfortunately, there is no such thing as a miracle cure for cancer, but these scammers will have you believe there is, and will even discourage you from taking real medicine. The reality is many of these products are not proven, effective, or safe, and the sites are full of false testimonials.

Source : Yahoo tech

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Google mail

You may try it with enter url below into your browser to see what look like this features showing.

http://mail.google.com/gmail?nocheckbrowser

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But to prevent your account stealing by this thief,you can check details below.

1.Email Header

When you see sender email address on email header ,you should know directly if this email is scam activity.

2.They write real good and exactly Paypal email contents,but beware do not click on “Click here to activate your account” link.Why?
Now just move over your mouse cursor to that link and you will see landing page did not send you to paypal address.

Link on status bar when you move over your mouse on “Click here to activate your account” link.

So what to do if you receive an email like this

• DO NOT OR EVEN TRY respond to the email or enter any personal information. If you’ve already entered information, quickly reported to Paypal.
• Forward the email to spoof@paypal.com and PayPal will immediately work to shut down the scam site.
• Forward the email to spam@uce.gov and The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will place your email in a database and use the combined information to track down and prosecute the scammer.

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After successfully launching their business features ,twitter come with twitterspy .

With this features you can see/spying what other members talking about in real time,you can use their filter menu to protect or excluded some information that you don’t want see.

You may zoom out/in displayed the Google Map and choose desired location.

If you are developer you can use TwitterAPI to build tools that talk to twitter.more info how to use it you can read the API documetation on this page.

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Here Yahoo logo what I talking about.

and below is Yahoo! Mother’s Day Event with flash.

I love you mom

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Honestly this thief doing good job,see details below what I have from my email.

Header email seem valid.

Email Contents look professional

But here if you take a look closely you will find more weird thing here.

When you move over your mouse on “Log on” button you will see status bar (if you enable it) like this.

And when you decided to click on “Log on” button,then you will redirected to new page where thief set it like original site.See screenshot below to find out.

Fake Site (you should see when you click on “Log on” button)

Fake address.

See the address on your browser address bar.How can be HSBC have site with this address? LOL

Valid HSBC Site

And below is valid HSBC UK site.

Valid Address

And here valid address should appear on your address bar.

So beware with this kind phising method,dont let them stealing your bank account details.

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How to check it , click on Start > Run then type clipbrd and press enter or run.Clipboard windows should open and you

will see many copy screen made by PrintScreen function.If you let this go and not stop it,then your regular copy paste wont work,because all space on clipboard full with unnecessary history from auto PrintScreen.

If this happen you should disable your PrintScreen function to make your regular copy paste working again,many way to disable it but if you are want faster way just download file below,extract it and then put into your deskt

op and run it (double click) and you can control (Enable/Disable) your PrintScreen from your desktop.

Download ON/OFF PrinScreen

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You may to ask him/her to stop it or you may use service from StopForwarding.

What StopForwarding?

This site offering free service to politely and anonymously ask your friends or clients who send junk email to stop doing that.

This site will send 1 email every month to prevent abuse,what you need is enter your friend/clients name and email, then they’ll do the rest.

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After you choose option as free user to download file,then countdown time should appears and counting started.

After countdown finished then you should see image verification (CAPTCHA) and today rapidshare’s captcha format are very annoying and your new challenge started.Like or not you must pass this step to able download your file.

You must input 4 letters with “cat” pictures on it where other letters marked with “dog” pictures.

Personally after they use captcha like this,then I hit paypal button and buy rapidshare premium account for 3 months.I don’t want get annoying when identify it and this new image verification “diluent” me to buy their premium account.

And with rapidshare premium account you don’t have a waiting time and see this annoying captcha.

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