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Friday, March 30, 2007

Wednesday, March 28, 2007

IRS email scam

Spam is a pain and its getting advanced. The detectors cant even catch the most advanced spam. The button that identifies emails as spam sometimes even lets spam you already blocked in. One piece of advanced spam is the “Irs email scam”. Basically you get a email requesting vital information such as your social security number, address, credit card number and more. When you see the Irs you automatically think its safe (maybe) giving them your information. You should never give your personal information through email. Even dateline proved that some thieves hack into big corporations and steal people’s credit card numbers. The more the info is out in cyberspace the more easy it is to take. Be careful of the Irs email scam. Always remember most of the time you’ll never be ask for personal information through your email, not even most passwords are sent through emails, from any reputable company or in this case the government. This goes to show that thieves will use any means to take your identity. This is a very low sort of scam, using the federal government to steal from people is sad. Usually if a company wants info, they want you to go through their website.. Thieves will always advance their scams so this one will evolve more and then another scam will be invented. Always remember to trust your instinct.

Monday, March 26, 2007

Cbs vs google

Viacom (CBS) is suing you tube (Google), for displaying clips of their shows like CSI and the Colbert report. I would like to know why. Being on you tube, wouldn’t you get more exposure, more fans, intern bringing more revenue. Won’t people get sick of the six minute clips and poor video quality and watch it on t.v. Viacom should think as you tube doing a service, like teaser trailers. It sounds like Redstone (ceo of Viacom) is trying to start something. There is the argument that they may lose veiwers. Some viewers don’t want to sit through the show or cant because their at work so they just watch it on you tube, or just to avoid commercials causing lost revenue. The marketing spreads the word and most likely expands the viewer-ship of the show, it should help more than it hurts. You tube is a necessity for low fan base shows or for marketing efforts. Surely CBS has figured it cause more loses. Notice they waited till google bought you tube.

Lets hit a billion dollar company instead of a million dollar company, heck we could use the extra cash. This may not even be a suit to get of you tube it could be just for some extra cash in the bank. Whatever it is I believe that there are some sort of laws that will protect you tube and make sure that they cant be sewed. One thing is for sure google will fight to the end and most likely prevail.

Friday, March 23, 2007

Dateline going after id thieves

Dateline Tuesday March 28, at 8pm (cst) is going to investigate Identity theft. A billion dollar industry that affects more than ten million people a year nationally This will be interesting especially since dateline has been researching this for a whole year. Keeping Americans aware of it well help avoid it. I encourage everyone to watch it. This should be a good show it will keep you interested and it will bring you closer to the truth. Believe me id theft stops your life and it is so hard to recover from. Don’t be a victim and don’t miss this episode of Dateline.

Even the people closest to you will steal it. These Id thieves do not care about you. For them your just another number. Some of the most elaborate thieves steal hundreds of credit card numbers. Then encrypt the location of the funds making it harder to track. By watching dateline we can explore this ludicrous act that has affected many. Dateline will most likely interview several victims and several of the thieves themselves. Also it will explore the reason behind it, why they do it and who they target. And finally they will give you the best means to protect yourself and teach you how to notice it early on. It will build a defensive tool box that you can use to protect yourself and not let anyone take a ride on your money. Learn the tricks and you wont be a victim.

Sunday, March 18, 2007

Getting rid of junk mail

Junk mail, it’s like spam only more irritating. It seems like everyday I get it. It’s really annoying when it’s not marked. You think its important, only to find a credit card offer or some stupid “opportunity”. Around 10% of Identity theft occurs throw the mail, because its not disposed of properly Junk mailers should get together and send out shredders to everyone. There are three main shredders, the line strip, the cross cut, and the diamond cut which is used for accounting firms and meet standards for the department of defense and provides a higher level of security. But in the end it doesn’t really matter at least it getting shredded A shredder is just one tool that helps to stop Identity thefts. We usually get our Identities stolen by our own negligence.

One solution is to try and get off the mailing list. Some of the junk mail contains words like “remove me from the mailing list” ( I think the one I found was in a capital one offer, one that they sent me every week for years). Call that number and request to get off it. It usually takes a couple of months to get off the list but it’s a relief when it happens, if you can’t find that take a look at this.

Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Trying to make money online

Type “Make money online” in Google and see the 144-million results and of these only 10,000 are even slightly legit. It amazes me to see the number of people that fall into these atrocious scams. Its disgusting and horrible. A couple proven ways to make money online includes selling stuff on eBay, amazon, building your own website and selling a product or using Adsense (or similar programs) and a few others. I know the eight hours a day are horrible believe me I have one, but investing in something that’s not realistic is even worse. Most scammers will lie just to get your money.

You know those survey sites, those are a bunch of bull. Most of them set you up with a point system that give you one to three points per survey and you can win prizes or you if want cash you got to have 1000 points to get $5, but you can't take out cash until you reach $30.00. Member fees reaching $49.99 this disappointment is not a “life changing system”. Please avoid these sites who promise you the world. Remember if everyone did it then it wouldn’t work.