Stories tagged "scam"

According to next week's circular, Best Buy will be promoting free in-store phone and email setup -- a complimentary offering at Apple's own retail shops -- to customers who purchase an iPhone 3G with one of four pre-designed accessory packages.

Two recently issued reports portray the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) as a bureaucracy that enables cyber criminals.

Nearly 100 domains related to Hurricane Gustav have been registered in the past 48 hours - some of which may be used by bogus charity and relief scams.

Bad checks, bid shielding, stolen payment information, drop shipping scams!!!

I've been scammed! Yep, me, who is always writing about how not to get scammed. I am the squeaky wheel that just got greased, and not in a good way. So, I am going to tell you what happened, and what to look out for, so that you don't fall for it too.

The Original Orovo was the greatest diet pill ever "Accidentally Invented"

I noticed one comment to my blog that contained nothing more than a link to a fake Google site. Over the next several weeks I noticed a lot more of these. Every one resolves to the same IP address: 124.217.253.8 - registered to Piradius.net in Singapore.

On June 1, of 2008, the Retire In One Year program went through an important transition that would either make, or break the program. Before the program transition the idea of the program was simple:

According to a paper published in the current issue of Annals of Internal Medicine, Merck conducted a sham clinical trial whose purpose was to turn 600 physician-researchers into marketing seeds to boost sales of its arthritis medication Vioxx.

Chief Executive of HBOS, the UK's 4th largest bank, has had his identity stolen and accounts plundered by fraudsters.