27. Donât let them get away with it. Get mad or get even! Report them immediately to: http://www.ic3.gov/complaint/default.aspx ORâŚbecome a scam baiter (not really recommended, but some people are just really angry)
37. Trans- national crime gangs. Â Russian "Mafia," Colombian and Mexican drug cartels, Asian Triads, Japanese Yakuza, Nigerian confidence rings, Hell's Angels, rogue factions of the St. Regis Mohawk tribe and the surviving, leaner and meaner Cosa Nostra http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwtLZV010-M
46. TemptationâŚ..Grooming Ref. Number:EGOGHS255125600419  Batch Number: 14/ 01259/ IPD  Ticket Number:113-2471-752-209  Serial Number: 5063-11  Attention  We are pleased to inform you of the result of the Winners  in our UNIVERSAL STAKES Lottery Program held on the 20th  JULY, 2004.Your e-mail address attached to ticket number  27522465896-6453 with serial number 3772-554 drew lucky  numbers 7-14-18-31-45 which consequently won in the 2ND  category, you have therefore been approved for a lump sum  pay out of USD$1,500,000 ( One Million Five Hundred  Dollars) Only . CONGRATULATIONS!
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55. Any Web site or print ad offering free credit reports has to display this disclosure across the top of each page: THIS NOTICE IS REQUIRED BY LAW. Read more at FTC.GOV. You have the right to a free credit report from A nnualCreditReport.com or 877-322-8228, the ONLY authorized source under federal law. In September 2010 the rules will go into effect for TV and radio ads. Beware! Not so free credit reports.
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Editor's Notes
Some viewers of Gilligan âs Island apparently took the show seriously in the 1960s. The U.S. Coast Guard received several telegrams from concerned citizens asking why they didnât rescue the Minnowâs crew. This has been an excellent week. I have received four or five emails from London and Africa announcing that I have been selected to receive, from each of them, sums in eXcess of ten million dollars The quite remarkable fact seems to be that one fellow âs plane crash, anotherâs unexpected demiseâapparently run over by a herd of elephantsâ a thirdâs cruel wife, have all resulted in me being just the right person on the planet to receive millions of dollars which was left in their estates. Not only that: Several lotteries have paid off this week as well, and, just like the poor African ministers who want to share their millions with me, the lottery companies are happy to send money as well. It seems all I have to do is let any one of these secret correspondents know a few details about my bank account and social security number and my life worries will be over.
Starting next week, Verizon will double the early-termination fee for smartphones... ...The phone is designed in such a way that you can almost never avoid getting $1.99 charge on the bill. Around the OK button on a typical flip phone are the up, down, left, right arrows. If you open the flip and accidentally press the up arrow key, you see that the phone starts to connect to the web. So you hit END right away. Well, too late. You will be charged $1.99 for that 0.02 kilobytes of data... ...Every month, the 87 million customers will accidentally hit that key a few times a month! That âs over $300 million per month in data revenue off a simple mistake!..
Web criminals are getting much more personal in their attacks, using social networking sites and other databases to make their story lines much more believable. Bryan Rutberg's daughter was among the first to notice something odd about her dad's Facebook page. At about 8 p.m. on Jan. 21, she ran into his bedroom and asked why he'd changed his status to: âBRYAN IS IN URGENT NEED OF HELP!!!â In Rutberg's case, criminals managed to steal his Facebook login password, steal his Facebook identity, and change his page to make it appear he was in trouble. Next, the criminals sent e-mails to dozens of friends, begging them for help.
Don ât do any banking unless you know it a secure location. How? Look for âhttpsâ (not just http) in the URL and the small padlock icon in the lower right hand corner of your browser.
Now, a new site called CreditKarma is offering free daily credit scores. For comparison, FICO âs own Score Watch program costs $89.95 per year. So whatâs the catch? 1. Itâs not a real FICO score. This is another FICO-clone, with a score ranging from 300 to 900. (FICO is from 300 to 850.) It also doesnât say from which bureau this score is based upon, as they say they can pull from any of the big three (Experian, Equifax, Transunion). My guess is that theyâll use whatever is available that is both cheaper than FICO and still reasonably accurate. Thatâs what I would do⌠2. You only get the score. The service is pretty barebones. You donât get information about whoâs pulling your credit, how often they are doing it, or information about your existing credit lines. So the âalertsâ feature is missing. Instead, the primary attraction is the ability to see trends - is your score increasing or decreasing over time? 3. They are advertiser-supported, so I guess they are counting on people to obsessively check their score every day. Iâve always been a bit mystified by such behavior, but I donât check the stock market ticker all day long either. From their privacy policy it seems that they are using your personal information to target ads to you, but arenât actually sharing your info with others unless you opt-in. I sure hope not! Security and Privacy Concerns Okay, itâs free, so price isnât a barrier to using this service. But itâs definitely wise to think twice before giving out personal information like my Social Security number to a start-up company. I read through their site, and didnât see any glaring security holes. They use common third-party systems like ScanAlert Hacker Safe, TRUSTe, and Verisign. If you do notice something fishy, please share in the comments. The CEO will be reading, given that heâs the one that told me about this site.
