Category Archive for 'Scams & Hacks'


Pharming is much the same as phishing in that you end up on a page that looks like the page you are supposed to be on.
The difference is that with pharming, hackers hijack links on other sites or the actual page you are supposed to have landed on. This can happen even if you have [...]

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Phishing as mentioned before, is one of the most common online scams. Here’s to resume yesterday’s post on What Is Phishing? And How Phishing Works
1. Never click on a link in your email that takes you to a log in page. Type the home site address into your browser if the site is one [...]

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“Phishing” is one of the most common online scams. A phishing site is a site that is set up to look like any legitimate site. Phishing sites get you by sending you an email that looks legitimate.
They are pervasive and responsible for defrauding people of hundreds of thousands of dollars every year.
Ebay has been used [...]

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People hoping to attend the Beijing Olympic Games have become victims of an international Internet ticket scam in which thousands of fake tickets were offered the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said today.
The IOC and the United States Olympic Committee filed a lawsuit last week accusing at least half a dozen Web sites of selling [...]

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What a terrible day I had. This morning I logged in to my Paypal account and discovered a $2,000 withdrawal transaction from my bank.
And then this $2,000 is transferred to a company which I do not know. Fortunately, both transaction was in uncleared status.

I then login to my eBay account and found that I’ve won [...]

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