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Let’s face it; in a world that is heavily reliant upon technology, especially the Internet, none of us are entirely safe from running into an online scam. There are literally thousands of them, and even though you may consider yourself “e-smart,” the people who set up these scams may be looking to target those who [...]
Posted by Ash Grant on Wednesday, June 2, 2010 at 12:01 am
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The internet is truly the wave of the future for all people, but then we have to include scammers and “matchstick men” into that equation. Scammers have used the same “patterns of hustle” since antiquity, but now they’ve taken a new form: a virtual one. There’s almost no greater way to bilk someone out of [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Friday, April 23, 2010 at 12:53 am
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