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Scammers Target Craigslist Realtor

Newspaper classifieds have a friend in scammers. Though hemorrhaging sales to Craigslist, fraudulent posters there may drive legitimate businesspeople back to where they've done business for decades.

SiteTruth Wants You to Know Who You're Dealing With

It's no wonder that your customers have learned to be a bit wary on the Web. Spam steals their attention. Scams steal their money. Phishing steals their very identities. Some of your customers are relying on search engines to separate the wheat from the chaff. If your company shows up at the top of the search results, searchers assume that it's because your company is reputable, but John Nagle thinks Google needs some help.

Calling it a Scam, Then Selling it

To be honest, I have used the "scam or not" angle before when trying to pull in traffic for something and have called stuff a "scam" when I did not like it, but I have never called something a scam right before trying to sell it.

Sometimes Search Is Better Than The Cops

One good way to take a bite out of cyber-crime is to report scammers to Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask, and the other search engines. How do you do that? By blogging about the details.

Watch Out for Craigslist Scams!

Consider this post a public service. Two people who I know well were getting close to caught up in a real estate scam on Craigslist, and in the extended entries I'm including the correspondence.

Spam Products Filling Up Inboxes

Deals that look too good to be true for hot gift items probably pose a threat to shoppers, as the deals front for credit card stealing websites.

Online Scams Up 166 Percent

Okay, ladies, here's something you poke fun of the men with: While more men than women claim to be well-informed about online scams, more men have fallen victim to them than women.

AdSense Secret Feature: Protects Vs. 419 Scams

Don't like those ads in your Gmail inbox? Well, stop complaining, because they might be protecting you.

Click Fraud Scams Revealed

SEOmoz questioned the "click-fruaders" and asked them to share some of the techniques used to get paid by Google and the other search engines.

Microsoft Helping Nigeria End Money Scams

Those nonstop scam emails from Nigeria that attempt to swindle people will face new law enforcement efforts aided by Microsoft.