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Games With A Nigerian
These emails were an attempt to explore the scam, and at a certain point, I jumped out.
Notice that they must get endless responses from people, or have very bad English comprehension, or both, as they don't seem to read most of the responses in any detail. Maybe they should work in the Tech Support industry. 😛
Identity Theft Scam Examples
ONLY IN SCAMS does an email ask you to confirm account information for a bank or other account. Pretending to link to eBay or Citibank or wherever and having fake look-alike pages (that are sometimes pretty damn convincing) should always raise a flag.
If a legitamate company wants you to review your information, they will SHOW YOU your “current” information, proving they already have it, and will only ask you to log in the usual way at the site you usually go to. NO EXCEPTIONS.
Don't believe me? Next time you get such an email, put in a fake account username, password whatever, and it wont even notice …
Search Engine Scams
Here are some unrealistic promises to rank your site at the top of major search engines. Some are false advertising, but some are outright scams …
Nigerian Scams
Here are most of the Nigerian Scam emails I have received when it first started to become popular. Most are claiming to be from Africa (go figure), but as you will see, they are often pretending to be related to events in the news (9-11, plane crashes, wars, etc.) and have since grown to include posing as people from Iraq and any other country in the world it seems.
Reading these will be fun for some, frustratingly angering for others, or may even bore some to tears, but here they are … scamholes from around the world.
Aol Cover Art Contest
There's a contest running in the AOLers Anonymous Forum!
(All details are oposted there, and anyone can enter)
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Vote! What’s The Worst Problem?
Feel free to post comments, especially if you have a beef about something not on the list, or would choose more than one.
AOL 8.0
This poll is only for people using AOL 8.0 software on a Windows PC.
Note: This is not a scientific poll!
However, it IS a poll of the various people visiting this site, and will give some sort of cross section of people with various operating systems (not any particular one). We may make a more detailed poll in the future …
Feel free to share your comments, mentioning your operating system and version of AOL if appropriate. Thanks!
Pending News Regarding Aol
I was just interviewed today by someone from a national publication regarding my AOL tech support page and experiences as someone in the industry. They visited both Kentropolis's AOL page and GeeksBearingGifts.com
If the article runs, I'll link to it from here and the GBG site.
I better tidy up as much as I can! Rob — better be ready for some bandwidth! (I know it's not a problem for our servers, but I'd like to see a spike or two hit us!)
Site Changes
I'm looking for feedback on where to go with GeeksBearingGifts.Com …
Should I put latest news articles on the main page?
I definitely will link to the forum here from the nav structure.
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