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Free Email Services – they can be useful!
Sooooo I went to the ZZN.com website, a free email service provider – it’s been around for years and does not seem to be going anywhere soon – and created a SCAMDEX.ZZN.COM email service – so you can go there and get a mystoopidname@scamdex.zzn.com email address to use and abuse as you wish. Great if […]
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… From CPanel to …. what??
I am an old Unix dude, I have installed more different versions of Unix than most people – Everything from Sco Xenix/286 thru to Centos5.2 and I don’t usually have much problems – but as time wears on, my brainDisk is starting to squeal and it’s not as fast at random access as it used […]
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US-CERT Re-Issues Warning about Shopping Online
This is a notice that you should send to your family and friends, (especially the ‘silver surfers’) and maybe even stick on the ‘fridge door and on the side of your monitor, just so you remember. Help make this a Scam-Free Christmas! US-CERT Issues Warning about Cyber Shopping Online shopping has become a popular way […]
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Two REALLY good reasons to use FireFox as your web browser…
I know I keep banging on about this, but one of the easiest and cheapest ways to protect yourself from online scams and phishing is simple: Change your Web Browser! Here are two really good reasons why you should use FireFox to surf the web instead of the ubiquitous Internet Explorer. Firefox includes strict anti-phishing […]
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DNS (whassat?) it’s a great tool against Scammers!
The DNS Route to Scam Protection Online. When you type in ‘www.scammingsite.com’ on your browser, a lookup is performed to translate the domain name into a unique address (IP Address) that all networked computers understand and which contains the path to the right server. Good people like those at SEO reseller website are very good […]
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New Scam Email Indexing Method (again!)
It’s my third iteration on the same basic principle: take a carefully filtered and enhanced archive of 150,000 email messages and then sort, categorize and analyze them, then put them in a defanged, indexable/searchable list format so that people can browse them. The first was a program I wrote in perl back in 2004, it […]
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Dont try to scam Scamdex, Ok?
I give my cellphone number out to very few people. Friends, relatives, Scamdex-related business and the occasional on-line order, if they insist. So when I get a call, it’s normally someone I know personally or business. So I was surprised to get a call from an outfit called ‘Auction Profits LLC’ (http://www.auctionprofitsllc.com) , asking me […]
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Fighting the Credit Card Scammers (and the baddest countries!)
Fraudlabs are aimed at online retailers and they provide some useful services for checking that the credit card transaction you are about to approve looks ‘right’. Given a combination of IP address, shipping address and credit card identification, they will give you a clear description of why that transaction is not a good risk. In […]