2 month ago
nelson : Diebold counts most of your votes - Voting machine glitch, coverup, etc
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4 month ago
nelson : Car warranty scam - Just got an aggressive junk phone call like this
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nelson : Market rate securities problems - Wall Street investment banks mislead their customers, again
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9 month ago
nelson : Kerviel speaks - Direct quotes from the SocGen trader saying there's no way they couldn't have known what he was doing
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12 month ago
nelson : FEMA fakes news - Poses its own employees as reporters on a press call
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12 month ago
nelson : TiVo + PayPerPost - Ah, conversational marketing
Andy Baio : TiVo uses PayPerPost for fake grassroots video campaign - later that day, they killed the program and are now trying to remove all the videos [via]
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14 month ago
nelson : Is Accoona a scam? - Underwriter just walked on their IPO. No one's heard of their search engine. Founder is a fraudster.
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14 month ago
Linkorama : Wikipedia Deanonymizer - Caltech graduate student Virgil Griffith just launched an unofficial Wikipedia search tool that threatens to lay bare the ego-editing and anonymous flacking on the site.
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17 month ago
jcgregorio : The Future of America Has Been Stolen - 10 Zen Monkeys (a webzine)
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17 month ago
nelson : AAPL stock scam - Maybe an honest mistake, or maybe someone manipulating the market
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20 month ago
nelson : Click fraud numbers - Google says only 0.02% of ad clicks are uncaught fraud
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20 month ago
nelson : Wikipedia scandal - Senior editor for Wikipedia lied about his credentials. Wales has hired him as a community manager, says he doesn't care about the deception.
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24 month ago
Andy Baio : Video: Hacking Democracy - HBO looks at voting machine irregularities
jimray : Hacking Democracy (HBO Special) - Google Video - Wow, the whole thing is on Google Video? Rad.
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25 month ago
Linkorama : Myspace Acquisition Fraud? - “The answer to how News Corp. was fortunate enough to buy one of the largest and most valuable Internet companies for pennies on the dollar is now clear,†said Myspace founder Brad Greenspan. “I expect as the authorities get their arms a
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25 month ago
Linkorama : Esther on Click fraud - So perhaps this story from Businessweek is just a sign of the market beginning to work: Advertisers will start to notice, their bosses and shareholders will start to complain, and marketers will get more specific in their contracts about what kinds of sit
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26 month ago
deusx : Congressional redistricting | How to rig an election | Economist.com - "In a normal democracy, voters choose their representatives. In America, it is rapidly becoming the other way around"
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29 month ago
jcgregorio : Rolling Stone : Was the 2004 Election Stolen? - Where is our so-called free press on this?
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29 month ago
Linkorama : The Black Hat Tax - Most consumer Internet sites today have an inherent tax of about 25% on them due to scamming, phishing, hacking, and government requests. That 25% is based on time and mind-share. And the 25% is only going to get worse. This is troubling.Most consumer Int
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32 month ago
Rod Begbie : SANS - Internet Storm Center - Phollow the Phlopping Phish - All the info on a remarkably well-done phishing scam. Even users trained not to fall for scams could fall for this. [via] #
kayodeok : Phollow the Phlopping Phish - we're going to phollow a phish and see where it takes us. Along the way, while we won't be getting down and dirty with bits and bytes, we will talk a little about scams, social engineering, and some of the plain old dumb things that companies do to make
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34 month ago
jimray : A Million Little Lies - The Smoking Gun thinks James Frey's 'A Million Little Pieces' was fabricated
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36 month ago
Simon Willison : Something Rotten in AdSense - Click fraud is a nasty problem.
kayodeok : Something Rotten in AdSense - Still, I don't think Google has a choice: I predict that you'll see a massive expulsion of smaller AdSense sites by Google, and it better happen soon, or AdSense will ruin Google's reputation among advertisers, something which could be deadly
Jeremy Zawodny : Something Rotten in AdSense - Something Rotten in AdSense: Joel looks at click fraud
François Nonnenmacher : Something Rotten in AdSense
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36 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : Google spam suite primer - Google spam suite primer: Google provides a full suite of services for the entry-level blog spammer.
kayodeok : Google spam suite primer - I will describe the Google elements that contribute to a spam farm in an attempt to create more understanding about how your content ends up where you may not want it
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37 month ago
Nelson Minar : Mass credit card fraud - Lots of people getting $9.99 and $24.99 charges on their cards
merlinmann : Digital Age Credit Card Fraud - Tons of fraudulent charges for fairly low amounts showing up. [via Nelson Minar]
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51 month ago
Andy Baio : Googling for credit card numbers - made possible by Google's number range operator [via] [via]
deusx : Google Search: visa 4356000000000000..4356999999999999 - Oh, shit. Credit card numbers anyone?
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