1 month ago
nelson : Youtube MLM scams - Merlin's fascinating investigation into human desperation
Andy Baio : Merlin Mann on YouTube's "cash gifting" pyramid scheme subculture - learn more about Cash Duke's Cash Givanation System
Simon Willison : "THIS IS NOT MLM!!!" - An Appreciation - “THIS IS NOT MLM!!!”—An Appreciation. Merlin Mann explains his fascination with the “cash gifting” pyramid scams that keep cropping up on YouTube.
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3 month ago
nelson : Car warranty scam - Just got an aggressive junk phone call like this
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9 month ago
wearehugh : Attorney General Warns of Car Warranty Scams :: WRAL.com - i get these all the time, for 3 different cars -- 2 of which don't even exist anymore
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Richard Rutter : T-Mobile. Number One Scum. - Ben is understandably livid.
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12 month ago
nelson : Wanted: gullible lawyers - Amazing story of a scam; nice punchline at the end, too
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13 month ago
nelson : The great Iraq swindle - Awesomely angry bit of investigative journalism
Ethan Marcotte : The Great Iraq Swindle - When does it stop? #.
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13 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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13 month ago
joshua : The software awards scam - Yet another tale of SEO crap. Shocking.
43folders : The software awards scam « Successful Software - Five stars! Reminds me of the ubiquitous '90s "Cool Site of the Day!" awards.
Jeremy Zawodny : The software awards scam - The software awards scam: software awards or link scams?
nelson : Software awards scam - Guy makes a fake program, wins many 5 star awards
Eric Meyer : The software awards scam - 1. Submit a worthless "program" to download sites. 2. Get a bunch of 5-star ratings. 3. Profit!!! [via John] [via]
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14 month ago
nelson : Padding search stats - Outrageous; Microsoft is counting automated searches from a game towards their market share. Good luck with that, guys.
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15 month ago
nelson : SREA.OB chart - Latest email spam pumped stock. Why don't the people who trade this go to jail?
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15 month ago
nelson : PDF stock spam - International criminals are now using PDF attachments to pump stocks
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16 month ago
nelson : Domain name scams - Profile of a guy who makes money buying and selling names, including *.cm
adamrg : Kevin Ham domainer - 300,000 domains... that's an investment. but if 1500 per domain per month minimum is reasonable, that's a ton of money.
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32 month ago
erikbenson : A bunch of different confidence tricks - I never knew that con man was a reference to the confidence trick. Been watching a lot of Paul Newman movies lately with these tricks.
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34 month ago
gleuschk : is an ebay fraud seller free? | Ask MetaFilter - an incredible detective job by the MeFi crew, crushing an eBay scam artist like a tiny leetle bug
Rod Begbie : is an ebay fraud seller free? | Ask MetaFilter - This is a long MeFi thread, but worth reading. Summary: Someone posts to mefi asking if it's possible to catch an ebay scammer. Turns out said questioner *is* an eBay scammer. Collected MeFi masses turn up addresses, bio, photos, etc on scammer. Now [via] #
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