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Home Based Business Scams from Scambusters.org

Top 10 Work At Home and Home Based Business Scams and How to Avoid Them – Part 1 Home-based business and work-at-home opportunity scams rank very high on the list of the top types of Internet fraud....

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New ‘Sophisticated’ Trojan, Which Is Undetectable, Has Emptied Bank Accounts...

Hold onto your hats. A new version of the Zeus trojan, called Zeus3, has wreaked havoc on thousands of bank accounts worldwide, stealing just over $1 million. The best part? There’s pretty much no way...

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Rumors of Famous People Being Alive or Dead: Is Ken Lay Still Alive?

I teach a lot of ethics courses where we talk about Enron and Ken Lay.  A student recently posted a link in class which I found to be interesting.  If you click on that link, there is a whole website...

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Are You Monitoring Your Online Reputation?

Individuals and companies need to keep track of their online reputation. Do you know who is writing about you or your business? In my book, How to Reinvent Your Career, I mention the importance of...

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Are Products Really as Green as They Claim? 95% of Them Apparently are Not

via sinsofgreenwashing.org A survey from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) that was just released claims that 95% of those products that label themselves as green are misleading us.  Many are making...

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Social Networking Could Leave You Open to Attack: How to Protect Yourself

via google.com As the popularity of networking sites grows, so does the opportunity for social networkers to experience problems.  There are some safeguards people can put into place to protect...

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Loss Leaders and the Old Bait and Switch

via google.com Go Daddy is in the news right now due to their consideration of global expansion. One of the ways they have become so successful is that they utilized a marketing technique where they...

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College Students Beware of Financial Aid Scams

via google.com In the recent article 15 Common Financial Aid Scams to Watch Out For, the author points out that college students may be a vulnerable demographic.  So-called financial aid experts may...

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Young Adults and Unique Identity Theft Issues

via google.com As more people have embraced technology, more opportunities for identity theft have been created.  PC Magazine author Larry Seltzer interviewed a cyber-crimes expert and found that...

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What is Typosquatting? When Misspelling is an Expensive Mistake

Typosquatting occurs when a website is created to prey on people who may have inadvertently typed in the wrong web address.  An example would be arifrance instead of airfrance.  Typosquatting is also...

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