Archive for the 'Scams' Category

Winning Notification Scam Emails, Scam Phone Calls & More

Friday, November 21st, 2008

I’ve just received an email at the time of writing saying that I’ve won almost a million pounds. I’m receiving an average of 1 financial award notification every single day, all saying that I’ve won a fortune, inherited a fortune or that I’m about to receive a large amount of money for some other reason. […]

Web 2.0 Upgrade - Is this site a Scam?

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

Written on the 17th June 2008: 
An Internet site claims to be upgrading the entire Internet to Web 2.0 at the touch of a button. They use sentences like " […]

Get Paid To - Scams

Monday, May 26th, 2008

There's a number of paid to surf sites out there, they all promise to payout in return for watching hours and hours of advertisements as well as getting referrals. As well as pay to surf, some sites promise to pay you to click (paid to click), to register, to fill out surveys, to play games […]

I very much doubt if “The Secret Pays”

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

I'm very sceptical about a new money making scheme called, "The Secret Pays" as to me it looks like another pyramid scheme in a clever disguise. It seems to use products as an excuse to be legal as they admit that most people aren't interested in the actual products. If you want to take a […]

Premium SMS Scam - Charged For Spam SMS Service

Friday, March 21st, 2008

A few days ago I got a message on my mobile phone from Virgin Mobile (UK) saying that I was low on credit despite recently topping it up and not using it since.
I called Virgin who explained that a company called "2 ERGO" has been charging me for a premium SMS service at £1.50 […]

“Your Lucky List” Is Extremely Unlucky!

Sunday, March 16th, 2008

Does "Your Lucky List" Work?
Your lucky list is advertised as a unique list building system that's meant to build your list randomly on autopilot as well as using the standard referral system. Every week the random matrix is reshuffled and you are meant to take a new position on a membership ladder with varying […]

Is This The Most Unfriendly Traffic Exchange?

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

There are lots of good free Traffic Exchanges out there, they all allow you to surf other peoples sites, in exchange for other people surfing yours.
Traffic Mate 2 appears at first to be a reasonable traffic exchange with a very healthly sign up bonus of 20,000 free credits. The surf ratio is fairly avarage at […]

Warning MyWorldPlus.com

Friday, January 11th, 2008

Just thought I’d warn people about a very similar new pyramid scheme in disguise, virtually exactly like “Lawn Chair Millionaire” (please see my previous post), it’s http://www.MyWorldPlus.com but PLEASE AVOID!
You normally receive a spam email or one from a mailing list inviting you to visit with a special URL that offers you a FREE tour […]

Warning Lawn Chair Millionaire

Friday, January 11th, 2008

This scheme is apparently spreading across the Internet like wild fire. I learnt about it from an unsolicited spam Email. This is the first sign of a very dodgy company.
The scheme promises that you will make lots of money on the Internet by doing very little except paying a subscription.
You only earn money from the […]

Running Your Car On Water? It’s A Con, Isn’t It?

Friday, January 4th, 2008

The biggest rule of avoiding cons is “if it sounds too good to be true, then it probably is”.
Well this certainly sounds too good to be true! It claims to safely double your cars mileage per gallon for under $200 (Just over £100 - The Exchange rate is 1.97 at the time of writing) by […]