thanks for all of you who are helping others by informing and protecting from fraud.

in these economic times….we all need money…but honest money…and working for free was for Mother Teresa…who unfortunately is no longer with us…

thanks again.

julia

I agree with Joe both about changing your eddress and about Gmail’s good filtering.

You’d want to weigh the pain of notifying all desired contacts of a new eddress against the pain of continuing to delete all that annoying spam.

I’ve handled this problem in two ways (sorry, Mark):

(1) I put filters on my primary account. When something new comes in that the current filters didn’t catch, I make a new one — by sender or subject or content (takes a little experimenting) — and send it along with and all future junk like it straight to trash.

(2) I use one of my alternate eddresses at any site where there’s a question of it being mis-used. (With enough alternates, one could probably track good-guy and bad-guy sites, assuming it were worth the time and effort.) These accounts are visited only once in awhile, for a quick scan in the off chance of something useful being there, and to empty the trash. Yahoo and Hotmail are two providers who don’t seem to mind being used in this way.

Of course, you could always give out a fake email address, but that has good and bad ramifications of its own.

As to plagarism, I’d not considered running a DupePro search on my own stuff, but it’s always possible that others have reached similarly approached conclusions. My post was merely a quick-shot summary of personal experience in response to IveTriedThat’s call for said same. Over time, I’ve learned that those phone numbers provide “fig leaves of respectability” (this one, you’ll find if you seek) to which people fall victim without considering that the numbers themselves are usually integral to the scams.

As to tone, this is a creditable site but I’ve yet to read anything here in white-paper- or MBA-speak.

And, sincerely, thanks for the website feedback — a stupid error better-than-which-I-should’ve-known as I, too, have little sympathy for live ones nowhere near ready to so be.

Lastly, your comments have given me several new ideas for PLR content (with which I have no problem, for ghostwriting can pay the bills nicely); thank you.

Cheers.

P.S.: I’m not mad. Well, not ill-tempered, that is, but, as to alternate definitions of the term, I’d probably shouldn’t try to certify….

Time for me to be a “hardass”… In reply to Christines post, she mentions that she believes she’s a good writer, there’s a side of me that really doubts that; it gives me the perception that her entry was a “fill-in”, sorry…

From my understanding, apart from the paragraph that she talks about herself, she could replace the remainder by simply writing: “WHEN LOOKING AT ANY BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY, DO YOUR HOMEWORK”… I think that the info in her post is very “passé” and has already been said & discussed by numerous sites…

Lastly, after having read her post and seeing that she has a website named “Clarity Communications” made me chuckle, I don’t believe that clarity is her strong suite; frankly, in reading her post, I thought that it had been written by a 12 year old and definitely not by a semi-professional blogger…

OK, I’m ready for all replies!

P.S. Sorry if I get anyone mad; I just believe in saying it like it is… This website is too good to not do so & I’m sure one of its main purposes is telling it straight…

Utterly fantastic website. When your site pops up, I always read it first. Everyone in this (home-based) business ought to subscribe. Thank you for your service. You have rescued me several times.
How do I get away from the Nigerian/Benin scams. My mailbox is filled with them every day. I am tired of all the tripe. I figure I have won close to a billion dollars and of course never seen a time. I always delete them. I have been offered jobs. I have that figured out. The Western Union ones are a hoot. And don’t forget mystery shoppers. A friend got a check for $3,000 and was told to deposit it and keep some and write another check for the remainder. I told him to trash it.
Do you have any advice on how to get away from this and could you address it in a future post. Thanks for your great work in this area. You guys are great!!!

Jerry English