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Suspect Arrested in Lucasville Subway Robbery – WSAZ-TV
November 25th, 2009. Published under Political Scams. No Comments.
Suspect Arrested in Lucasville Subway Robbery WSAZ-TV I would hope the people of the world demand unaltered proof of this warming before allowing such an event to happen or the Cap and Trade tax to pass. … and more
Randy Moss Delivers Turkey Dinners to Local Families – WSAZ-TV
November 24th, 2009. Published under Political Scams. No Comments.
Randy Moss Delivers Turkey Dinners to Local Families WSAZ-TV I would hope the people of the world demand unaltered proof of this warming before allowing such an event to happen or the Cap and Trade tax to pass. … and more
Victim of Fatal Boyd County Crash Identified – WSAZ-TV
November 24th, 2009. Published under Political Scams. No Comments.
Victim of Fatal Boyd County Crash Identified WSAZ-TV I would hope the people of the world demand unaltered proof of this warming before allowing such an event to happen or the Cap and Trade tax to pass. … and more
What’s Wrong with this Pictrue
November 15th, 2009. Published under Tea Party. No Comments.
Ok.. The congress has decided Not to give those on Social Security a cost of living increase.. Intead they have decided to use the funds they say the people don’t need to fund a new system of electr
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The Security Risks Of Facebook Applications
November 3rd, 2009. Published under Fraud, Scams. No Comments.
I think we all know by now what the most popular social networking site on the Internet is. Twitter is quickly making it’s way to the top of the heap but for now Facebook is still king of the mountain. One of the more popular features that Facebook has added in the past couple of years is the ability to create an application for the people logged into Facebook to use. There have been many companies that made a lot of money off of this feature. Unfortunately there has also been a lot of nefarious characters that have exploited this feature as well. They too are making lots of money from it. I will go over some of the risks of Facebook applications and how to keep yourself safe – Keep Private Information Private One thing that Facebook pulls out of people is their private information. On any other site people would never give the amount of information that they seem give on the Facebook platform. Through most people’s profiles you can find out their first, last and maiden names. You can also find out where they live, where they went to school, and even worse most people will offer up the information of where they lived in the past. A lot of these answers are the answers to questions that you will fill out any kind of credit check online. This is perfect for anybody looking to exploit your credit history or steal your identity. Facebook applications, if you allow them, have access to this information as well. Once you give them permission they can get all of the information that is about you from your Facebook profile. If a person that has evil intentions makes a Facebook app, they can now target all of the people who have allowed the application in their Facebook ecosystem and target them for identity theft . Make sure that before you give an application access to all of your information that you check on the company who has made the app. It is best to Google them to see if they are legitimate or not. Facebook Hackers Facebook applications, for the most part, run in a sandbox that is provided by Facebook themselves. A sandbox is when you have the ability to use a language but certain features of the language that might cause security problems are stripped away. The sandbox that Facebook gives developers to make applications is pretty secure but there have been holes found. So not only can the hackers use an application that was built for malicious use intentionally, they can also find holes in preexisting applications and exploit them too. If you install an application and it is doing anything weird be very suspicious and uninstall it. In the world of the Internet being paranoid is a good thing! So I have gone over a couple of ways that Facebook applications can be used to exploit the average user. I do not want you to get the wrong idea, Facebook applications for the most part are safe. Just like anything else on the internet they can be exploited so it pays to be careful.
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How Do I Backup My New Windows 7 Computer?
November 1st, 2009. Published under Fraud. No Comments.
In this day and age people are relying more and more on their computers to be able to do their jobs but they are still not paying enough attention to backing them up. Yet every computer user’s worst fear is that something will mess their computer up and they will not be able to access their files. That is why cloud computing is perhaps becoming such an attractive offer. It allows you to back up your files on a remote server. This lessens the chances that all your data will be destroyed by a catastrophe as it won’t all be kept in the same one place. For other people local back up storage may be an alternative for them to consider. Backing Up With Windows 7 Windows 7 offers you several different ways to back up your files. I will go over a couple of them now – If you hit start and look to your right you will see the button that will lead to you to the control panel. Click on it and then look at the top where it says ‘System and Security’. Here you will see the option to back up your computer. Click on this and it will take you to the backup area of your computer. Once you are there you will see that two options are being given to you. The first option is to back up your computer, which is what you want. The second option is to set a restore point on your computer. (This is similar to backing up your computer but instead of just certain files this option actually creates an image of how your entire computer looks at that moment in time). If you subsequently had a problem you could then restore your computer back to how it was at the time you last created a restore point – a very useful feature but not what we are looking for right now. So now that we are again looking at the back up option lets go ahead and press ‘Set up backup’. Once you click that button it will ask you where you want to save your back up to. Pick the drive or Network that you want to save your file information to. After that, Windows will ask you if you want to choose exactly what is backed up or whether you would like windows to choose for you. It is up to you which option is best for you but just remember that if you let Windows pick the backup then it will skip formatted Fat files, and files that are in the “program files” folder. After Windows 7 asks you whether would you like to review the files or not, you can then watch as it starts to backup your files. When it finishes the backup the data will be stored in a backup folder and you will be able to access it anytime you need it. You can either restore all of the files that you backed up or you just a single file. Hopefully the short tutorial above will give you a good idea how to backup your computer using Windows 7 . The backup feature is a great way to feel secure about your data, knowing that it is safe. How Do I Backup My New Windows 7 Computer? is a post from: Scam Types dot Com Check out The Best Internet Security Programs Of 2009
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Fall Of The Republic: Millions Of People Worldwide Take The Red Pill – Prison Planet.com
October 30th, 2009. Published under Political Scams. No Comments.
Prison Planet.com Fall Of The Republic: Millions Of People Worldwide Take The Red Pill Prison Planet.com Fall Of The Republic will be devastating for the globalists and their agenda to impose a new world economic order and the cap and trade scam , …
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Halloween (All Hallows Eve) – Trick Or Scam?
October 15th, 2009. Published under Fraud, Scams. No Comments.
Later in this article I will state why I think Halloween is a scam. Firstly though, here is what Halloween is all about – A BRIEF HISTORY OF HALLOWEEN Around 2,000 years ago the people of Ireland, then known as the Celts, celebrated their new year on November the first. This date signified the beginning of winter, a time when mortality rates were much higher, due to the cold and dark associated with the following few months. Therefore, the Celts believed that on the night before, October 31st, there was a link between the worlds of the living and the dead. On this evening, they thought that the ghosts and spirits of the dead would return for a night, intent on damaging crops and causing great mischief for those they left behind. To this end, they celebrated the night with a festival known as Samhain which was a time for Druids and priests to make predictions about the coming year. Furthermore, the Celtic people would wear costumes made from animal skulls and skins, and would sacrifice animals and crops to their deities on huge bonfires. In later years, the Celts became integrated with their Roman conquerors and there was a mixing of their respective cultures, beliefs and festivals. The Romans honoured Pomona, goddess of trees and fruit. Her symbol, an apple, became associated with Samhain and may explain why ‘apple bobbing’ is still popular on Halloween to this day. Later still, Pope Boniface IV attempted to hijack Samhain for the Church. This he did by assigning All Saint’s Day to November 1st. The olde English translation of All Saint’s Day was ‘Alholowmesse’ which later evolved into ‘All Hallows’. Therefore Samhain, the night before, became known as All Hallows Eve. I believe the majority of Americans still use this term, though in Britain the phrase further evolved until October 31st became known as Halloween. MODERN HALLOWEEN COSTUME A large part of modern Halloween celebrations involves dressing up in costumes, much like the original Celts. However, the nature of the attire has changed somewhat. Instead of animal skins, people are far more likely to be seen dressed as ghosts, skeletons, vampires or even popular television characters. (Staggeringly, the winner of the best Halloween outfit at my kids’ school last year went at Snow White!!). HALLOWEEN GAMES Bobbing for apples has already been mentioned but it is not the only game that is based on the early celebrations. Another game often played is divination where a blindfolded child has to choose a piece of paper upon which is written a prophecy. By making the choice themselves, it is said that the prophecy will come true for them during the course of the following year. Another game that is well known is trick or treat. This is probably the main point of interest for children at Halloween, as they not only get to dress up, but they also go knocking on people’s doors, asking for treats. If a treat is not forthcoming, then a trick will be played which will often involve throwing eggs at windows for example. PUMPKINS The pumpkin is itself a part of Irish tradition, though not originally part of the Samhain festival. Whilst emptying a pumpkin and placing a light inside to turn it into a lantern was begun by the Irish, the carving of faces onto pumpkins actually originated in America where crops grew to a much larger size. WHY DO I THINK HALLOWEEN IS A SCAM? At the beginning of the article I stated that I believe Halloween is a scam. Why do I think that? Well, it has nothing to do with occultism, something that ‘Devil’s night’ has become associated with in recent years. That is because Halloween, as you now hopefully know, was never a Christian festival in the first place. Instead, my belief that Halloween is a scam is to do with the commercialism of the event. Samhain began as a festival, borne on the fears of those who lived at the time, who did not fully understand or comprehend the world they lived in. Two millenniums later and modern man has a good grasp of science, adequate heating (in the majority of countries), crops tend not to fail and, for the most part, people do not believe in mischief-making ghosts and spirits coming back to play havok on October 31st. Why then, do we still recognise and celebrate Halloween? Simply, because clever marketing tactics are employed by retail companies looking to turn a profit, and here’s how – Overpriced pumpkins Overpriced and flimsy costumes, unlikely to be re-usable the following year Increased sales of sweets and other gifts to be handed to trick or treaters Associated sales of plastic teeth, ambient music collections and other worthless rubbish Oh, and don’t forget that dentists see an upturn in business after the kids have eaten all the sweets they receive too CONCLUSION Halloween can be great fun, especially children who come home at the end of the evening with a huge amount of sweets. Conversely, it can also be a huge annoyance. I know personally that after the 50th knock on my door it starts to test my patience. Additionally, some may either live in fear of Halloween. I know some elderly people in my area who feel quite intimidated by elder children who levy all kinds of threats if sweets or money are not given to them. Ultimately, Halloween in this day and age bears little to no resemblance to the original festival of Samhain. Verdict : Halloween has become a RETAIL SCAM, designed to extract money from those who probably have no idea what they are commemorating in the first place.
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Why Aren’t People Buying?
October 11th, 2009. Published under Economic News, Unemployment. No Comments.
We are in a depression, probably one that will out-rival the last on of 1929. Unemployment is at its highest, some say around 50% when you count the people no longer on unemployment, small business owners not making enough to pay themselves a paycheck . . . let alone their bills, and recently graduated students
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How Do I Block Pop-Up Ads?
October 3rd, 2009. Published under Fraud, Scams. No Comments.
It is certain that all of us come across popup windows once in a while we are surfing on the internet. It feels really annoying when something stupid interrupts your endeavor appearing from nowhere. These are called Pop-Up ads. The specialty of these ads is that you need to manually click on them to close each. Pop-up ads need to be avoided and blocked to all extents possible because many scammers try to invade in to your personal details like passwords, credit card details and bank account details using these pop-up ads. Thus, a pop-up blocker becomes inevitable and highly indispensable. WHAT IS A POP-UP BLOCKER? A pop-up blocker is a program that stops these unwanted ads to come up during your browsing. The pop-up blocker is installed in the web browser . Most browser packages have them pre-installed and those not having them can be upgraded by downloading a pop-up blocker of your choice from the free software sites. Pop-up blocker not only prevents these annoying ads to opening in a new window but even protects you from a possible identity theft and personal information theft. Pop-up blockers have additional features for the people who want to view the pop-up ads of particular sites. For this they need to enable the view pop-up ads for that particular site. Many types of pop-up blockers with unique features are available online. You can buy as per your needs. However, some of the most basic types of pop-up blockers are free and can be downloaded from any of the popular sites. An additional advantage of using pop-up blockers is that you can prevent your computer from becoming slow or being infected from malware , spyware or any virus. This prevents your pc from getting slow. Choose an effective pop-up blocker as soon as possible and get rid of unwanted content to make your browsing experience delightful.
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The Manifestation of Psychological Recession in the Work Environment
September 22nd, 2009. Published under Economic News. No Comments.
For all the Harry Potter fans out there, lets just say that Recession is the R word that ’should not be named’ at the work place because it somehow manages to manifest itself into the brains of the people in the work force. With the downturn of the world economy, negative implications come to play
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pose these questions to every politician
September 20th, 2009. Published under Tea Party. No Comments.
If healthcare is socialized, should People have to pay for smokers, drinkers, over-eaters or anyone who does something possibly unhealthy? Who decides? Will those things become illegal or overtaxed (s
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How To Avoid Gift Card Scams
September 18th, 2009. Published under Fraud, Scams. No Comments.
When you’re browsing around Craigslist and are looking for giftcards that other people don’t want, you’re probably thinking to yourself: What steps can I take to avoid being scammed? Most people initially think of meeting up with the person and then calling the number on the back of the card to check the balance. That’s probably the most common thinking one can think of. However, scammers these days are smarter than that. There is indeed a way to use the balance before selling it off to another person. The seller might make a transaction online just minutes before meeting up with you, and when you meet up and check the balance via telephone, the automated machine will read the balance before the transaction. Most people would be satisfied with this and proceed on with the deal. However, you should be wiser than that. THIS IS HOW YOU AVOID A GIFT CARD SCAM Firstly, when you meet up with the seller, always try to meet up at the place where the gift card is usable. There, you should ask him to get you the item you want (at the same price lsited on the gift card), and pay him afterwards. Even if you want to, you can still return the item later for store credit. This way, you have something that’s more tangible than just a card in your hands. If this method doesn’t click with you, then simply check the back of the card. If the pin is scratched off, then don’t buy because there is a greater chance that the card has already been used. However, even if the pin hasn’t been scratched off yet, there are ways to use it. In addition, to avoid scammers, make sure you keep your eyes on the gift card at all times, because some people will try to switch the cards when you’re not looking. Lastly, if your intuition tells you that there’s something sketchy about the seller, then don’t buy the gift card . Some of the warning signs you may see are that he will call you from a private number, only call you on your number, but won’t give you his, or that he will want to meet with you at random places.
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