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Auctions InformationA New Scam Hits The Web
by:
Jim Edwards
~ New Twist On An Old Scam ~
Virtually anyone with an email account eventually receives
a message running one of the oldest scams in the book.
Often referred to as the "Nigerian Letter," this scam
involves deed a message from being in a foreign
country claiming to need a way to get 21.5 million dollars
out of the country (the 1st country used in this scam was
Nigeria, thence the scam's name).
He knows that you "are a trustworthy individual" and if
you'll simply send him your bank account information he will
deposit the money in your account and give you 15% of the
deposit.
Of course, after you give up your banking information the
scammer empties YOUR account.
Well a new scam has spawned to take advantage of one of the
web's most eminent and widespread activities - online
auctions.
The beguiler sends you an email offering to purchase an item
you're commerce through an online auction or in the
classified section of your local paper.
They tell you a relative living in the area wish pick up
the goods, however, once
the check arrives, it's ready-made out
for much than the united
cost (often thousands more).
The bidder asks you to refund the difference and support a
percentage for your "trouble."
Of course the check is counterfeit and, if you refund the
difference, you can kiss your money goodbye.
Moral of the story: free money is only free for the person
who steals it from you!
~ The Coming Storm Over DVDs ~
If you thought Napster caused a stir over commercialism music and
the banned CD-ROMs folk ready-made on their computers, wait
until everybody gets a DVD burner!
The average cost for an fantabulous DVD burner has dropped
well below $400 and medium to low priced computers now
include DVD burners as standard equipment.
The only thing holding back the avalanche of DVD copying
seems to be the rather hefty cost of purchase
blank DVDs.
With an average cost of $1.50-2.00 each, blank DVDs cost
far much than blank CDs, which run about 20 cents each.
But, if you look back simply about 6 years, blank CDs used to cost
a dollar apiece, so it won't take long for the cost of
blank DVDs to drop.
When that cost drop makes move and every house with a
computer can as well duplicate full-length movies on DVD,
watch for one of the biggest upheavals in the history of
Hollywood.
It wish do the music industry's crushing on illegal
music sharing look as mild as a 5 minute "time out" in the
local pre-school class.
~ Yahoo! - Still King! ~
In a bid to capture even as much of the world's search engine
traffic, search giant Yahoo! recently purchased the web's
largest pay-per-click search engine, Overture.com.
In the process (and much importantly), since the
commissions from pay-per-click advertising with Overture
represent a major source of revenue for most of the other
major search engines, Yahoo! by all odds holds the upper
hand.
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