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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 effort a message from causal agency 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, thus
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 flourishing and widespread activities - online auctions.
The cheat sends you an email offering to purchase an item you're commercialism 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 in agreement cost (often thousands more).
The bidder asks you to refund the difference and support a percentage for your "trouble."
Of course the check is imitative
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 mercantilism
music and the black CD-ROMs folk ready-made on their computers, wait until everybody gets a DVD burner!
The average cost for an superior
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 purchasing 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 likewise 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 quelling 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! emphatically holds the upper hand.
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