Tag: fraud
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May 26, 2007 07:17 PM EDT --
Some of the gossip around gather has been about who is masquerading as whom, which identity is actually an alter of which other gather member. This whole idea has always made me feel a bit queasy. . . .
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October 10, 2008 08:38 AM EDT --
STAY AWAY FROM THIS WEBSITE!!!
I worked two long weeks at writing reviews and one of the members reported me for not having original content. The funny and fishy part is that it was time for payout . . .
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February 11, 2009 05:15 PM EST --
So, just when I think I'm done making all my phone calls, cancelling all the accounts this imbecile set up, etc, I get a big box in the mail today from Gevalia. Yep... a big 12 cup coffee maker . . .
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February 09, 2009 01:12 PM EST --
I'm so freaked out right now. Someone got ahold of my credit card number and started using it to place phone orders. Thank GOD we caught it early as the charges that were approved are . . .
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October 02, 2009 06:14 PM EDT --
This morning started off like any other. Before the kids and I left the house to run our errands, I sat down to check my e-mail like I do each and every morning. I noticed that I had . . .
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March 02, 2008 02:40 AM EST --
My husband and I, and two other families in our neighborhood were defrauded by a local contractor. I want others to know what happened to us, so they can avoid the same traps. If you've been . . .
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July 14, 2006 05:23 PM EDT --
©This article copyright Sean-Paul Kelley
Since the war started we've been repeatedly told that we're building Iraqi schools, healthcare centers, and my personal favorite: turning the electricity . . .
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August 27, 2009 10:04 AM EDT --
If you use Bank of America and get online messages, be aware that an unsavory person or persons are sending out BOGUS messages for you to UPDATE your info. Thank goodness I have Firefox! it told me the . . .
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March 10, 2008 02:13 AM EDT --
In Part Two , I described how we started to fight back after losing $15,000 on our home remodeling project. We decided it was time to find a way to make some progress rather than sitting around watching . . .
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December 12, 2007 12:59 PM EST --
I received an email today from security@wachovia which looked very authentic. It read that I had been selected to complete a secured survey to be used by their institution, offering me $25.00 . . .
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September 12, 2007 02:22 PM EDT --
Today I got the following message in my Gather-Mail. It a scam that is ancient. it goes back tot old free-net days prior to the Ineternet! Please join me in telling the "powers-that-be" here . . .
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May 07, 2008 07:29 AM EDT --
got this in an e-mail and figured I should share...
Be sure to read Scene 3
SCENE 1.
This is a new one.
People sure stay busy trying to cheat us, don't . . .
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July 09, 2008 05:48 PM EDT --
Scammers Will Stop at Nothing - Wow!
by Marilyn Mackenzie
I know, I know...I shouldn't read the emails.
But you do have to shake your head at this one.
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August 14, 2008 12:42 PM EDT --
I have been on Gather for over a year now. I have made lots of friends and enjoy reading their posts, and viewing their photos. I see often that people are posting news articles . . .
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February 10, 2009 10:25 PM EST --
Well, not my card, but my card number, that is...
So, I'm calling all the places that had made charges on my card, cancelling the accounts, getting the refunds, etc. One place I called was . . .
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March 31, 2009 03:37 PM EDT --
I just had a friend of mine ask me why I had 2 Myspace pages. I don't! Then he told me to search myself by typing in Juleybean (my nickname) in the friend search. When I did . . .
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April 01, 2009 11:42 AM EDT --
Yesterday I posted an article after I found out through a friend of mine that someone was pretending to be me on Myspace.
Someone is pretending to me be on Myspace!
I changed my page to . . .
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November 29, 2009 12:25 AM EST --
Some snippets from the article with the title above:
With the start of the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen only two weeks away, pressure is . . .
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January 22, 2009 06:28 PM EST --
I just recieved a letter in the mail. It did not have a return address or anything. Reading this letter I got excited. You make booklets and send them for a company at $10 a piece. It said you could make . . .
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July 18, 2008 03:09 PM EDT --
Well, I have been using Ebay to both buy & sell for almost 10 years now. It has only been in the last year or so that I have had any problems.
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