Helpful Tips for Internet Businesses

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Comment by Sleepy AVON Lady Rachel Russell on March 14, 2009 at 4:11am

Comment by Lisa Simpkins on March 14, 2009 at 12:11am

I use Snopes for checking on scams,fraud,identity theft etc.

http://www.snopes.com/fraud/fraud.asp

Comment by EYES WIDE OPEN INTERNATIONAL on August 25, 2008 at 2:52pm

Thanks for posting the link to Ripoff Report Nancy...great connection to have!! Consumers Union is another resource that I use...here> http://www.consumersunion.org/
Consumer Reports> http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/index.htm

Comment by EYES WIDE OPEN INTERNATIONAL on August 24, 2008 at 4:02pm

Hi Nancy and thank you for the invitation. I hope to learn and bring something to this group in hopes of making our Internet free of scammers, hackers, and crooks which are becoming more organized and threatening year by year. Pleased to be here!! Ron G. Eyes Wide Open Int.

Comment by Rosemarie Florio on August 22, 2008 at 3:33pm

Hi Nancy,
Thanks for the invite!! Take care will talk soon. Rosemarie

Comment by Nancy Radlinger on August 22, 2008 at 3:03pm

WOW - thanks for sharing Gary - great things to know

I just want to let people know that I have had comments back from other sites thanking me for the post but also stating that that is one of the reasons that they don't buy on the internet. Having an online business, I do feel this is a problem that we need to address.
One note also, you have to be aware shopping at local business also - this happen to a g/f of mine and her husband.
He purchased at a local business and used his charge card as normal then my g/f noticed a couple months later that there were charges for subscriptions to porn sites on his card statement. Know that her husband would never do that, they called the police and after an investigation - they found out that when the clerk entered his info - he also took down the info (credit card number, expiration date and 3 digit code on back) and then he had used it to sign up for these sites. The clerk was arrested and it was found out later that this clerk was using all the credit cards that were being used for sales at the place he was working. So you have to be careful online and at your local business also.

Comment by Gary Rocha on August 22, 2008 at 2:44pm

Hi Nancy - Thanks for the invitation. On an average I have been getting about 2 phishing sites of PayPal. I forwarded to their Spoof address ... and they took over.

Never open a PayProcessor link from an email. Always type the processors site address to your browser.

Also avoid opening any link on your offline message from your chat programs. There's a backdoor virus that sneaks in using your name to sne messages to anyone that is on your contact list.

I had this happen to me this year and had to reformat my computer and reinstall everything in order to break the circuit.

Gary