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New Gmail Scam making the rounds

New Gmail Scam making the rounds

By Dan Morrill on March 29, 2011

Again with the warnings: do not click on that link or reply to that email a new Gmail scam is making the rounds today. Don’t give out your e-mail information, including user name and password. The e-mail contains this text: We are shutting down some accounts due to congestion in our database system and your […]

Posted in Security | Tagged gmail, google, scam, Security | 1 Response

Protect Your Parents from Avis Budget: Direct Marketing Scumbags

Protect Your Parents from Avis Budget: Direct Marketing Scumbags

By Mark Suster on December 20, 2009

This has been a year where people got mad in mass at financial institution.  It’s hard not to when you think about the amount of money that flowed into their coffers and the size of expected bonuses this year – of all years.  Frankly, it disgusts me. But I’m not one to take on the […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship, Marketing | Tagged apollo management, avis, direct marketing, privacyguard, rip-off, scam, scumbag, trilegiant

No, You Should Not Embed Referral Links Into Your Facebook Post

By Dan Morrill on December 9, 2009

The audacity of people will always amaze me, and facebook just brings that home even more. You can’t trust your facebook friends sometimes, and here is why. Over the weekend I was quietly scanning through facebook and noticed that one of my facebook friends had posted a link to an offsite data storage system. This […]

Posted in Marketing | Tagged facebook, fake, IT Humor, posting, referral links, scam, scammy | 2 Responses

Scammers Jump on Google Wave Demand

Scammers Jump on Google Wave Demand

By Dan Morrill on October 1, 2009

In a not unsurprising turn, scammers have jumped on the demand for Google Wave invites to spread their latest round of fake A/V Software. This is not something that anyone in information security is going to be surprised by, a concurrent event that many people want to participate in or know of being used by […]

Posted in Security | Tagged FriendFeed, google wave, scam, Security

Screen Size: The Next Plan to Cripple Netbooks in Order to Protect a Dying Market

Screen Size: The Next Plan to Cripple Netbooks in Order to Protect a Dying Market

By Zoli Erdos on May 26, 2009

The proliferation of affordable netbooks is good for everyone – consumers, that is.  Computer manufacturers loath it (high volume, low margin business) and so does Microsoft: they can’t exactly sell $100+ worth of software on a $200 machine.  So they come up with all sorts of evil plans. First there was the Windows 7 plan: […]

Posted in Analysis | Tagged android, intel, linux, microsoft, monopoly, netbook, netbooks, operating system, os, price fixing, scam, web apps, windows, windows 7 | 1 Response

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