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Iphone and Facebook Scams

Image by ibeginz via Flickr OffferPal Media and SuperRewards and now Google, are powering scams with SMS-subscription offers that trick users into putting long term subscriptions on their mobile phones. Tap Defense, an iphone game created by TapJoy, contained multiple version of the SMS subscription scam. The SMS offers were being run by Offerpal. While on other platforms users are offered virtual currency in exchange for answering a quiz or some other seemingly harmless offer. Bu...

New Twitter Scam Spams Your Followers

Image via WikipediaA new worm that promises the gift of more followers is spreading quickly on Twitter. Unfortunately, the only thing that the sites involved seem to do is use your account to spam your followers. One of the sites involved asks for your Twitter (Twitter) username and password and appears to be associated with the Twitter account @GetFreeFollowers, which has been suspended by Twitter. Another that I came across may be far more damaging, as it appears to be spreading malware thr...

Apple busts 1000+ Iphone Apps

Image via CrunchBase 1,000 iPhone  applications are gone from the App store  amid allegations that the developer behind them planted positive reviews about its products. Molinker is the company is responsible for a vast number of applications which are mostly .99  many of them travel guides receiving rave reviews from users while being very poorly written. The authenticity of those reviews surfaced this weekend, when British blogger Glyn Evans of iphoneography wrote about the...

Do Not Call 6314032022

Image by KB35 via Flickr The latest holiday scam is the facebook spam going around to call this number for a $250 Best buy gift card. DO NOT CALL You call this number after getting the suspicious text or message and you hear this ramble about how to entertain an idiot. It registers your phone number for a pay per month service that sends you one (1) text per month with the same message you originally recieved and unless you request to be taken off the list or have it removed by your car...

Iphone Worm Released Just In Time For Holidays

Image by powerbooktrance via Flickr A couple of weeks ago, the first iPhone worm appeared, spreading on jailbroken devices with the SSH application installed (vulnerability being the fact that many users haven’t changed the default root password). As far as worms go, this one was quite benign, merely “rickrolling” users; i.e., changing the background image on the device to an image of Rick Astley. Now, according to early reports of strange activity by Dutch ISP XS4ALL, and later confi...

Beware Web Coupons

Carful the next time your purchasing something and see a  coupon offer appeared urging you to click for $10 off your next purchase. That one mouse click could send credit card information from a reputable Internet retailer to another company billing your card monthly for a useless "membership club". Members of Congress are now considering legislation that would crack down on what they call the unethical, aggressive sales tactics of some Internet marketing companies. Millions of Americans a...

Snapnames Admits Scamming

Image via CrunchBaseA class action lawsuit was filed on the 10th of november in Miami-Dade County Circuit Court on behalf of lead Plaintiff Carlos A. Cueto and others who participated in online auctions for domain names. In the lawsuit, Mr. Cueto alleges that an executive of the company conducting the auctions acted as a shill bidder to manipulate bids. The domain names were auctioned online by Oversee.Net, Inc. subsidiary SnapNames.Com, Inc. According to the class action complaint, a former ...

Mafia Wars CEO Says Its All About The Money

You will want to watch the video below. http://consumerist.com/5400720/mafia...s-from-day-one Heres whats interesting in the video ... Zynga CEO Mark Pincus says Quote: I did every horrible thing in the book to, just to get revenues right away. Quote: From the beginning, the profitability and viability of popular Facebook social networking games Mafia Wars and Farmville were predicated on the backs of scams, boasts Zynga CEO Mark Pincus in this video. "I did every horr...