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		<title>Smith Johnson Canada Lottery Scam</title>
		<link>http://wafflesatnoon.com/2011/11/23/smith-johnson-canada-lottery-scam/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 09:05:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>waffles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the past few months (or even longer), an email has been floating around, claiming the recipient has won the Canadian Lottery, by means of an email address being selected from their java-based software.
Let&#8217;s first take a look at the letter itself, which came from &#8220;C.L.C. Board&#8221; with the subject &#8220;CONTACT Mr SMITH JOHNSON&#8221;
CANADA LOTTERY CORPORATION
 Ontario Lottery Corporation, Consumer Affairs
 70 Foster Drive, Suite 800, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, P6A 6V2
 Attention: The Email Account Holder!
 Congratulations!
 The Canada Lottery Corporation is proud to inform you that you have won USD$8l]0,000.00 (EIGHT HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLAR), why you have won? Your email address was among those chosen from our new Java-based software that randomly selects email addresses from the web from which winners are selected.
Your E-mail address is one of 200 lucky addresses that have won in this Promotion, I wish to congratulate you on your victory, you ...]]></description>
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		<title>5415307708 Phone Number Bugging You?</title>
		<link>http://wafflesatnoon.com/2011/11/18/5415307708-phone-number-bugging-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 23:09:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>waffles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is the phone number 541-530-7708 calling you and now you want to know who it is? We have the answer for you here at Waffles, and now you can rest easy knowing that it&#8217;s nothing but a pest that you can ignore. Read more for details:

Cruise/Travel Giveaway Telemarketer
A recent trend in telemarketing comes into play here, that of being compensated for filling out a survey. In the most common version coming from this number, people are asked to answer ten questions and will be rewarded with tickets to a cruise, perhaps to the Bahamas or a similar location. Sometimes they will make it sound like you&#8217;ve actually &#8220;won&#8221; a cruise and simply have to answer ten questions in order to collect your &#8220;winnings.&#8221;  There are lots of numbers jumping on this bandwagon, such as this one recently discussed here or this one that blew up phones around the country back ...]]></description>
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		<title>Scam List: Mom&#8217;s Trick to a Wrinkle Free Face</title>
		<link>http://wafflesatnoon.com/2011/11/18/scam-list-moms-trick-to-a-wrinkle-free-face/</link>
		<comments>http://wafflesatnoon.com/2011/11/18/scam-list-moms-trick-to-a-wrinkle-free-face/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 22:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>waffles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The affiliate marketers are on the prowl &#8211; flooding ad networks with &#8220;a mom&#8217;s trick&#8221; ads for snake oil, aka wrinkle cream.
Don&#8217;t fall for these sites.
Browse a few of them to see how they&#8217;re all using the same basic premise of a fake story of an ordinary mom who uses their two products to look younger. The names change, the products change, and the website&#8217;s willingness to admit the story is fake will vary as well.
If you Google the exact phrase &#8220;mom&#8217;s trick to a wrinkle free face&#8221; you&#8217;ll come up with tens of thousands of web pages. As of this writing, there are 41,200 of these sites. Many of those appear to have little or no traffic, perhaps having been abdandoned by the affiliate who created it once they realized the people selling them their affiliate package were scammers as well.
But below is a sampling of some of the ...]]></description>
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		<title>Work From Home on Google Affiliate Scam List</title>
		<link>http://wafflesatnoon.com/2011/11/14/work-from-home-on-google-affiliate-scam-list/</link>
		<comments>http://wafflesatnoon.com/2011/11/14/work-from-home-on-google-affiliate-scam-list/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 17:55:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>waffles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After ranting about Pulse360, Adblade, and MSNBC, I looked around to see just how much replication is going on with the current breed of affiliate &#8220;make money at home on Google&#8221; websites. As anticipated, it&#8217;s rampant. I went to consumerfinancereviews.com, which was the target of the MSNBC post, and Googled one of the comments to see how many websites contained that same text.
For my experiment, the comment I Googled reads, &#8220;The timing of this couldn&#8217;t be better, my wife and I are struggling too and this could be our answer.&#8221;
Over 5400 websites contain that same comment. 5400 websites? And most of them are similar to consumerfinancereviews.com. Below, I&#8217;ve compiled a short list of these clone sites as a small sampling of that 5400. Most of them use the same or slightly altered template as well as some sort of geo-tracking code to gather your location and state that the fictional person writing ...]]></description>
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		<title>The Anti-Scam Scam</title>
		<link>http://wafflesatnoon.com/2009/02/11/the-anti-scam-scam/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 23:46:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>waffles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most ingenious scams is to create an anti-scam website, and promote only &#8220;approved&#8221; products&#8230; which themselves are scams or of dubious credibility.
The concept isn&#8217;t new, and shouldn&#8217;t be surprising.

A scam is the use of deception, trickery, fraudulent behavior over an individual for financial gain. Dozens of identical fake blogs that only vary by name and photo, which promote essentially the same product &#8211; that&#8217;s a scam.
Taking a picture of a model, altering it to make her look thin, and trying to sell a product based on this make-believe weight loss &#8211; that&#8217;s definitely deceptive.
So in the same manner, a website that pretends to alert consumers to scams, only to direct them to dubious businesses themselves which run scams &#8211; that is a huge scam.
I happened across antiscams.info the other day, which is a very lame attempt to fool people into thinking it is some sort of objective ...]]></description>
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		<title>What is the Next Big Scam?</title>
		<link>http://wafflesatnoon.com/2009/02/08/what-is-the-next-big-scam/</link>
		<comments>http://wafflesatnoon.com/2009/02/08/what-is-the-next-big-scam/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 07:24:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>waffles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The net is rife with scams such as government grants, making money on Google, teeth whitening, and the Acai/Cleanse scams. There are also endless phony &#8220;review&#8221; sites for the products above. But that leads me to wonder, what will the next big scam be, and can we see signs of it already?
First of all, most of the people creating these sites are lazy. That&#8217;s right, I said LAZY. Otherwise, why else would there be dozens of &#8220;Kevin Hoeffer&#8221; clone sites with the same color scheme, same layout, same text, and same comments?

So it only figures that these scammers will start off using the same templates and url naming conventions to test out their newest, or revisited, scams.
In looking through the avalanche of fake blogs, I have happened across a few new ones out there. And that makes me wonder if we&#8217;ll start seeing any of these taking over as the ...]]></description>
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		<title>Scam Alert Part 4 &#8211; Teeth Whitening</title>
		<link>http://wafflesatnoon.com/2009/01/24/scam-alert-part-4-teeth-whitening/</link>
		<comments>http://wafflesatnoon.com/2009/01/24/scam-alert-part-4-teeth-whitening/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 06:56:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>waffles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s hard to believe the swamp into which I have waded. I was just a blogger who happened to get tired of seeing all of those phony &#8220;Kevin Hoeffer&#8221; ads. Now I&#8217;ve discovered yet another set of sites and product scams, all remarkably similar to the previously listed scams on this site. This one is for teeth whitening products. I only have a couple so far but I&#8217;m sure the list will grow quickly, just as the others have. But since they are now advertising, I thought it best to get the latest scam alert out there.
There are two versions of this scam. One that is hard to catch is the &#8220;fake reviews&#8221; type site, where they will review several products. Sometimes they only review their own, while other times they review theirs (always with the best ratings) alongside well-known brands, which they rate poorly.
The other version is the fake ...]]></description>
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		<title>Scam Alert Part 3 &#8211; Phony Wrinkle Blogs</title>
		<link>http://wafflesatnoon.com/2009/01/23/scam-alert-part-3/</link>
		<comments>http://wafflesatnoon.com/2009/01/23/scam-alert-part-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2009 06:26:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>waffles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Through my considerable efforts looking into the scams based around making money on Google, government grants, and the Acai weight loss products, I have found yet another group of websites that are advertising anti-aging products.
I&#8217;m not saying that all anti-aging products are scams. Far from it. Many are great, but if you are wondering about a site and see it on this list, I highly recommend that you look elsewhere.
How do I know these sites are scams? Keep reading.

I have not heard first-hand knowledge about these specific sites, but there are telling signs that only allow one conclusion. Consider the following:
• These sites ALL have the same general look and feel.
• Some of the comments on these sites are reused on the Acai weight loss scam pages!
• They also share the same look and feel with the Google, grants, and Acai scams.
• Many use the exact same photos, text, and/or ...]]></description>
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		<title>Spotting Scam Websites</title>
		<link>http://wafflesatnoon.com/2009/01/08/spotting-scam-websites/</link>
		<comments>http://wafflesatnoon.com/2009/01/08/spotting-scam-websites/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>waffles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Cyberworld Full of Fakes
I am almost ashamed to admit that at 40 years old I still maintain a Myspace page. Almost. But anyway, today I noticed a huge ad with a picture of a 20-something cheesy guy claiming to have made over $5000 a month posting links on Google.
It reminded me of those Don Lapre ads on TV back in the day&#8230; &#8220;I made a fortune placing tiny classified ads..&#8221; Of course the people bought that up hook, line, and sinker.. and never researched the scam artist that he was. But that was before the Internet was so prevalent. Nowadays you can find out if someone is the real deal almost instantly. Yet people still fall for the same things over and over.

Back to my cheesy Myspace ad. I clicked on the link, and it was the usual bait and switch site containing endless rambling and bragging, but no ...]]></description>
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