Avoid-Fraud.com

As you see I try to help people to fight, to discover and to avoid any king of fraud. I help people through this blog, but also through Yahoo Answers. It seems that many people are fooled by swindlers that post fake and fraudulent auctions to sites like Autotrader, Craigslist, Ebay and many more. How do they cheat people? Spoofing legit companies.

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How to trace the email sender?

Hard question for all that don’t know how to see the email headers. The purpose of this post is to show you and learn you what are the email headers. Email headers are lines that are attached to any email message you received and all email clients have them. For the public eye the headers are lines like: To, From, Date, and Subject but if you look close to most of the email clients you will find more details.

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Hi there,
In this category Latest scams I will show to you some of the newest texts used by scammers to stole your money or your identity. Today when I checked one of my e-mail I show this scam in my INBOX, so this mean that not all the fake e-mails you will receive will go into the junk/spam folder. So take a look at this text and try to understand that by responding to such e-mail will harm you.

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It seems that a new method for spam or e-mail marketing appeared last week. Searching the web for different keys I discovered one post on a very known forum for webmasters. There is a guy that sells a new yahoo software: YAHOO MASS MESSAGE SENDER. What this tool can do? It sends IM personally to a list.

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Nowadays many people want to work from home. Why? Because if you work from your house you have more spear time, you don’t pay the commute, and this job can be a second one or a part time job. On the web you can find many jobs through online sites. When you apply to a certain job, especially work based jobs, you need to pay attention because some of them might be scams. The purpose of this job scams is to steal your money or/and personal information.
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