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IRS Renews Email Scam Warning

Following a recent increase in scam e-mails, the Internal Revenue Service is reminding taxpayers to be on the lookout for bogus e-mails claiming to be from the tax agency.
The IRS saw an increase in complaints in recent weeks about these e-mails, which are designed to trick the recipients into disclosing personal and financial information […]

Offers Too Good To Be True

Have you ever encountered an offer too good to be true and asked yourself how someone could pull it off? I asked myself that same question about 18 months ago when I visited Mixitforme.com and purchased a new 20GB iPod color for $150. When I first saw the deal I thought to myself, […]

Justice is Not Dead - Yet

It just goes to show you: if you’re the head of the nation’s 7th largest company and your company is labeled as the biggest fraud scandal ever with over $60 BILLION lost and you try and plead ignorance, the good people of America are not going to listen to your crap.
If you haven’t heard already, […]

Phishing and Pharming Presentation

As part of my Accounting Fraud final I created a 30-45 min presentation on Phishing and Pharming including how to detect it, how much harm it does, and how to prevent from being scammed. I thought I’d throw it up here just in case someone here wanted to watch it or show some friends who […]

12 Daily Pro Members Now Allowed to Chargeback “Investments”

Two weeks ago CPA Thomas Lennon, the court-appointed receiver, was warning all investors to cut out the charge backs. In his first communication since taking over, Lennon wrote, “The Permanent Injunction has the effect of freezing those assets and prohibiting anyone, including investors, from attempting to obtain those assets.”
Lennon contended the court order is “extremely […]