Black Cat Enterprises Blog: It was bound to happen...ClickzVault.com A Scam

Black Cat Enterprises Blog: It was bound to happen...ClickzVault.com A Scam

Just another appearent scam that I have run into. Although I didn't (really) loose any money...it is possible that I could have if I would have invested money (for advertising) at this site. It is still our responcibility to try to check out a site before we do spend money. However, I also know that sometimes there just is no way to fully find out about a company.

A new face of scammers...

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Welcome To The Scam and Sham Blog Site

I would like to welcome everyone to my newest blog: Scam & Sham. Over the past few weeks, I have been thinking alot about this subject...and how it affects us all. In fact, I have been thinking about it so much, that I am in the process of writing a book on the subject. As I prepare for this adventure, I will be makeing some notes here about what I find; as well as some scams &/or shams that come my way. So let's get started, shall we?!

I had just checked one of my e-mail accounts on Yahoo.com today: the account that I use for my paid surveys activity. I had reviewed all of my e-mails in my Inbox, and was briefly reviewing the bulk junk e-mail box (just to make sure there were no important e-mails): when I noticed something particulary strange. The first two e-mail at the top of the list (listed by date: newest first): showed the received date at about 20 years in the future. I sat for a minute and wondered how they did this. Although this is not exactly a scam, it is definately a sham: as they trick the system somehow in showing a false received date; appearently to keep their message at the top of the list for the next 20 years. I of course, deleted it, along with the rest of the junk e-mail.

I wish now, that I would have kept those e-mails to see how they did it. Of course, this is probably going to be only the first of many examples of this type of fraud. As I get more of these, I will notate them, and perhaps publish them here. The most interesting thing, is how people are using technology to trick the current systems into making their messages stand out. Normally, I just delete these messages: as I usually get 100+ e-mails a day; and cannot afford to look at each of these unimportant one. The unfortunate thing is, that some of the important e-mails sometimes get mixed up with thie junk ones...so it take some care so as not to delete the e-mails I need to attend to.

In addition to the other information I will place on this blog: I will also be adding the e-mail addresses of the scammers, shammers, and spammers that I routinely get e-mails from. Be sure to add these to your black list/junk e-mail list; so you don't fall prey to their tactics. And if you have some legitimate addresses of these types: please be sure to add them here as well. By doing so, perhaps we can shame these people out of business. Or better yet, when these people harvest e-mails addresses from this site: then maybe their systems will be jammed with junk e-mail as well.