An interesting history of scams

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Daze of Wine and Roses Scam

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Supreme Court of Nigeria Scam (letter sent by e-mail or postal.)

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The Knockoff Pullover: The Fake Police Scam.

VISA - MASTERCARD SCAM: - "We need to credit your account."

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International Delight had been the cheaper brand for us when buying flavored coffee cream, our passing up the more expensive Coffee Mate. But we had become tired of International Delight's cap design. Delight's leaky caps (see above) makes our hands sticky when we pick up the bottle, leaves a ring on the counter, and then another ring on the shelf of the refrigerator, which has to be constantly cleaned (see below.) So we bought Coffee Mate and discovered its product is thicker, so we don't have to use as much, making the price per pour about the same. The messy goo is gone along with a potential hazard from germs. We again discover that really freedom comes from knowledge.

Would you buy this coffee creamer? . . . and other stuff. Are you tired of poor design or lousy customer service from American companies? Well so are we, experiencing hard-to-understand customer service agents for United Airlines in India and for AOL in Argentina. Sunlight Dishwasher liquid had problems with their product lumping in the bottle, a little hard to get the stuff out of that tiny hole in the lid. So we called them. The rep on the phone apologized and told us to hang in there, that they were having problems with the included water-spot remover. They made no offer to mail us a coupon when they had fixed the problem, leaving us . . . well, hanging. While McAfee's is the king of consumer online security, its new 2006 Internet Security Suite 8.0 gave us trouble and locked up our printer after an install. We even uninstalled and reinstalled the printer software, thinking its malfunctioning was a coincidence. Their software also didn't recognize we had old products on the computer, failing to upgrade our existing VirusScan and Firewall products from McAfee's 2005 editions, our continuing to see the annoying warning boxes on our screen telling us we needed to upgrade. After 12-hours, we finally uninstalled the 8.0 Internet Suite and our HP printer came to life again, along with our third-party defrag software that had also gone south. We were glad we hadn't mailed in the CD-ROMs for the old 2005 product, a required option for the $20 rebate, reinstalling the old software so we still had protection. We complained to the company via certified mail asking for our money back. We did finally receive a response and got help. But in the mean time, we had to journey off to an OfficeMax to buy the two 2006 McAfee products separately to avoid a similar problem. We saw a three-software McAfee package, but later discovered one of the software's offered was not an antiVirus program. So be aware if you run into simlar problems installing their new security software.

WARNING! If you receive the following message in your e-mail . . . "This message was sent by the Citi® Cards Email Verification Server to verify your email address. You must complete this process by clicking on the link below and entering in the small window your Citibank ATM full Card Number and Pin that you use on ATM. (Please make sure that pop-up windows are enabled in your Internet Browser, otherwise you will not be able to see the small window) This is done for your protection, . . . " . . . it's a SCAM! Report it to Citibank immediately using your Forward E-mail option button and send to the following e-mail address: <emailreport@citicorp.com>

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