Is The Government’s Financial Bailout Going To Help You Get Out Of … – WebWire
Blaine, Washington – Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock or stranded on a deserted island for the last month, you’ve no doubt been hearing all the talk about the big financial bailout that the US Government is giving to the banking system and …
Facebook Users’ Holiday Spirit Target of New Koobface Variant, Reports … – TMCnet
GLENDALE, Calif., Dec 09, 2009 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Cybercriminals are capitalizing on the Christmas holiday in a new Facebook scam that renders users’ computers useless, reports PandaLabs, Panda Security’s malware analysis and detection …
Taking on Facebook – SantaCruz.com
Facebook denies any involvement in the scam: “The ads in question appeared in third-party applications, were not from Facebook and provided no benefit to Facebook,” said a spokeswoman. The problem is that Facebook allows Zynga players to play the …
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My Bloomin’ Onion Coupon Vanished
Aaron was so close to a free Outback Steakhouse Bloomin’ Onion appetizer he could practically feel the fried batter clogging up his arteries. He earned the coupon by logging onto Facebook and becoming a fan of the restaurant’s page , but found he couldn’t print it out after he viewed it. He writes: I wanted to ask whether you’ve got any customer service contact info for Outback Steakhouse. I’m having trouble with their recent promotion and I can’t get hold of anybody who can help me out
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Lee Declares All Facebook Contest Entrants Winners
Something appears to have gone wrong with a contest that Lee Jeans ran on Facebook, and the company was forced to change the rules partway through. However, instead of canceling the contest or changing the rules in their own favor, the change means that everyone who entered the contest before Wednesday, December 2, under the original rules, won automatically. Yay! For the company’s 120th anniversary, they held a drawing where 120 people would win a free pair of jeans for each day in December. Then the rules changed.
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Facebook’s Farmville hit by lawsuit – Stuff
The reputation of Farmville, one of the most popular applications on Facebook, has fallen into a ditch following the launch of a class action by some of its users over an alleged billing scam. The addictive farming application has amassed 60 million …
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Facebook’s Farmville loses its country glow – Sydney Morning Herald
The reputation of Farmville, one of the most popular applications on Facebook, has fallen into a ditch following the launch of a class action by some of its users over an alleged billing scam. The addictive farming application has amassed 60 million …
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Facebook’s Farmville loses its country glow – Brisbane Times
The reputation of Farmville, one of the most popular applications on Facebook, has fallen into a ditch following the launch of a class action by some of its users over an alleged billing scam. The addictive farming application has amassed 60 million …
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Video Professor Tries To Bully Washington Post, Fails – TechCrunch
… Video Professor Scam Video Professor was a side note in our original Scamville post, just one of a bunch of scams that were making their way into social games on Facebook and MySpace. But now we’re focused on them like a laser. Video Professor …
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We Give Cash: Reaching out to Their Customers Through Facebook – Earthtimes
WeGiveCash.com, in continuing to become a very convenient payday loan provider for their online market, has now included Facebook as one of their marketing tools to reach their goals of becoming a leader in the industry, and it has been showing …
Wife of former leader Stephane Dion lambastes Liberal party on … – Metronews.ca
MONTREAL – The outspoken wife of former Liberal leader Stephane Dion has some scathing criticism for the party and current leader Michael Ignatieff. Janine Krieber wrote on the popular social networking site Facebook that the party is in full …
Dave Savini – CBS 2 Chicago
Savini and Youngerman also received the 2005 Associated Press Newspaper Award for Investigative Reporting about the scam that ran in the Naperville Sun, CBS … Click here for a link to Savini’s Facebook profile .
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"Verify Your Account Info"? It’s Phishing – CBS News
If you have received an e-mail from the Internal Revenue Service or the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, chances are it was a phishing attempt. If you received e-mail from your bank, PayPal, or Facebook urging you to immediately verify …
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FAQ: Recognizing phishing e-mails – CNET News
If you have received an e-mail from the Internal Revenue Service or the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, chances are it was a phishing attempt. If you received e-mail from your bank, PayPal, or Facebook urging you to immediately verify …
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Scams target Facebook, Twitter users – Ball State Daily News
Social media Web sites like Facebook and Twitter began with less than 3 million users in their first years. Today, Facebook has more than 300 million users, and Twitter has more than 44.5 million users worldwide. Due to this growth, malware and virus …
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MasterCard expands ‘Priceless’ campaign for holidays, pairs with … – Washington Examiner
MasterCard is pushing its long-running “Priceless” campaign into the holiday realm this year with a Web site that helps people set up shopping lists for their Facebook friends and choose gifts based on offerings from Amazon.com. The “Priceless Gift …
TEDTalks : Clay Shirky: How cellphones, Twitter, Facebook can make history – Clay Shirky (2009)
While news from Iran streams to the world, Clay Shirky shows how Facebook, Twitter and TXTs help citizens in repressive regimes to report on real news, bypassing censors (however briefly). The end of top-down control of news is changing the nature of politics.
Financial crisis will hit mental health of the nation, warn Government … – Daily Telegraph
An in-depth and extensive investigation into mental health and wellbeing in Britain by the Government’s Foresight programme has made wide ranging recommendations for education, ministers, business, employers and individuals. The 400-page report …
