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Facebook consists of a vast community of “friends” who are interconnected to one another in a multitude of ways.
The whole thing can be both overwhelming and amazing.
Throughout a typical Facebook session we can see people we don’t even know pop up out of the digital woodwork to comment on and “Like” things that we or our friends have posted.
Could you use an extra 10 million bucks? Yeah, me too.
Well there’s a very easy way to earn up to that amount, and you can do it quickly, in a 100% legal manner.
In fact, it’ll be the U.S. Government that’s paying you.
So what is this magic ticket to quickly becoming a multi-millionaire? [Read more…]
Do you own a blog or some other type of website?
If so, you should know that it’s a very dangerous practice to assign control of your domain name and/or website content to a third party.
If you allow someone else to take control of those vital assets, you just might have a very difficult time regaining control of them if your relationship with that person or company goes south.
In fact, it just might be impossible. [Read more…]
If you’ve been paying attention to the news of late, you probably know that the number of successful ransomware attacks on computers and mobile devices are increasing by the day.
Ransomware is a particularly insidious form of malware that encrypts all the files on your computer or mobile device, then holds your precious data hostage until you pony up and pay a monetary ransom to the hackers.
Once ransomware has locked up your machine, you’ll have no choice except to pay the ransom or you’ll have to say goodbye to your data forever. But… [Read more…]
Email scams have been around almost as long as email itself, and the problem seems to be getting worse instead of better.
Add in all the scams that are constantly making the rounds on social media and it’s easy to see that fraud is a major problem in today’s connected world.
There’s a rather tempting email and social media scam that pops up every now and then, and unfortunately it’s making the rounds again right now. [Read more…]