trick http://www.webupon.com/tags/trick New posts about trick How to Spot Scam Advertisements http://www.webupon.com/Security/How-to-Spot-Scam-Advertisements.296351 We have all been exposed I have even seen a few on Triond itself! Have you ever clicked one? There are all kinds of goodies! Trojans, Spy ware, Key loggers, Virals and all kinds of other goodies! Personally I only like having Trojans because key loggers are just a nuisance! Oh, wait, I am fairly sure no one wants ANYTHING! So shall we avoid it then? Yes novel idea!

So let us state the obvious firstly! Now, you have been the 1,000,000th visitor more then 50 times on the same site? Scam? I think not! (note the deep sarcasm) There are currently no sites running a 1 millionth visitor contest so they are currently all scams! However I recently got hit by a you are the 9,999,999,999th visitor, does anyone else see the flaw in this advertisement? That would be 10 Trillion visits to that site, I can't be positive but I would say a safe guess could be that 10Trillion visits to separate sites haven't been made on the entire Internet! Just a thought!

Now there are the ads that promise you something and all you have to do is enter your E-mail address and wait. Well if you think long and hard (clearly I mean no more then 3 seconds) you will notice that what it promises is garbage and that each time you attempt one in a step of faith you receive no guide or what have you, AND you get a noticeably larger amount of spam! Coincidence? I think not!

This one should be extremely obvious to all, any ad in a different language, with typos, or obvious errors of any kind are to be completely disregarded! If you click on it anyways then your a fool but if you do and you notice the site has any flaws or looks unprofessional you have been had! This is not a good thing by anyone's standards, leave the site immediately at which point you have probably gotten a couple pornographic pop-ups!

Please make the Internet a better place to live and ignore idiots!

Thanks!

]]> Tue, 14 Oct 2008 02:57:58 PST Save Time Looking for Documents in the Internet http://www.webupon.com/Search-Engines/Save-Time-Looking-for-Documents-in-the-Internet.250001

Imagine you are looking for information, there are many stuffs to review. You have no time to waste in the Internet. Maybe, you are looking for documents for your work, homework or your doctoral thesis. There are documents that have many pages, how can you review too information using less time? I will share with you some tricks to look for information in the Internet:

Search engines

There are many search engines that you can use to look for documents in the Internet. The most known are Google, AlltheWeb, Yahoo and MSN. Use more than one search engine. Use more than one and less than five key words to search for the information you are looking for. Do not look more than the first ten pages that you found using the search engines. The next pages have repetitive information, and make you to waste time.

Pages found using search engines and HTML text documents

The most "saving-time" command that you need to know is the command FIND using edit menu or CTRL+ F, the quick form. This command works similar in web browsers like Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, and  Google Chrome. For example, if you write on the browser of your search engine the topic that you want to find and hit enter key, you can read a summary of every title. If you find some title worthy, open it up, hit command CTRL+ F, write a phrase or key words in the command browser. Also you can highlight, all the part in the document with that phrase or key words. Read the pieces of the documents near the highlighted words. In this way you can decide, if you continue reading or go to another document. You can use this method for documents in Microsoft Word, WordPerfect, Open-office, etc.

PDF documents

You can use the same method for PDF documents and use CTRL+ F command. If you use Adobe Reader to open a document is useful the command SHIFT+CTRL+F. It opens a bar that allows to see all the result of your search and easily navigate into the document. Also, if you have several PDF documents saved in your computer, you can review several documents at the same time.

These tips are applied to editable text documents. Documents saved like images are difficult to review quickly. If you did not find editable text documents with the information that you are looking for, then check non-editable text documents, read index, titles and references. In this way, you can evaluate quick any document. Sometimes there are important information in these documents.

I hope that these tips will be useful for you. And always remember that "Time is money"

]]> Thu, 11 Sep 2008 07:27:02 PST The Five Biggest Scams on the Internet http://www.webupon.com/Web-Talk/The-Five-Biggest-Scams-on-the-Internet.125286 Paid Surveys

Paid surveys may seem like a great way to make money, but most of them never pay or force you to make 75 dollars to earn a payout. You may think it'll be an easy 5 bucks, but for the time these surveys take, it is not worth it. Finding an actual job at minimum wage would actually pay much more.

Ringtone Services

These Websites or TV offers make it seem like you send them your phone number and they send you one or five free ringtones with no strings attached. For those who don't pay attention to the fine print this seems like a great deal, but they lock you up and charge somewhere between $10-15 a month for something around the area of 10 ringtone credits. The only way to cancel is to send an abstract message to a random phone number which you would have to look up. These offers lock you up and charge a lot of money every month for things you probably wouldn't want and are very tricky.

Free Item Offers

Websites like these show you a Wii or an Xbox 360 and say all you have to do is give us your email (so they can spam you with hundreds of emails for "free" things) and your home address so we know where to ship it to and you'll be the proud owner of a new video game system. Before they send your "free" gift you have to complete bronze, silver, or gold offers. These offers are normally subscription services which require a monthly fee, after subscribing to these they will send you your free gift, but by giving them your home address, they will give it to partnering companies and spam you through the mail and your email address constantly. If you do realize this after sending them your email, they will still spam you until you tell them not to. After having to complete all of these subscription offers your "free gift" isn't actually free.

Offer Redeeming Websites Like TikTikCash

Some of these sites where you complete offers, like the free gift ones as I mentioned above, actually do pay you and you can earn some actual money from them, like Gangster Greed, but for the most part they do not. They are similar to the paid survey sites, they have a high payout threshold that you will most likely never reach, require you to complete offers like the free ones where they will spam your email address (I once got 399 in one day), and even if you do reach that payout some don't even pay. They also make you have your offers approved, which means the company has to tell the redeeming site that you completed the offer, and this may take weeks. The only worthwhile way to make money on the internet is Gangster Greed, from my experience they actually pay, but for the most part these sites are terrible and don't work. Again, like the paid survey sites, these sites seem like you can make some pocket change, but a real job again is better.

Sites That Make You Pay Them To Access Get Rich Quick Schemes

Some sites say "We have a site that will pay you 25-75$ per survey you take and each survey takes 5-10 minutes!" These sites may sound good, but they make you pay them for the access to these sites, which usually either don't exist or never pay you. They may seem like you can make lots of money working off of the internet, but you can't and you have to give them your credit card, which is never good.

I hope that after reading this article no one is sucked in the way that a lot of helpless Americans are, but if you just read the fine print and don't make hasty decisions, you can never fall into these traps!

]]> Sat, 17 May 2008 08:38:28 PST The "Ripoff" Words http://www.webupon.com/Security/The-Ripoff-Words.94767 Have you ever been searching the Internet, and all of a sudden, an ad catches your eye? An add that claims without a doubt that you will be rich in ten minutes. These ads may be annoying, but let's face it, we fall for them every time! It's sure is hard to read, "Make 1400 dollars per week working an hour a day," and turn down the offer. The most maddening part of these offers is that they always start out being convincing, you read through the site for a long time, and finally, you realize it's way to good to be true.

Did you know that there is actually a much faster way to check and see if a site is really legitimate or not? I call them, "The Ripoff Words," and they can be seen anywhere. It all starts with an asterisk, placed beside a claim or an amount of money. This asterisk means that whatever claim is being made is either false or has a ridiculous catch to it. To find out what the catch is, simply scroll down to the bottom of the page. You should find an identical asterisk, and this time you will see very small words beside it. This is that catch. The gimmick. The trick. Whatever it should be called.

The identical "system" is used in a lot of T.V. commercials. Don't believe me? Turn on your T.V. right now and I bet that if you look to the bottom of the screen on almost every T.V. commercial, you will see very small words explaining: a) That the price listed is after applicable taxes, shipping and handling charges, as well as other expenses. b) That what is happening in the commercial is a dramatization and cannot or should not be done. c) That you must qualify and/or complete some type of survey or contract before you can participate in the specified offers.

Sometimes scamming websites and companies should be the least of your worries. There are lot's of people today that send emails to innocent people, trying to get money from them. These emails can be detected though. The person who is sending the email usually claims to be a foreigner who has a large sum of money that needs to be transferred. They usually claim in their emails that if you provide information about yourself, you will get a percentage of there money. What some people don't understand is that if you provide your personal information, they can sell the info to companies who want to scam you as well, and they can also steal your identity. Be very careful. If you receive one of these emails, block the sender, report the message if you feel that you are in danger or that you are being abused, and delete the message.

Why would companies want you to visit their website anyway, if they know only a small percentage of people will actually fall for their tricks? As mentioned above, they can sell any personal information that you give them, which brings them money. Even something as harmless as your email address can earn big bucks for big companies, because they can send you scams in the mail. Another reason that a lot of websites make the big money is that they advertise for other companies on their website. So how does it all end? The website makes money after you click on one of the other site's ads, and start the never ending cycle over again!

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