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Have you ever wondered how URL shortening websites like TinyURL, bit.ly and is.gd make money? Me too.
There’s an enlightening conversation taking place on Hacker News about just that subject. The short is, they don’t make any money.
They don’t. To be honest the majority of url shorteners don’t make any money at all. I [...]
NBCPhiladelphia.com:
Stacey Pace runs a small florist in New Castle, Delaware. So small that her office is her kitchen and she works from a laptop.
“I got this e-mail directly to my business e-mail address from a John Larry inquiring about Eureka Tents,” Pace told NBC 10. She returned the e-mail explaining she is a florist and [...]
Wallet Pop:
1. Phishing scams related to the financial crisis
According to the Federal Trade Commission, there is a new round of email scams out there that are tied to the financial crisis. Many of these emails “phish” for personal information — your Social Security number, account numbers, passwords, etc. The scammer then uses that info to [...]
Detroit Free Press:
Chris Hart of Eastpointe enjoyed a romantic Sweetest Day dinner with her boyfriend at an Auburn Hills restaurant without worries about driving home after drinking.
When it was time to call it a night, a chauffeur for the Designate, a Birmingham-based designated driver service, safely drove the pair back to Macomb County inside Hart’s [...]
Reuters:
As music retailers struggle to stay in business, a Los Angeles firm is doing nicely targeting a demographic that gets bigger every year — prisoners.
More than 2.3 million people were locked up in federal, state or local systems at midyear 2007, according to the U.S. Dept. of Justice, and they want their Michael Jackson and [...]
Steve Strauss for USA TODAY:
It never ceases to amaze me both the number and variety of people who want to start their own business. I hear from everyone from would-be entrepreneurs in China, to desperate moms in the U.S., as well as college kids and, yes, prisoners.
But this was the first time I have heard [...]
Niagra Falls Review:
When the mob takes you for a ride, don’t expect to be home any time soon.
When Michael Rizzo, founder of Mob Tours, takes you for a ride, it takes about 90 minutes and some of the highlights along the way include former hideouts, hangouts and homes of Niagara Falls, N.Y.’s best-known criminals.
Some of [...]
ABC7.com:
Air conditioning unit thefts are heating up. From January to June, 71 AC units have been stolen in Cape Coral alone. But ABC7 found a North Fort Myers inventor who may have the answer.
At the Broadway Community Church, a thief ripped apart one of the AC units and stole the metal inside.
But Scott Cromley is [...]
The Amesbury News:
A scam is a “trick†used by a criminal for financial gain and far too many continue to be successful, despite an increase in public awareness. Some scams net a perpetrator a small amount of money while others can ruin the lives of victims. Many of the scams we investigate today are twists [...]
PC World:
Internet auction fraud remains the most frequently reported online crime, but complaints over online purchases that are never delivered are on the rise, according to data released by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Internet Crime Complaint Center.
Auction fraud complaints made up about 45 percent of the 207,492 complaints received by the IC3 last [...]
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