08.30.07
Posted in True Wholesale Diamonds at 1:01 pm by admin
If you look on the internet and do a search for wholesale diamonds or discount diamonds you end up finding quite a lot of spam or websites hiding their own agenda within somewhat informative material. I began to pull my hair out trying to find a purely informative diamond site that had no alternative marketing agenda.
So what did I find out after searching through the first 10 pages of Google search results for diamonds?
I was able to find craigslist advertisements for some people who were recently engaged and now need to get rid of their diamond ring. This was helpful information but there was still a small problem. The guarantee that you are getting a legitimate quality diamond ring is sketchy at best. As far as you know the craigslist seller could have put a low grade diamond in the ring while claiming it is a certified quality diamond.
In order to get around a possible scam I filtered through to those rings that have a GIA certified slip with the diamond. There of course is still the possibility that a switch was made and they are just giving you the GIA certificate of the diamond they are now keeping for themselves.
The secret when buying diamonds from a regular Joe off of Craigslist
Then I ran across a policy that many legit diamond stores offer. The policy goes something like this, “You may return your ring at anytime for a ring of 20% or greater value.” This means you could potentially buy a GIA certified deeply discounted diamond ring along with keeping the previous owner’s receipt from the diamond store they bought it at and exchange it for a more expensive ring. That means you could buy a .75 karat diamond ring for $2,000 off what they paid for it and exchange it for a 1 Karat diamond solitaire ring probably around the cost of the .75 karat diamond ring. You can do this simply because you bought it from someone with an “I don’t want it anymore syndrome” attitude. They just had their engagement broken off and they don’t want the memory of, just being rejected, by a very expensive ring sitting on their dresser. If they can sell it to someone at a $2,000 loss they will do it.
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08.22.07
Posted in Traveling Magazine Sales, Traveling Sales Group at 3:04 pm by admin
An interview with a traveling magazine salesman
I ran into a magazine sales guy today at my apartment. He came by and knocked on the door and had a clever sales pitch. One of the pitches was that the money could be donated to a charity of my choice. They basically work in every possible angle to sale you a magazine. I was really interested in this group because an old friend had been in one of these groups a long time ago and said it was a drug and alcohol infested type of organization usually and that it was a terrible influence on the young kids who travel with these magazine sales companies.
What do you like most about the magazine sales group?
“Mainly traveling and seeing new places across the country. Not so much the money.”
What is the name of the magazine agency?
“I cannot tell you, they may track this information back to me.”
Do they provide alcohol or drugs and other perks?
“They do not provide drugs alcohol or parties at all.”
What are the ages of the sale people?
“Age range is 18 - 27″
What is the background of the sales people?
“Most have graduated highschool. Some are highschool drop outs.”
How long do the sales people do this for?
“Maximum about 4 years. I have been doing it only 4 months.”
What is your boss like?
“He has been doing it for 30 years and owns the business. He has 1 kid and is divorced. The business is with the BBB.”
How many are in the crew?
“There are 20 people in the crew and they drive two vans out of their hub hotel location in Lousiana each day.”
How much does your boss make?
“I have no idea how much he makes.”
What are the perks?
“No other perks besides the travel.”
Where do you stay?
“We stay in nice hotels throughout the country, 2 per room.”
Do they provide a script and can you make up your own script?
“They give a basic 5 step script but they want you to stick to the NCA contest, $1,000 to a positive career goal and a trip.”
Is the boss a demanding controlling sales manager?
“The boss tries to be upbeat and positive and they are not a scam operation.”
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08.06.07
Posted in How to remove the Smitfraud-C Virus, Smitfraud-C, Smitfraud-C Removal at 4:37 pm by admin
1. Download this file - Combofix
2. Double click combofix.exe & follow the prompts.
3. When finished, it shall produce a log for you. Post that log in your
reply to these instructions.
Note:
Do not mouseclick combofix’s window whilst it’s running. That may cause
it to stall.
After you have run combofix and have followed the instructions above, download this file to your desktop: Combofix script
Drag and drop this script file onto the Combofix application as the image shows you.
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08.05.07
Posted in How to remove the Smitfraud-C Virus, Smitfraud-C, Smitfraud-C Removal at 3:03 am by admin
The latest Smitfraud-C spyware virus issue has a new removal instructions
Follow the Vundofix at the bottom of this page to fix the issue
The latest variant of Smitfraud C may not change your screen saver or background but it will install some softwae that will cause webpages to randomly appear as you browse the web. Some of the pages are www.broadcaster.com and a winpcdoctor virus remover site. Several other virus removal webpages come up and some ask you to pay for their program to remove this spyware and virus trojan at an unrealistic price.
The spyware trojan virus basically holds your computer hostage with annoying pop ups until you pay to have it removed using their software.
Lots of the Removal tools out there for this are outdated and no longer work. Even the manual removal instructions available on the internet are no longer relevant to the latest variant.
These instructions work as of August 2007 in removing the Smitfraud-C Spyware program that has been lately propagated via spam email across the internet. Many of the spam mails are labeled postcard or someones name along with a pdf file.
Please download VundoFix.exe to your desktop.
- Double-click VundoFix.exe to run it.
- Click the Scan for Vundo button.
- Once it’s done scanning, click the Remove Vundo button.
- You will receive a prompt asking if you want to remove the files, click YES
- Once you click yes, your desktop will go blank as it starts removing Vundo.
- When completed, it will prompt that it will reboot your computer, click OK.
- Please post the contents of C:\vundofix.txt.
Note: It is possible that VundoFix encountered a file it could not remove. In this case, VundoFix will run on reboot, simply follow the above instructions starting from “Click the Scan for Vundo button.” when VundoFix appears at reboot.
Please also post a fresh HijackThis log. There may be some more left overs to clean up with HijackThis, but we can deal with that when you post a fresh log file.
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08.02.07
Posted in Digg, Digg Conspiracy at 1:58 pm by admin
Digg user makes $100,00 a year “digging” articles
To begin let me explain what Digg is
Some people are not familiar with Digg so I will do my best to explain. Digg is an online bookmarking site. Instead of bookmarking your site in Internet Explorer you actually go online to Digg.com or you have a button in Internet Explorer for Digg. By clicking on this button you are “digging” the webpage you are on or “adding” it to your favorites in the Digg.com system. As more people add it as their favorite it gets a higher ranking. It could eventually be “dug” so many times that it reaches one of the top articles of the day.
What is so great about being “dug” on digg.com
If a website makes it to the front page on Digg.com they will receive millions of visitors to their site for that day. Everyone knows visits mean money and so they could potentially make tens of thousands of dollars on this particular day. There are people out there who have several hundred digg accounts. They digg over 100 articles a day and get their clients up onto the top page. They charge anywhere from $2,000 - $3,000 to do this but it is well worth it to the internet entrepreneurs who make most of their money by selling their product online. Lets say 1,000,000 people view a site that paid a Digg extrepreneur $3,000. Chances are that 2% of the people viewing the article will click on a pay per click ad or buy something he is selling. The website owner stands to make $50,000 from that day alone. This is only a guess as to the money thath is available out there but there are people taking advantage of it and it is quite interesting to say the least.
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