Craigslist Cashier’s Check Scam – How to Spot and Avoid

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I use Craigslist all the time – usually it’s painless and I meet with the buyer in person and complete the transaction, but other times I get weird text messages from strangers who want to send me extra money in the form of a cashiers check to cover “shippers fees” or other ridiculous charges that … Read more

8 Tips To Hiring Your First Freelancer on UpWork.com (Updated 2023)

8 tips to hiring on upwork.com

If you or your business business needs additional help completing tasks, hiring a freelancer on Upwork is one of the best ways to free up your day to focus on the things that matter most. In this article we will cover 8 things that I’ve learned after hired over 15 different freelancers and have had … Read more

A first look at iOS 9 Beta – Photos and Features

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iOS 9 was released today, showing a brand new load of features such as Wallet, Battery Saver, and a ton of others. Check out these photos below to see the cool new features we checked out!  1: New wallpapers New wallpapers were released with iOS9 – including a really cool set of flowers What’s cool … Read more

“Grocery stores fear him” advertisement and other scams from Crisis Education LLC

crisis prevention LLC scam

If you’ve been on the internet recently you’ve probably seen the following ad plastered around your screen, showing a farmer in a red hat with the bold text “Grocery stores fear him!”. But what, really, could grocery stores hate so much about this guy? I decided to investigate for myself to see what was going on, … Read more

Google Analytics Darodar Forum Spam – What is it?

Recently, I’ve been keeping a sharp eye on some of my side projects that I just started working on, some of them have little to no content, so getting repeated referrals from a website is not only bizarre but curiously suspicious. I logged in yesterday to Google Analytics to find that two of my websites … Read more

Why You Should Really Use a .com TLD for your Website

When creating a website, there are a lot of options to choose from during the process. There are lots of domain name extensions out there as well. Recently, the folks over at ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) added a whole new batch of top-level domain names (TLDN’s) for customers and companies to … Read more