Wednesday, May 2, 2012

COMMISSION ADVISORY BEWARE OF FOREIGN CURRENCY TRADING FRAUDS ..

LINK ~ COMMISSION ADVISORY BEWARE OF FOREIGN CURRENCY TRADING FRAUDS ..

Dinar Site ~ Who's Who In Dinar Land ~ Dinar Gurus .. And Who's Iraqi Dinar Money?

Note: This website is also questionable. There are 3-4 (possibly more) sites that are "webhosted" or owned and operated by this same person. Sooo .. "People who live in glass houses should not throw stones".

Before Reserving Your Currency, Make Sure You Know Who's Who. Many a dinar guru are the same people using many different screen names. They are called sockpuppets and they will do and say anything to get your private information.

Be careful viewing and remember we do not know who this is .. "Iraqi Dinar Money" website.

Snip from the website "So you’ve heard that the Iraqi Dinar Money is going to revalue soon and you’re ready to buy. Chances are you have a dealer in mind, or have read positive comments from a website and would like more information? ..."

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Real Housewife Who Spun Web of Online Deception Says, 'I Never Thought I'd Become So Entangled in It' (Now this sounds familiar) ...

Bumped ..

Watch: FULL SHOW: Inside 'Catfish'

Watch: Catfish's Angela Wesselman Speaks Out

Watch: 'Catfish' Filmmakers Confront 'Megan'

Watch: Exclusive: Angela's World in 'Catfish'

October 8, 2010

Exclusive: 'Catfish's' Angela Wesselman Speaks Out

Housewife Who Spun Web of Online Deception Says, 'I Never Thought I'd Become So Entangled in It'

When the documentary-thriller "Catfish" opened in New York City to enthusiastic crowds, the movie's star was at home in Ishpeming, Mich., probably doing laundry.

Angela Wesselman, whose real identity is not revealed until the end of the movie, was a troubled housewife who spent the bulk of her days caring for two severely handicapped stepsons and building an elaborate web of online deception until it all spun out of control.

In an exclusive interview with ABC News' "20/20," Wesselman admitted that she's a mastermind of deception.

"A manipulator is what my husband calls me," she said. "But yeah, I manipulate and it's not right. ... I never thought I'd become so entangled in it."

Spoiler alert! All the twists and turns of the movie "Catfish" are revealed in this article.

Wesselman posed as an 8-year-old budding artist named Abby and a 19-year-old teenager named Megan, and lured Nev Schulman, a trusting 24-year-old New York City photographer, into a romantic relationship online.

In the film, Schulman's world comes crashing down when he learns that Megan, the girl of his dreams with whom he's shared the most intimate fantasies, does not exist. Megan and Abby are both characters created by Wesselman's imagination and brought to virtual life on Facebook.

"This woman is exceptional," said Schulman. "I'm totally fine admitting she just outsmarted me."

How Elaborate Cyber-Charade Began

Wesselman said her problems began when she looked for feedback on her artwork online, and was met with snide and stinging critiques. However, when she posed as an 8-year-old artist named Abby, people online -- namely 24-year-old photographer Nev Schulman -- were kind and accepting.

An online correspondence began and the charade escalated when Wesselman created the character of Abby's older sister.

"I really created [Megan] to make it more of an age appropriate conversation for [Schulman]," she said.

Megan became Schulman's obsession and the core of Wesselman's growing cast of characters. She created online profiles for at least 21 relatives and friends to round out Megan's social circle.

"It's not normal for just one person to be on Facebook ... with just one friend," she said of her logic. "You have to have other friends."

Wesselman Says She Was Diagnosed as Schizophrenic

To bring these personas to life, Angela assumed all of their identities. She posted messages on Facebook in the voice of Abby, Megan, their brother and friends, switching minute by minute.

Sunday, February 12, 2012

Badmouthing, Bad For Business? Badmouthing used as a defense mechanism, highlighting someone else’s flaws because it hides their own weaknesses

Internet Currency Forums are quite competitive. As with any business, watch out for backlash when badmouthing your competition. What goes around comes around, as the saying goes ...

February 13th, 2012

Badmouthing – Bad For Business?

Small businesses, thanks to basic human nature, tend to form communities. These are small, close-knit, and frequently very open in communication of anything that’s not directly advantageous to each other. This is true even for those that exist on the same level, competing against one another for the bigger market share of the market. So, to some small extent, it really isn’t all that surprising to learn that there are small companies out there that spend quite a bit of their marketing opportunities badmouthing the competition. This is rarely to the detriment of their promotions, of course, but it happens. The question is whether or not this sort of mentality actually puts them ahead, or if it just makes them look bad.

Like it or not, a business must accept that it will have competitors. This is a natural outcrop of the marketplace and something that no company can avoid. The business that spends most of its time badmouthing the competitors is going to find that it is giving itself a negative reputation.

They are akin to that kid in class that talks smack about everyone else behind their backs, but is in a position to allow him to avoid getting burned for his antics. Eventually, the other kids will stop talking to him either because they’re tired of what he’s doing or they’re afraid that he’ll expose negative traits they’d rather kept hidden. A small business might find itself being increasingly isolated from its community – and its customers – if it’s constantly bashing the competition.

Badmouthing people also tends to be used as a defense mechanism, highlighting someone else’s flaws because it hides their own weaknesses.

Read More Here

Friday, December 23, 2011

Report on Ponzi Schemes

December 19, 2011

CNBC's Scott Cohn reports on more than $1.5B in losses as a result of Utah ponzi schemes.

Link ~ Utah: Welcome to Ponziland! - CNBC

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Cyber attacks could wreck world oil supply

December 08, 2011

Cyber attacks could wreck world oil supply

Doha, Hackers are bombarding the world's computer controlled energy sector, conducting industrial espionage and threatening potential global havoc through oil supply disruption.

Oil company executives warned that attacks were becoming more frequent and more carefully planned.

"If anybody gets into the area where you can control opening and closing of valves, or release valves, you can imagine what happens," said Ludolf Luehmann, an IT manager at Shell Europe's biggest company .

"It will cost lives and it will cost production, it will cost money, cause fires and cause loss of containment, environmental damage - huge, huge damage," he told the World Petroleum Congress in Doha.

Continues @ read more ..

Thursday, December 1, 2011

Cyber Security Bill Approved by House Panel

December 1, 2011

Cyber Security bill approved by House panel

A bill to let U.S. spy agencies share intelligence on cyber threats with private companies was backed by a House of Representatives intelligence panel on Thursday.

In a 17-1 vote, the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence approved the legislation that would expand a pilot Pentagon program for sharing classified and sensitive threat information with defense contractors and their Internet service providers.

Under the measure, a longer list of companies would be eligible for access to classified data from the National Security Agency and other agencies.

The bill was amended to expand privacy protections for data that companies give the government, including, potentially, data that Internet providers give about their customers. That data could be used only for cyber or national security, according to the amendment.

Some critics have worried that this type of sharing arrangement amounts to government surveillance of private data.

The government would also be barred from searching collected data except to secure cyber networks from attack.