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Welcome to Shellgames

This is why we call this site "Shellgames." There are many, many people coming online even today, who have never been on the internet before. There always will be, at least for the foreseeable future. For you young children who are just now getting your own indepen- dent e-mail addresses, I do hope your parents or guar- dians are teaching you this. I hope you are asking questions about it before you act, be- cause spam and scams are a never ending problem. As long as there is money, there will be greed. You need to know this information and protect your- selves. If you did not search for something, if you did not do any

research about something, if you did not ask for something, and you receive information about it anyway, that is what we call "spam." The business world does not work like that, online or offline. Whoever sent you an e-mail as spam is only looking out for themselves, and they are looking to get something for nothing by cheating you. They are thieves, and they are playing a potentially deadly "shellgame" with you. I want to make one thing perfectly clear to everyone right now: Each and every single spam e-mail (scam-mail) that you get which promises you a job, or millions of dollars, for whatever reason, is a pure scam. There are no exceptions to this rule! Think

about it: When's the last time you made money at a job that you didn't ask about first? When's the last time you had millions of dollars delivered to your door- step? You cannot be lazy about this, or ask your government for any help. They are not interested in your online safety or your per- sonal welfare, and they will do nothing to help you. You must not make any rash decisions or let anyone rush you. One of the Cardinal Rules of Thumb for the internet is: "If it's spam, then it's a scam." Be careful, be vigilent, and protect yourself, because no one else is going to do it for you.

If You Have Been Scammed, Please Report it Immediately!

If you have been scammed, do not feel stupid or ashamed. It is not your fault. Each of us who run these websites have been there ourselves, and I will be the first to admit it. That is the very reason these sites exist in the first place, because we do not wish to see others get cheated or even killed. We have included some useful links below.

UNITED STATES
FTC toll free hotline: 877-FTC-HELP (877-382-4357)
FTC Online Complaint Form
Internet Fraud Complaint Center
Software Piracy
Non-emergency number for your local police department
Your local bank

CANADA
Canadian PhoneBusters Hotline: 888-495-8501
Competition Bureau Canada: 800-348-5358

UNITED KINGDOM
www.sfo.gov.uk

AUSTRALIA
www.afp.gov.au

NEW ZEALAND
www.police.govt.nz

- Thanks to Suspected Scammers.com

Scam Phone Numbers in the United
Kingdom (+44), from 419scam.org

Scam phone numbers in the United Kingdom (+44): Most "419" scams using +44 70xx numbers involve emails that are sent from Nigeria and other West African countries, not from the UK! If you see a +44 70xx number in a 419 scam email it usually means you're dealing with criminals based in Nigeria. UK phone numbers starting with 70 are "personal numbering" in the "Find me anywhere" range. Charges for calls to these numbers are not distance-dependent. They can cost as much as £0.50 (USD 0.90) per minute to call and can forward the call to virtually any phone number in the world. Forwarding numbers can be set up for free and completely anonymously via websites such as uknumbers.com. In most cases when you

Also See: Wikipedia's Personal Numbering article, about 070 scams. This is why you see so many +44-70xx telephone numbers that appear to be from the United Kingdom.

call one of these numbers, the phone that starts ringing will actually be a mobile phone somewhere in Nigeria, as the UK number has been programmed to auto-forward calls to another number. These +44 70xx numbers are used as a redirector service to obscure the fact that the person taking the call is not actually based in Europe. The UK number is used to lend credibility to the scam. Unfortunately the authorities in the UK do not seem to be taking action to shut down such phone numbers. You can use the PhonePayPlus number checker to find out what phone company the number is assigned to and the phone and email contact of the company where you can report the criminal abuse of their numbers. UK Phone Number Locator

Amazon.com Widgets

I'll bet you a copy Of Auto
Mass Traffic it WORKS!!

Okay, normally, whenever I get spammed to buy software, I always automatically assume that someone wants me to download a virus. Auto Mass Traffic (AMT) might as well be a virus. It's not malware, but reviews that I have done have found it to be worthless. I did a little research on AMT and found two reviews in particular that are not good at all, here and here. They make it sound so simple, it's actually an insult to your intelligence. It's just aimed at people who do not know what they are doing in order to get the traffic they need and want, or are too lazy to do it themselves. It is, of course, an affiliate Clickbank traffic product, and since website traffic is always such a hot commodity, the affilitates are promoting it in droves. Google is practically choking on it. Mo Latif is apparently some sort of "web traffic god," and produced some software that's supposed to get you tons of "free" targeted traffic, without using SEO techniques or Google Adwords. Rapid Mass Traffic became a Clickbank best seller, and now there's AMT. The trend I see in its reviews is that it's not a scam, but the ads are way more hyped up than they need to be. It's definitely more than just "configure, activate, and profit." It turns out that this software is worthless, because you don't need to buy it; it just uses what you can get for free anyway from Micro$oft. It is what is called a "URL scraper." What I loathe about all the sales pages is that they nag you to stay on them, offering $10 off, and then give you a final whimpering cry that "there is only one copy left." If you want good web traffic, just do it yourself for free. You don't need this BS.

Auto Mass Traffic Review

This is absolutely crazy but Latif is going to put his money where his mouth is. He’s willing to bet you a f.ree copy of Auto Mass Traffic that his BRAND NEW, never seen before software will work for you. [What I really don't like is when they use words like "f.ree" in an attempt to keep my spam filter from filtering it as spam. Mine did anyway.] Download it from here right now and put it to the test. [If you really want to find this software and actually buy it, you'll have to Google for it yourself. It's all over the place. I'm not an affiliate and I don't want to be one.] If it doesn’t get you an *ABSURD* amount of traffic after following the simple step by step instructions then he’ll give it to you for f.ree. Now that to me sounds like a no brainer. But you’ll need to do this right now, as there is a STRICT [number] of downloads allowed today. [There is never a limit. It will always be available. That's another thing I hate, is pressure to buy something.] So go here and put it to the test: <Removed> Regards, Felix Davidson

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