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Some of them are actually scams, designed to steal your identity, says the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority. In one case FINRA cited, the information was stolen through Craigslist job ads. FINRA offers these tips to avoid becoming a victim.
 St. Petersburg Times personal finance editor Helen Huntley writes about money topics and answers questions about financial planning, investments and personal income taxes.
Helen has been following the Lou Pearlman/Trans Continental investment scam since December 2006. Read more about it in this special report and on this blog. Looking for help with your income taxes? Check out this special report
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The ads were placed by WSN/TCT "consultant" Alec Defrawy. After a Newsweek story about it, Monster revoked all ads.
Funny enough the same happened later to 1200 job ads on Hotjobs for bogus online "paper" USAVoice, after Helen Huntley (who received a call from some "Alex Siman" defending the scam) made an inquiry with Hotjobs.
USAVoice immediately changed names to "WorldVoice News" after a story in the Washington Post about its deceptive phishing-like activities. Mr. Defrawy is clearly associated with Internet Solutions Corp, that owns Worldvoice News.
Of course this is all pure coincidence (cough).
Posted by: | May 21, 2008 at 07:42 AM
Several years a go Trans Con ran a ridiculous number of ads on monster.com for jobs.
What were they really collecting peoples information for??
Posted by: Stop and think. | May 20, 2008 at 07:36 PM
Emphasis on "con-sultant." Is he going into business with John MacIdiot? They both seem to think alike. He is always quoting/referencing JM. (Maybe vice versa, too.)
So anyway is this phishing thing pretty low key? Is anyone actually losing money? Or is it just data collection to sell mailing lists? Any upfront fees?
Posted by: | May 15, 2008 at 09:27 AM
No, he's only a consultant. ;-)
Posted by: | May 15, 2008 at 07:27 AM
We don't know anyone who visits this blog who runs a phishing scam using bogus online ads, now do we?
Posted by: | May 15, 2008 at 02:40 AM