InsyncSoft and PayPal scam is also serious
I apologize if I seemed too light-hearted in the earlier post. Scams are no joke, and innocent people are taken in by them every day. I see, on average, about 50 of those emails every day, so I sometimes forget that not everyone has seen them.
Another dangerous scam is out there that people should be aware of, and it's taking place in the US and in the UK. Our company recently became aware that someone had hijacked the content off one of our websites, put it up onto their site, and was using it to perpetrate a version of the PayPal scam -- similar to the above in some ways, only the person ends up wiring money to the Ukraine. Working with people who were taken in by the scam (she lost $3000 in one month), we have managed to get the advertisements taken off the major job sites (they were advertising for people to process PayPal payments for them). However, despite our best efforts, we have not yet managed to get their hosting company to shut down the site. We will be pursuing legal action if the site is not taken down soon, on grounds of copyright violation and plagiarism.
These people very definitely have friends in the US, but we have exposed them by name on our company blog (the bogus company in question is InsyncSoft, their hosting company is Doteasy) and in other publications. I commend David for his earlier efforts to protect people and alert them, and I'm sorry that something happened to change your mind about it. I also commend McFox for his posting, since it's probable that some readers haven't heard of that scam yet. One person warned is one less victim, and scammers don't quit as long as they can still succeed.
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