The March Group and Scam Emails

March Group Scam bloggers hate unnecessary emails. They bog up our fine blogging machine and we want to avoid all the email spam. So today’s blog relates to how we at The March Group Scam, avoid them for ourselves. First, take a good inventory of how often you put your personal email out to the World Wide Web, and if you are like us, it is surprisingly often. Then, once you realize that your email is not always protected, consider using a new and separate email address for posting messages to daily newsgroups or mailing lists. Any place that has your email address is another location that can be trawled to get your data. Not protecting your personal email can directly measure just how much of your spam is coming from these public forums.

Next, consider subscribing to online services that provide you with disposable addresses. When you subscribe to these service, you are given a ‘disposable’ address that actually forwards to your real, hidden address. If you begin to get too much spam from one address, take it out of circulation and find another one. One such company that The March Group Scam know of is Sneakemail at http://sneakemail.com.

Lastly, don’t overlook the biggest spam generator of all, your own website. Cloak your email address on your site so that roaming bots don’t find your personal email and spam you like crazy. To do this find a free email cloaking site that gives you an anonymous address that forwards to your real address, we like Acme Web Design at http://acme-web-design.info/free-web-email-cloaker.php.

 It is estimated that 95% of Internet scams originate from spammers and spam email. March Group Scam bloggers suggest you put your Internet presence into that small 5% by following our simple tips to avoid scams and unwanted spam. If you are interested in buying or selling a business contact The March Group at www.marchgroup.com or call 866-663-5806. If you would like to subscribe to The March Group Scam blog to learn how to avoid scams, subscribe here.

March Group Avoids Scams and Frauds: Do Not Call Lists

The March Group Scam Alert knows that there are con artists around every turn.  Our March Group Scam Blog attempts to keep our readers informed of the latest scams and frauds and how to avoid them.  This week we cover how you can remove yourself from phone solicitation calls.  Read on for more information on how to avoid scams with The March Group Scam Blog.

The National Do Not Call Registry was started by the Federal Trade Commission to allow Americans a choice to receive telemarketing calls at home or to refuse them.  Statistics reveal that up to 92 percent are noticing a difference in the amount of calls and 78 percent say that they receive far fewer or no calls at all.  To register for this free consumer service click on this link (https://www.donotcall.gov/) and follow the prompts.  You may list up to 3 phone numbers and your email address.  They will send you an email confirmation to complete your registration.
If you believe that you have already added your name to this list but continue to receive telemarketer calls, the National Registry suggests that you go to their website and confirm the numbers listed for you.  You can also call to confirm your registry at 888-382-1222 or 866-290-4236. Call from the phone number you wish to verify for speedy service and confirmation of your registration. 
If you continue to be bothered by telemarketers 31 days after registering, you can file a complaint on their same National site (https://www.donotcall.gov/).   To stay up to date with avoiding scams, sign up for our March Group Scam Blog here.  If you are interested in buying or selling a business contact The March Group at www.marchgroup.com or call 866-663-5806.

March Group Finds Scams and Frauds

Ever wonder just how effective your security software is?  Have you ever gone to the website of the security software to see their news on threats to look out for?  March Group scam finders are busy keeping themselves up to date on Internet scam and fraud threats.  For this blog we even checked out a few of the more popular security software sites to find out if these busy companies are really working on our side.  The March Group Scam and Fraud Watch thinks you should do the same, and so we gave you the links to follow in case you have one of these companies security software on your computer.
First we checked McAfee’s Threat Center (http://www.mcafee.com/us/threat_center/default.asp) to see if they were reporting on the latest threats and security breaches, you can also find the most up-to-date threats coming from IP addresses, which March Group Scam bloggers found very handy for those frequent unknown emails in our inboxes.  Then we looked at AVG (http://viruslab.blog.avg.com/) and they have a number of blogs about recent threats and trends, you’ll have to go through them to find the info you really want though.  So far McAfee wins for ease of use. Lastly we checked out Norton AntiVirus which was pretty user friendly and full of info on avoiding Internet threats, cons, scams and frauds (http://www.symantec.com/norton/security_response/index.jsp). 
Though March Group scam bloggers only searched the top three antivirus and security software companies, if you didn’t see your software company here, go and Google them, subscribe to their threat list, if they have one, or just check out their reports on the latest scams before the scam finds you.  For more information on avoiding scams subscribe the March Group Scam blog.   If you are interested in buying or selling a business contact The March Group at www.marchgroup.com or call 866-663-5806.

The March Group and Scam School

Watching out for scams with The March Group is very serious business. So we decided, that with all the deceit, fraud and scams out there, that The March Group would take a lighter approach to the scam artist this week. Welcome March Group’s scam coverage of Scam School. Scam School is the creative work of award winning magician Brian Brushwood who gives you the backstage view of famous bar tricks, street scams and familiar cons. It is said of Mr. Brushwood, that if Harvard had a PhD for scams, he would be the professor. Light on real scams but with a heavy dose of entertainment, Mr. Brushwood plies his victims with simple cons that we have seen for ages, but never had a handle on how they worked or why we continued to fall for them.

March Group’s scam bloggers suggest checking out the Scam School site for a little relief from the everyday. Who knows if you finish this clinic, you might be the hit at your next party. For more information on avoiding scams subscribe to the March Group Scam blog. If you are interested in buying or selling a business contact The March Group at http://www.marchgroup.com or call 866-663-5806.