  |  By Mincom, on December 31st, 2009 Today is the last day of the year 2009. For all of you I wish 2009 will have a happy ending and that 2010 will be a year of prosperity for everyone. For South Africans, especially Capetonians, it means that long awaited “Worldcup 2010” is around the corner. I went back into my archives. It is now almost a year ago I seriously started looking at the Internet as a business opportunity and made this statement in one of my posts. “The next thing I would like to make clear is there is no easy quick way to make money on the Internet… without money, legally and in an honest way. If there is anyone who would like to challenge me on this, feel free. I would like to be the first to know about it. I am also sure it is possible to start an Internet business with no major expenses except to [...] By Mincom, on December 28th, 2009 Sydney – A New Zealander was fined by an Australian court on Tuesday after a guilty plea over his part in a syndicate capable of sending 10 billion spam emails a day. Lance Atkinson, was fined 210 000 Australian dollars (about R1,3-million) for breaching the Spam Act 2003 in a case brought by the Australian Communications and Media Authority. Atkinson, 26, sent more than 100 000 unsolicited emails to Australians advertising penis enlargement treatments, weight loss pills and prescription drugs. “The Parliament has made its intention plain that unsolicited distribution of electronic emails is to be discouraged,” the authority said in a release, quoting Justice Andrew Greenwood. Atkinson has also been ordered not to send unsolicited emails for seven years. Atkinson’s assets are currently frozen by US authorities, who earlier this month fined him $15,5-million over an operation he ran with his New Zealand-based brother, Shane Atkinson, and a US accomplice. The Australian agency said it [...] By Mincom, on December 21st, 2009 Why 2010 Will Be A White Knuckle Ride For Web Marketers By Titus Hoskins (c) 2009 Next year may just prove to be one of the most challenging times for pursuing online or Internet marketing on the web. It may just be a watershed moment for many marketers struggling to keep abreast of all the different factors which have come into play in recent months. Most of these changes will stem from two main sources for potential upheaval: the first being the New FTC (Federal Trade Commission) Guidelines regarding Testimonials and Endorsements and the second being “ALL” the recent changes within Google. Actually, we already have the new FTC Guidelines which came into effect on Dec. 1st of 2009, but how these new rules are enforced will play out in the coming year as test-cases are brought to court. Basically, these new rules call for absolute disclosure and full transparency regarding Testimonials and [...] By Mincom, on December 16th, 2009 Hackers using fake YouTube pages A deceptive YouTube attack evolving as it spreads on the Internet is part of a growing trend of hackers to prowl popular online social networking communities in which people trustingly share web links and mini-programs. “We are seeing tools like this not just for YouTube, but for MySpace, Facebook, America Online instant messaging …,” Trend Micro software threat research manager Jamz Yaneza told AFP. “All the various social networking sites have been hit with some page or another.” Hackers using the YouTube attack send people links to what are said to be must-see snippets at the Google-owned video-sharing website. The links, instead, connect to convincingly realistic replicas of YouTube pages and tell people that a software update is needed to view a requested video. Agreeing to the update lets the hacker install malicious software that could log keystrokes, steal data, or even take over people’s computers, according to David Perry of [...] By Mincom, on December 16th, 2009 How fake sites trick search engines by: Jordan Robertson San Fransisco – Even search engines can get suckered by Internet scams. With a little sleight of hand, con artists can dupe them into giving top billing to fraudulent websites that prey on consumers, making unwitting accomplices of companies such as Google, Yahoo and Microsoft. Online charlatans typically try to lure people into giving away their personal or financial information by posing as legitimate companies in “phishing” emails or through messages in forums such as Twitter and Facebook. But a new study by security researcher Jim Stickley shows how search engines also can turn into funnels for shady schemes. Stickley created a website purporting to belong to the Credit Union of Southern California, a real business that agreed to be part of the experiment. He then used his knowledge of how search engines rank websites to achieve something that shocked him: His phony site got a [...] By Mincom, on December 15th, 2009 Are you experiencing the following problems with your computer? * Computer becomes slower and slower over time?
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