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Email phishing and fraudulent email is on the rise so beware. Phishing is becoming more rampant.

You might probably get an email from a company or a website that you subscribe to, asking for you to confirm some personal or financial information, that they could use in accessing your accounts and cleaning them out, or buying stuff using your credit card information.

I recently got an email, claiming that it was from eBay and that I had not paid for an item which I had won, and hence they needed me to view the disputed item and confirm some information. The most revealing sign that this was a phishing email, was that it opened by simply saying “Dear Member”.

Legitimate emails from sites that you subscribe to always address you, your name or your account name or indicate your account number. Be careful with email like this.

Incidentally, here is a post which also has to do with emailing phishing.

Internet Auction Fraud incidents are on the rise rise recently, read this post to be aware.

Have you recently received any email purportedly from Ebay or any other auction company online? The email is either about a seller making a complaint about you and your not paying for an item you have purchased, or maybe the company is sending you an email to update your account details.

I have received several of those phony and fraudulent messages. What happens is, they indicate a link on the email for you to click which leads you to a “phishing” site, or a website where they can collect your personal data.

Whenever you get an email like this, and doubt that you really made any purchases recently using that company, the first thing to do is NOT to click any of those links. Instead go to the official site of the company, if you know it, and send their support department or customer service an email. Forward to them the email you have received to verify if it really is from them.

These recent fraudulent emails look so real actually that you can easily fall for it.

This isn’t about SPAM in a can, but the one that floods your email inbox the moment you check your mail at the office in the morning.

The reason I am writing this, is to give a valuable tip to those who have inadvertently been spamming and without their knowing it.

But what is spam?

Wikipedia says E-mail spam or junk e-mail is a subset of spam that involves sending nearly identical messages to numerous recipients by e-mail. Originally the term spam applied only to usenet messages, although it has now popularly been applied to e-mail, particularly because the effect is similar and is more well known. A common synonym for spam is unsolicited bulk e-mail (UBE).

What do you mean by unsolicited? It simply means, I received email with information or data that (a) I didn’t ask for, and thus (b) I am not supposed to be getting.

Actually the real reason that got me started in writing this post is because I received an email from someone from a prestigious 5 star hotel advertising a promo; I was copy furnished, together with so many other people. You wanna know how I handled it? Read the email I sent to the person who sent the email.
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Hello XXXXXXXXXX,

I would like to make an inquiry…

I received this email from you; however I do not remember requesting for any information; neither am I a part of a web ring hosted by your company; I am not also a member of a club of the hotel that who receives weekly promotions.

Having said that, your email is considered spam, and I sincerely suggest for you to please avoid sending unsolicited email. I’ll tell you why.

If there was someone out there crazy enough and with an axe to grind against your company, that person can easily report you to your domain registrar and ICANN, and what happens is your domain could get suspended.

I’m telling you, these guys take spam seriously. I say “could” because there are some domain registrars that have very strict spam policies and some are kind of lax. Either way, it’s risky. You may not have access to your domain name… in case your wondering, your domain name is
“XXXXXXXXXXXX.net”.

Do not worry, I received this email cc’d with several other people, and I didn’t cc them with this email to you.

So please, refrain from sending out unsolicited email. I am here to help =D

Thanks and have a nice day,

Roy Sencio
www.mywebsnack.info
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This is a reprint of an article I wrote about Niche Empires, and I know this would be of interest to niche marketers and those who are looking at creating niche websites.

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Not too long ago, maybe a week or so, we had this discussion about the new product from Andrew Hansen called Niche Empire Generator.

I am very much tempted to tell you how many niche sites I have created so far, and how fast it is to put one together using the software but… let me just tell you instead of what I think of it, after about a week of use.

If this is the first blog you have caught on my site about the Niche Empire Generator, let me just bring you up to speed. The Niche Empire Generator software basically builds and manages niche websites for you. The kind of niche sites are Wordpress blog based and are based on Andrew’s successful niche site principles laid out in the popular report Niche Marketing On CRACK that he released a couple of months back.

With a week working with the program, these are probably the general pros and cons.

Pros:

- fast niche site creation, customized to your liking and with many helpful addons, for most people learning new software is such a chore, but videos are provided so you can get your first profitable niche site up and running very quickly

- websites in general are useless if not seen by search engines, and the processes and actions taken to make sure sites do get seen and indexed on search engines is SEO, luckily the software is very SEO friendly and eliminates a lot of work and helps promote the site by submitting the site’s RSS feeds all over the web and integrates social bookmarking features designed to pull traffic from the social network sites

- easy maintenance, content posting and efficient site management makes life a lot easier, and working on your site quicker.. more time to do other things

- it doesn’t just manage your sites, it manages everything you do to your sites so you can instantly know when your sites will need updating again, where their ranking in the search engines, how many links you’re getting, what articles you’ve submitted to where and much more

Cons:

- if your goal is to build an niche empire, it can be done but it does take a little time… and work on our part… it doesn’t do everything and you will have to do your part such as preparing, uploading and scheduling the publishing of content, although it does come with a huge library of content for your you to choose from

- not a significant number of templates, and you might want to use your own which would probably be advantageous if you look at it differently, you get to fully personalize your site or exactly custom fit it to the niche you serve

Verdict:

The bottom line is… automation is a great thing online, total automation is generally not possible. This Niche Empire Generator thing is as close to maximum automation as I have seen in terms of niche marketing.

You can set it up just once, and depending on how much content you load and schedule for publishing, you can possibly just leave it for months and months… while you check your Adsense reports for sales it brings in for you.

Maybe it is time you got yourself one, check it out by clicking the link below:

http://www.nicheempiregenerator.com/?go=1805