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Is this a scam?
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There are hundreds more though:
http://wafflesatnoon.com/2009/01/10/scam-alert-website-list/
The latest trick is fake newspaper websites:
http://electronplumber.com/the-los-angeles-tribune-news-scam/
For example this one
http://www.blogstorm.co.uk/easy-google-profit-scam/#comment-150033
Is owned by someone in Los Angeles (the Manchester News Gazette does not exist)
http://webwhois.nic.uk/cgi-bin/whois.cgi?query=manchesternewsgazette.co.uk&WHOIS+Submit.x=24&WHOIS+Submit.y=8"The happiest of people don't necessarily have the
best of everything; they just make the best
of everything that comes along their way."
-- Author Unknown --0
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