{"id":306,"date":"2006-01-13T02:46:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-13T10:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?m=60"},"modified":"2006-01-13T06:58:25","modified_gmt":"2006-01-13T14:58:25","slug":"ebaypaypal-pyramid-scam-doing-the-rounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/?p=306","title":{"rendered":"eBay\/Paypal pyramid scam doing the rounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I got the notification of an amazing business opportunity!!!!!<\/p>\n<p>No, this time it was not spam, but it was a scam.<\/p>\n<p>This time, it involves eBay, Paypal and the distribution of comparatively small amounts of money (\u00c2\u00a33.00, in this case). <\/p>\n<p>Here's an extract: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dear valued Customer\/Seller<\/p>\n<p>As we did business recently, I thought you might be interested in this money<br \/>\nmaking opportunity. If it works it is great and I am going to take a chance.<\/p>\n<p>This e-mail is going round all paypal and eBay users and it seems to be<br \/>\nworking.<\/p>\n<p>Please do not delete this before reading it in full - it is not a scam and<\/p>\n\n<!--\n<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/02\/22-rdf-syntax-ns#\" xmlns:dc=\"http:\/\/purl.org\/dc\/elements\/1.1\/\" xmlns:trackback=\"http:\/\/madskills.com\/public\/xml\/rss\/module\/trackback\/\">\n<rdf:Description rdf:about=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/node\/1571\" dc:identifier=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/node\/1571\" dc:title=\"eBay\/Paypal pyramid scam doing the rounds\" trackback:ping=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/trackback\/1571\" \/>\n<\/rdf:RDF>\n-->\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=S0V70X\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=S0V70X\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?g=60\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I got the notification of an amazing business opportunity!!!!!<\/p>\n<p>No, this time it was spam, but it was a scam.<\/p>\n<p>This time, it involves eBay, Paypal and the distribution of comparatively small amounts of money (\u00c2\u00a33.00, in this case). <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an extract: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Dear valued Customer\/Seller<\/p>\n<p>As we did business recently, I thought you might be interested in this money<br \/>\nmaking opportunity. If it works it is great and I am going to take a chance.<\/p>\n<p>This e-mail is going round all paypal and eBay users and it seems to be<br \/>\nworking.<\/p>\n<p>Please do not delete this before reading it in full &#8211; it is not a scam and<\/p>\n<p><!--\n<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/02\/22-rdf-syntax-ns#\" xmlns:dc=\"http:\/\/purl.org\/dc\/elements\/1.1\/\" xmlns:trackback=\"http:\/\/madskills.com\/public\/xml\/rss\/module\/trackback\/\">\n<rdf:Description rdf:about=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/node\/1571\" dc:identifier=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/node\/1571\" dc:title=\"eBay\/Paypal pyramid scam doing the rounds\" trackback:ping=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/trackback\/1571\" \/>\n<\/rdf:RDF>\n--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=I6z32c\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=I6z32c\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?g=60\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}