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There's no scam like an old scam. I was almost taken in by this message I received yesterday, but like most scams they almost always do something stupid to tip you off. In this case it was the part about paying me $4,800 a month. That might work for a site that is getting millions of visitors a month, because they will already be making some money, but for smaller sites, it's stupid. If they had said $48 I might have tried it. $480 would have me wondering, but $4,800 is like those Nigerian emails about getting millions. Then I hear that to tap in this money you have to PAY THEM? Yeah, right you morons.

----Original Message-----
From: tmanmarketing@yahoo.com [mailto:tmanmarketing@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 10:28 PM
Subject: I've visited your website http://www.bizprolink-internet.com/0702/070209-3.htm

Hi,

We've seen your website at http://www.bizprolink-internet.com/0702/070209-3.htm
and we love it!

We see that your traffic rank is 176710
and your link popularity is 54.
Also, you have been online since 2/3/2004.

With that kind of traffic, we will pay you up to $4,800/month
to advertise our links on your website.

If you're interested, read our terms from this page:
http://www.contactthem.ws/hit.php?s=160&p=2&w=666666

Sincerely,

Tom  VanBuren
The ContactThem Network
616-886-1549

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Hi Tom VanBuren,

Thanks, but I have already used up my monthly budget on scams and rip-offs this month. I can put you on a waiting list for next month though, let me know if the offer will still be good and I'll be sure to get back to you. Say, do you have an affiliate program? I have a number of contacts in Nigeria and Romainia that I would love to send your way... so you could Contact Them.

P.S. Say, are you any friend of Stephan Ducharme?

Velti Rolls out Mobile Marketing Platform 4.0 at Mobile World Congress

Mobile Communities, M-Commerce and Personalised Marketing Are Key Enhancements To Class-Leading Mobile Marketing Technology

London, UK, Mar 5th 2008: Velti, (LSE-AIM: VEL), a mobile marketing and advertising technology service provider, launched version 4.0 of its Mobile Marketing Platform (MMP 4.0) at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. This latest version features enhanced advertising and marketing templates enabling Velti's customers to reach consumers through new interactive mobile mediums including mobile communities, games and applications.

Mobile Marketing Platform MMP v4.0 features advertising and marketing templates, enabling users to reach consumers through interactive mobile media including mobile communities, games, and applications. Loyalty schemes, mobile coupons, social networks, and other interactive templates can be designed, deployed, and measured. Software also features Personalization Engine that is capable of retrieving/processing real time data from consumer behavior.

Building on more than seven years of experience in mobile advertising technology development, MMP 4.0 allows advertisers and operators to create campaigns that offer consumers a unique mobile marketing experience rather than simply putting adverts in front of eyeballs.

Loyalty schemes, mobile coupons, social networks and other interactive templates can now be easily designed, deployed and measured giving marketers new ways to reach customers through their mobile phones and other portable devices.

"MMP 4.0 allows companies to bring the mobile phone into the wider marketing mix," says Alexandros Moukas, CEO, Velti. "Rather than just experiment with mobile advertising and marketing, advertisers now have the technology platform to engage with customers in new ways to create brand awareness, build loyalty, offer new content and interact in ways that traditional advertising can not."

Velti's founding principal for its technology platform is to offer enhanced interactivity with end users, taking mobile advertising and marketing beyond the banner ad and other Internet advertising staples.

MMP 4.0 enables advertisers to develop more sophisticated SMS and MMS campaigns offering integration with online games and social networks that allow mobile communication.

MMP 4.0 also includes a new version of the Personalization Engine, capable of retrieving and processing real time data from consumer behaviour resulting in real-time dynamic segmentation and user-targeting. This advanced facility results in phenomenal response rates to campaigns, such as in the campaign developed with mobile operator MTEL on a short code competition led to the country's most successful mobile campaign with over 12.5m messages from a subscriber base of just 4.5m.

Adds Moukas: "Our customer base of global brands, mobile operators and media companies want to reach out to consumers in new and exciting ways.
They're thinking way beyond the banner advert but need a technology and service partner that gives them the platform and the confidence to invest in new mobile campaigns. MMP 4.0 builds on the incredible success story of Velti as a company. As mobile advertising evolves into a crucial part of the marketing mix, Velti will continue to offer customers new and innovative ways to exploit the market to its full potential."

Velti is offering demonstrations of its innovative Mobile Marketing Platform at its booth 7C86 in Hall 7.

About Velti
Velti's market-leading mobile marketing technology platform, coupled with its experience in the mobile advertising industry, enables clients around the world to deliver an extensive range of highly targeted marketing campaigns. With operations in 16 countries: UK, USA, Greece, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Philippines, FYROM (Macedonia), Romania, Bosnia, Turkey, Ukraine, Armenia, France, Germany, China and Russia, Velti has implemented projects reaching an estimated 570 million consumers (not including China, which will go live later in 2008).

Velti's unique Mobile Marketing Platform (version 4.0) manages the full cycle of planning, execution and monitoring of multiple campaigns across differing mobile formats and channels, offering customers more than 70 above and below-the-line mobile marketing and advertising formats, which can be managed from one user interface.

Velti is a publicly traded company listed on the London Stock Exchange (AIM), with sustainable growth in revenue and profits. The company is heavily investing in its customers' future needs, especially in the mobile advertising and mobile content enablement market. D. Mann (Former Group CEO of LogicaCMG plc), N. Negroponte ( Non-Executive Director of Motorola, Inc, and MIT Professor & founder of Media Lab),, D. Hobley (Non-Executive Director of Orange) and J. Goldstein (former Executive Director and Board Member of Citicorp Investment Bank in London.

For more information please visit www.velti.com
Contacts:

Public Relations:
Weber Shandwick
Beth Meszaros
INTL
Phone: +44(0)20 7067 0518

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Pay Day Advance Loans

I just got email from another Registry company using spam to offer a Copyright Registry service designed to scare domain and web site owners. If you want to register for a copyright at a Copyright Registry in the US, don't use any US Copyright service that sends you spam or unsolicited commercial email. You can go to the US Copyright government Registry site and do it yourself, or search in Google for an honest Copyright Registry company that can provide the service. But you should be aware that all published works are already covered by a US Copyright. This is not something you have to pay extra for:

Never Pay More Than $10 A Year For Domain Registration!

I just got another letter from Liberty Names and I felt like I needed to post a message about them in case people are checking them out and want to know why they should NOT return the letter and go with them. There are two reasons:

1) They send you what LOOKS LIKE an invoice and if you don't read it carefully, you could think it's just a domain registration renewal notice. After all at the top right of the letter it says in large letters: "Domain Name Expiration Notice".

To their credit, they do say that this is a TRANSFER that you would be doing, but they also say things that are confusing and not clear or the entire story. In short, while not outright lies, they are not the full truth either. Rather than sending a nice sales letter with information about their company and why you should transfer to them, they choose to mislead and create fear, uncertainty, and doubt.

2) The fee for renewal/transfers is $29, they they offer NOTHING in my opinion to justify this outrageous fee. When I first registered a domain many years ago, I did have to pay Network Solutions $35 a year. Then I discovered DirectNIC.com and only had to pay $15 a year for the same services. For the past 3 years I have only been paying between $7 and $10 a year and if you are paying more than that you are being ripped-off, or have a special kind of domain that is more expensive. Their fee is at least THREE TIMES AS EXPENSIVE AS MOST OTHER REGISTRARS.


Liberty Names of America Inc. or Lnoa Inc.
1623 Military Rd PMB663
Niagara Falls, NY 14304
www.libertynamesofamerica.com
www.lnoa.com

Dear Reverend Barrister Willy Bayo,

Thank you for your message. I am so very glad that you were able to catch these people!

They stole a total of $225,000 from us over a period of 8 months. Each time they contacted me they wanted more and more money. After a while I thought that I would have none left, so I stopped paying them.

It would be wonderful if I could get that money back. Please let me know what I need to do.

Thank you,
Mrs. Mable Nordfish

-----Original Message-----
From: Reverend Barrister Willy Bayo [mailto:revwillybayo@sify.com]
Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2008 9:36 AM
Subject: The Syndicate that defrauded you has been caught!

To whom it may concern

We have nabbed a syndicate of fraudsters who specializes in document forgery, impersonation and using of fictitious offices and clandestine phone, fax and emails to defraud innocent people. On interrogation, we promised these syndicate that if they confess their evil acts, that we will help them reduce their jail terms. Based on this promise we made to them, they provided your email address as one of their victims. We don't know if their confession that they defrauded you is correct. If indeed you lost any money to these fraudsters in the time past, please notify us with immediate effect. We have recovered enormous amount in their accounts. We have also seized and sold all their houses, companies, expensive cars, stocks and shares they bought with their ill gotten wealth for the purpose of paying their victims what they lost.

Our concern now is that their victims as they enlisted are so many that all the money we realized from the sale of their belongings including the money recovered in their account will not be enough to pay back all their victims in full what they have lost. We advise you to respond as quickly as possible to enable you be among the first to be reimbursed. Due to the fact that their victims are too many, we may not guarantee to reimburse you all you lost but will assure you that you will recover at least half. In your reply, do indicate the total amount they defrauded from you for verification purposes. Note however that your transport cost and other contingencies including the transfer charges should not be included as part of your total lost. If you are not the right person, please disregard this email.

Reverend Barrister Willy Bayo
Director,
Centre for Cyber / Electronic Crime Control

Finally, it has taken a priest/lawyer to catch those nasty scammers that
have been ripping off so many people...

-----Original Message-----
From: Reverend Barrister Willy Bayo [mailto:revwillybayo@yahoo.co.uk]
Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2008 3:06 AM
Subject:The Syndicate that defrauded you has been caught.

Dear Sir/Madam,

We have nabbed a syndicate of fraudsters who specializes in document
forgery, impersonation and using of fictitious offices and clandestine
phone, fax and emails to defraud innocent people. On interrogation, we
promised these syndicate that if they confess their evil acts, that we will
help them reduce their jail terms. Based on this promise we made to them,
they provided your email address as one of their victims. We don't know if
their confession that they defrauded you is correct. If indeed you lost any
money to these fraudsters in the time past, please notify us with immediate
effect. We have recovered enormous amount in their accounts. We have also
seized and sold all their houses, companies, expensive cars, stocks and
shares they bought with their ill gotten wealth for the purpose of paying
their victims what they lost. Our concern now is that their victims as they
enlisted are so many that all the money we realized from the sale of their
belongings including the money recovered in their account will n

Reverend Barrister Willy Bayo
Director,
Centre for Cyber / Electronic Crime Control.