How to Pick a Paypal Scam Email
by Rev. David B. Smith
Ever since I started encouraging people to take out Paypal subscriptions to support my ezine, I’ve had lots of questions along the lines of “Can Paypal be trusted?” and “How do I know that they are not going to empty my account?”

Well, the simple answer to these questions is that Paypal are the biggest and the best in online eCommerce, and as far as I know they are completely trustworthy. For the same reason though, they are constantly being targetted by scammers worldwide, who will email you, pretending to be representatives of Paypal.

I get one to two Paypal scam emails per day, so if you haven’t received any yet, you’ve been lucky. You can’t avoid getting them. The trick is to recognise them as you receive them, and consign them without hesitation to the virtual dustbin.

Let me give you a simple four-point checklist by which you can pick the scam emails, and then I’m going to show you a video where I actually open a few scam emails to illustrate the same points.

Here’s Father Dave’s checklist:

Does the email come from Paypal.com? If so, in my case, it’s a scam email. I’m in Australia, so if I get a genuine communication from Paypal it will be from Paypal.com.au. If you’re in Brittain it will be from Paypal.com.uk, etc. This is no help if you’re based in the US but you get the idea.

The subject lines have a familiar ring. Admittedly, this assumes that you’ve seen Paypal scam emails before, but believe me, once you’ve seen a dozen, you’ve seen them all! ‘Flagged Account’ is a favourite subject line. ‘Urgent Security Measures’ is another. ‘A new email has been added to your account’ is a third. After a while, you can pick them.

The email does not address you by name. Even if the first two criteria aren’t much help to you, this is an absolutely sure-fire indicator. When Paypal write to you they always address you by name. When scammers write to you they don’t use your name because they don’t know it. But they want to know it, or more particualrly your account details.

The link does not take you to Paypal.com. This is of course the crucial difference. If you follow the link in the scam email, you’ll be taken to a site that has been made up to look like the Paypal site, but is entirely designed to prize your account details from you! Sometimes they use html code to create a linking text in the email that contains a genuine Paypal URL! This is very sneaky! You can always check the real URL in the status bar (if you’re not sure what I’m talking about here, see the video).
The bottom line is that, if you think you have received an email from the real Paypal, go to your account independantly of the possible-scam email and see if there are any messages attached to your account. The real Paypal will do this.

If, after finding no notices attached to your account, you still feel it might be a genuine email, contact Paypal yourself! You email them. They’ll tell you if the email was genuine.

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Rev. David B. Smith (the ‘Fighting Father’) Parish priest, community worker, martial arts master, pro boxer, author, father, Internet Marketer “fatherdave” Get a free preview copy of Dave’s book,Sex, the Ring & the Eucharist when you sign up for his free newsletter at www.fatherdave.org

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A good, shared Web host must provide reliable and reasonable quality of service. Many times, a consumer will sign up with the least expensive provider only to experience many technical difficulties and the inevitable and frustrating experience of changing Web hosts. To avoid this experience, it is best if the consumer chooses the right hosting company. Ensuring that a shared Web hosting firm has the following characteristics will increase the probability of consumer satisfaction.

Quality Server Technology The use of quality server technology is important. Since shared hosting services utilize multiplexed equipment, consumers must ensure that the server and server technology used can accommodate the number of users on your particular server.

System Administrators Make sure that knowledgeable system administrators are operating your hosting company’s technology.

Network Redundancy Your shared hosting package must have multiple connections to the Internet. Network redundancy ensures that if one Internet connection goes down, traffic can be re-routed through another connection.

Network Connectivity It is important to find the fastest Internet connection possible. Since you are competing with other users for resources in a shared hosting environment, you should ensure that you have at least T3 connection that is using less than 50 per cent of available bandwidth.

You should also consider the following factors before selecting any type of shared hosting solution for your Web site. By considering these factors, you will save money in the long run by selecting a solution that grows with your business.

Purchase only what you need Select a Web hosting solution that corresponds with your business needs. Only purchase services that your site will require to provide your specific content. Don’t sign up for an all-inclusive account with a hosting firm if you won’t use most of their services. This will unnecessarily increase your costs.

Select a scalable solution Make sure that your hosting solution can grow as your site grows in complexity. Ensure that you can upgrade your site to accommodate increased bandwidth and other demanding resource requirements such as server-side scripting, database support and multimedia streaming.

Find prompt tech support Only use a host that provides prompt and knowledgeable customer care. A dependable host should offer 24×7 toll-free technical support rendered by experienced and professionally trained technicians.

Check references Before you commit to a particular hosting firm, ask for references. Make sure to canvass other webmasters running sites with similar specifications. Browse their Web sites and measure response times at both peak and non-peak periods.

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Do extensive background research Find out whether a host is real or whether it resells hosting solutions. Also check what payment processor the host uses to run credit card transactions. Determine who owns the hosting company and whether they possess the technical expertise required to run it effectively. All of these factors impact upon the credibility and reliability of the host and the services you provide your customers.

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Establish an exit strategy Always have a backup plan in case your host goes belly-up or experiences an unrecoverable failure. Redundancy should always be a priority if you are running an Internet-based business. Remember that any service outage can completely compromise your source of income.

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All websites need visitors to be successful, but just getting any old traffic isn’t enough. To be really successful, you need targeted traffic (eg. visitors come to your website with the intention of buying, or performing a specific action like subscribing to your list).

To increase targeted website traffic, careful planning is needed. Simply getting your website into the search engines isn’t enough these days. Neither is buying a ton of email addresses and hoping enough people respond to an email blast. Those days are long gone.

Optimizing your website for search engines using the correct keywords is crucial. You want visitors to find your website after searching on the most important keywords related to your website.

Learn to use keyword research tools to find the most relevant keywords. This is very important. If you do not own a software tool like Ad Word Analyzer or have a membership to Wordtracker, then I suggest you use the Keyword Tool inside Google AdWords.

Make good use of meta tags with keywords in the page title and description. You also need to use these same keywords are on your web pages. Just don’t go overboard here. Make your pages look ‘natural’ and keep the theme of your website content consistent.

Google and other search engines main goal is to display the most relevant search results for a given search term by ranking websites that have a tight theme relevance across the entire site.

If you set your website up the right way, when search engines find your website, they will know it is worth listing and index it right away.

Now, you may consider adding a blog to your website to feed the search engines more content. Blog posts gets indexed quickly (search engines love them), so posting to a blog as often as possible is a great way to increase targeted web site traffic.

Likewise, RSS feeds are helpful too. RSS lets people know about the latest updates without them needing to seek out the information. Plus, since the content changes each and every day, you can count on receiving more frequent visits from search engine spiders.

Getting links to your website is also important. However, don’t go requesting them randomly all over the place. Choose websites that relate to your content as Google factors that in these days. Once again, focus on the theme of your website and choose link partners accordingly.

Optionally, quality links can also be gained from writing and submitting articles to websites like EzineArticles.com. There is even software to submit your aticles to hundreds of article directories in a matter of minutes.

Writing an article related to your website’s content will result in more visitors to your website and a nice boost in link popularity. This is one of the easiest and most affordable strategies you can do to get better results.

In summary, the key to succeeding in this new age of search falls on quality. Websites that provide useful and relevant content will succeed. Those webmasters that cut corners will most likely end up nowehere to be found in the search results.

If you want to build a perfectly-structured, highly-optimized website or revamp your existing website, there is a new software tool that recently came out called SiloMatic.

SiloMatic makes sure all of your web pages are properly structured to rank high on Google and other major search engines. It will also link all the web pages correctly to prevent theme bleeding, which is vital for top rankings.

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Pay per click advertising is an ingenuous tool for companies looking for the easy way towards Internet popularity. For those who have had no luck in search engine optimization or who do not want to be hassled with the entire process, it is far easier to go directly to the search engines themselves and try online advertising PPC.

In this method of advertising, the online company or webpage pays the Google or Yahoo! to get to the top of the search list. There is an agreement that every time a surfer types a word or a phrase that matches that of the company’s, their name and link is at the very first page, either in the same format. It is like those found in the main search list or as colored ads that are attractive to Internet users. At this point in online advertising PPC, when a person actually ‘clicks’ and accesses the website, payment is generated for the search engine.

This may be off-putting for smaller companies since their advertising budget may easily run out in the process – but keep in mind that the more people visit, the greater the chance that they will purchase. Just remember to make sure that the online advertising PPC process is in order and will result to optimization for the company. It is like finding good keywords for the search process, directing potential customers to the direct and helpful portion of the company website (to lessen their boredom or disinterest) and tracking the success by experimenting on the search process on engines. By monitoring and organizing these factors, there is greater chance that more people will visit, and will translate to more money in the long run.

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I visited the ruins of a Roman settlement, the other day that was set in a lovely valley in the middle of an island.

The setting was idyllic, sheltered from the winds and not too far from the main market town, it seemed an ideal spot to farm and bring up a family.

Its history was thoughtfully provided on signs around the ruins of a substantial dwelling, which had been expanded in Roman times to include a hot and cold bathroom and mosaic floors. All of this was very attractive and a considerable investment for the landowner. But the settlement was abandoned, and it occurred to me that there had to be a good reason since it was clear that someone had put a lot of effort and finance into their dream.

I wondered if Vikings, who were known to be active in this area after the Romans left, had attacked it but there were no signs of charred brick work or the aftermath of battle.

Looking around another sign revealed the problem. There had been more than one attempt to settle the area, but the land formed a natural point of drainage for the hills around, and successive buildings had each eventually succumbed to subsidence.

I was left in no doubt that the buildings were of a good quality and that the builders were competent at construction, but clearly it had taken a few generations to work out that this was not a suitable site for construction. If we really wanted to settle this place now we would drive piles deep into the ground to overcome the subsidence.

The point that this drove into my mind was that of developing software. It is all too often the case that Software development organizations and their customers make the same mistakes over again. If the foundations are shaky then there is no point in building, but with a little forethought someone will could solve the problem and provide a safe way of delivering a good foundation.

The biggest mistake that organizations make is to rush to cut code before they understand the problem they are solving. That doesn’t mean you have to be complacent and that sitting around in a few meetings will solve all your problems.

What should be done is: -

Ring fence what you know.
Ring fence what you don’t know.
Make sure you are developing the right product.
Build the software that you know will not change.
Check that what you are building is what is wanted.

Often the customer just doesn’t know exactly what they want, so you need to involve them in the development process. The earlier they get to know the product then the more likely they are to buy into the solution. Having said all of that..

Code should be built where it enhances the understanding of the problem both to the customer and the developer.

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In this internet driven world, more and more people are shifting from traditional form of development to techno savvy development. The modern day IT companies have understood the benefits of advance technology. And the companies have used it to good effect and the end result is that IT companies are booming. Today, Indian IT companies have earned name across the globe because of its quality software products.

Big Companies based in different parts of the world are outsourcing their work to India because of the presence of huge pool of talented professionals and also it allows them to save around 40% of money. Besides this, outsourcing allows them to concentrate on their core activities. Techno-savvy companies like Vsworx have gained hugely from outsourcing. Outsourcing to a company like Vsworx is always beneficial. Vsworx being a new generation medium-sized offshore software development company understands the business of clients very well and has developed a unique offshore model that effectively produces quality software products at cost-effective pricing within the stipulated period of time. Our technical team has the requisite proficiency in developing customized software products and assist clients through out the entire software development lifecycle, including project analysis and design, product development, implementation and training. We serve you in a manner as to give you the convenience of in-house development and also the luxury of hassle-free development of software products. All our services are truly global.

Benefits of outsourcing to Vsworx are as follows:

● Product-savvy and domain-savvy talent
● A sizeable pool of high-end architectural, design and testing skills
● Flexible and dynamic development environment
● Feeling of in-house development
● Sound quality

Vsworx as a growing organization believes in quality, aesthetics, functionality and implementation so that our clients’ business benefit immensely. Our advantage lies in the fact that we have 500 person years of experience and also an unshakable customer focus. This unique synergy allows us to deliver solutions that not only solve the most challenging of business issues, but deploy them faster and more cost-effectively. Fueled by the benefits of Internet, we have made our mark in software development and deployment across the globe. At Vsworx, we know that each company’s business needs are slightly different from others. To meet these requirements, we develop and integrate wide range of customized business solutions for our clients worldwide.

To end with it can be said that software development companies in India have made great impressions in the global market and because of the performance of IT companies, India’s economic growth is surging a head.

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