• Detective game - can you spot the scam and how it works?

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    TrustButVerify
    Published on January 19th, 2012 05:50 AM
    Here's a fun little game. It's not about a website for sale but it is a nice little exercise in fraud spotting and number manipulation.

    I'll lay out all the pieces and let some one else buy a vowel and solve (we gotta have some US show references up in here) .


    So I'm looking for contractors over on odesk and I see something really odd in someone's work history.

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    Data Entry Specialist + Proxy Switching?

    She even goes so far as to mention the website she was doing "data entry" on.
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    Hhhhhmmmmmmm.... that's odd. Why would someone be doing data entry on a "Get a free Ipad" site. The site where you give your zip code and get bombarded with affiliate offers and your email is spammed, etc.

    After doing some searching, here are the details of the job she was doing:

    Job Description

    Looking for someone who will be taking information from an Excel sheet and pasting it into a web form.

    You also MUST know how to switch to new US Proxies - I will not provide it. THIS IS A MUST!! THEY ALSO MUST BE PRIVATE PROXIES AND CANNOT BE PUBLIC!!! THEY MUST BE ELITE PROXIES AND YOU CANNOT USE HIDEMYASS OR HIDE MY IP

    In your message, please tell me what kind of experience you have done in the past with proxy switching. You must obtain your OWN proxies and have your own source. I will teach you everything you need to do, but you MUST
    REMEMBER, KNOWLEDGE OF PROXY SWITCHING IS A MUST!!

    MUST HAVE A PLACE TO GET ELITE PROXIES FROM (MEANING THEY CANNOT SHOW AS SUSPECTED NETWORK SHARING DEVICE ON WHATISMYIPADDRESS.COM)

    Wow, he really seems adamant about those proxies not being detectable....



    Here's the kicker, check out how many hours he has been having people submit zip codes and sign up to that site:

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    Alright my friends - anyone care to explain this one?


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