PC Hell: Home Income Profit Kit Scam

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I received several emails a few weeks back that were clearly spam. They were similar to the following:

Hey how are you doing? I am inviting you to join me in this , I have came ahead quite a bit since I started a week ago! Read this and see what you think it's on google http://bit.ly/qEU1o7

What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples' decisions for them? -- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All
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Mark hello how's your day going? I want you to join me , I am starting to get ahead. Once you read this you'll see what I mean http://bit.ly/qjgbtL?id=209939

"If that boy had a brain, he'd take it out and play with it like it was a toy!" -- Grandma Lee, about her son.
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hey Mark how's your day going? I just wanted to share this with you , I am starting to get ahead. Check it out http://bit.ly/pzWNES?id=615186

When you are lazy, laziness is a four-letter word, because you stop at the 'i'. -- Billy Dunn

All of the emails were personalized with my name and a link to a bit.ly redirect. If you don't know what bit.ly is let me explain. There are hundreds of short url services on the net popularized by the existence of Twitter and Facebook. These short urls allow you to take a link and shorten it but also more importantly control it. At any time, you can log into your bit.ly account in this case and change the destination of the link.

This is actually what is happening with this particular spam email. Several weeks ago, the link in the email was advertising a product called "Home Wealth Solution Kit", this week the product is called "Home Income Profit Kit". Next week, it may be called something totally different. This link, when clicked, takes you to a very fake Daily News report as seen in the screenshot below. The "news" is personalized with the region your IP Address is originating from, in my case Oregon. Along with lots of stories about making money online and earning an income from home. Everyone would love to stay at home and earn money, so the idea is a great lure for almost anyone.

Any link you click on the site will take you to a CPA (Cost per action) offer that currently pays about $43 per entry. That means if the spammers send this email to 1 million people (not a stretch by any means) and only .01 percent of those people fill in the form (100 responses), the spammer will have made $4300.00. That's the reason any spam email is sent, money.

The current domain dailynews3.org is registered in China, so most of these spams are coming from China in this particular case.

Please, be aware of such scams on the Internet and via email, and don't become a victim of them.

Home Wealth Solution or Home Income Profit Kit Scam

Home Wealth Solution or
Home Income Profit Kit Scam