Whenever you work on a contract basis, there’s always the potential that someone will try to take advantage of you. And when that happens – believe me, it will happen – you’ll ether be able to stop them or you’ll be a victim. Careful contract planning, which we’ll talk about later this week, is the key to making sure that you never get scammed in the first place…but it happens to the best of us. Maybe there was a loophole in your contract. Maybe the amount isn’t worth going to court to get back. Maybe the scammers used a fake …read more

According to the twitter and newspeak I hear, spammers and scammers are getting evermore present even after the biggest spammer of all time was arrested. One has to use firefox to try and weed some of them out. If you belong to google groups, yahoo, facebook or where-ever, and lets face it, most of us do, you’ll get scam mail, lots of it.
So how do you protect yourself? Because people really do fall prey to these scams.
Number 1 rule  
Banks do not contact you by e mail. If you bank on-line, you have a password to enter the system and that’s part of your security, and …read more