Monday, August 04, 2008
You can help some of the people some of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can't ...
The Los Angeles Times reported that internet entrepreneur David Boctor was a victim [of the online Olympics ticket scam], paying $11,500 for tickets to the opening ceremony, swimming and diving, but became suspicious after his credit card was used to charge for airline tickets he did not buy.
Mr Boctor told the Times: “If I failed to recognise this internet scam, very few other individuals with less of an e-commerce background would have had a chance, so I can empathise with others in the same position.”
Sorry Mr. Boctor but there were a few clues. Apart from the phony logo along with the wrong font (original here - for anyone to see) and the dodgy sentence construction, every man and his e-commerce internet entrepreneur knows that when you purchase online there is an up in there in lights 'https' protocol for secure sites and it wasn't there on the scam site.
Labels: Places head between knees and takes deep breaths ... lots of 'em.
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