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    Pulp Riot Hair Influencer Ambassador Scam: What You Need to Know

    February 5, 2025 - By 

    It often happens after you tag Pulp Riot Hair Color in a post. Suddenly, you find the Pulp Riot Hair Influencer Ambassador scam in your e-mail, promising you free products and money for posting! Read on to find out more about this scam. Pulp Riot Hair Color Scam Pulp Riot is not associated with the scam in any way. The e-mail comes from a Gmail address, which should be your first clue that this is not legit. It sounds like a pretty awesome offer- they want to pay you several thousand dollars and will send you 10 free items to…

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    Mashable Website Footer Scam

    December 23, 2024 - By 

    Does Mashable really want to advertise in your footer for $1200 a month? The Mashable website footer scam is fooling websites into adding a footer at the bottom of their site which includes a Gmail address for people to contact. It starts with the supposed manager of Mashable e-mailing you to ask about paid footer ads on your website. Read on the find out more about this new scam. How much does one post from you cost? This is the subject line on three of the e-mails I’ve gotten involving this scam: How much does one post from you cost?…

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    Visiting New Orleans, Watch Out for Truffoire Gourmet Skincare

    December 12, 2024 - By 

    When visiting the French Quarter in New Orleans, we weren’t prepared for the Truffoire Gourmet Skincare salespeople and their Black Truffle Instant Repair Syringe guerilla sales tactics. It seems like every article warns you about the “Where’d you get those shoes?” scam, but nobody ever mentions watching out for predatory Truffoir skincare salespeople. Be prepared and don’t get lured in! These salespeople lurk outside the Truffoire Gourmet Skincare stores in the French Quarter. Sometimes they have something they are giving away. Our first encounter was with a man handing out soap samples. Seems nice right? Well, they don’t even sell…

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    Watch Out for the PayPal Money Request Scam

    December 5, 2024 - By 

    Yesterday my inbox was full of PayPal money requests from things I didn’t order and companies I’d never heard of. After some research, I discovered it was just a PayPal money request scam. The e-mails had worried at first because they appear to legitimately come from PayPal and look like real money requests. Clicking the links will take you to the real PayPal website. But there’s a twist! The Note in the PayPal Money Request Scam First thing I did was click “Decline” and it took me to PayPal. Then I got nervous it was a scam site, closed it…

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    SHEIN Using Stolen Cosplay Photos for Wigs

    October 6, 2024 - By 

    SHEIN has always been a little shady, with accusations of stolen designs, but now they’ve been exposed using stolen cosplay photos for wig listings. This was recently brought to attention by make-up artist and cosplayer Sydney Nicole Addams, who discovered two of her photos being used without permission on SHEIN. She posted two screenshots on Threads, showing her photos with a long black and white wig, and another with a long red wig. She had never submitted the photos to SHEIN or given them permission to use her photos. On last check, the black and white wig was still there:…