Just a quick post to alert others regarding activity of a “Mr Benson Raymond” from Nigeria. Daria posted that other day regarding seperating you from your money and it looks as though this character fits the profile well. Here is the email being sent to people posting classified ads on various websites… ======= Hello, I am Mr Benson raymond, I work in with a small retailing company.I actually saw the advert you placed and I will like to know the last offer you want to let it out and gather more info about it and the major reason why you
By Michael Dorausch, DC This scam topic must really be getting old for lots of people. Interesting thing though is I’ve received several e-mails from people across United States that were about to get scammed by 419 fraudsters and they fortunately did some research online and came across at least one of the fraud related articles we’ve posted during the past several months. That thanks goes to the community for sniffing out fraud activity. Early this morning about a dozen people received the same e-mail from a person using a Yahoo.com e-mail account. The e-mail appeared very similar to those
By Michael Dorausch, DC I’m on a roll. Turns out the subluxated fraudbag that targeted e-mails at the classified ad community has been doing so on other web sites as well. We received an e-mail yesterday from someone that was selling a motorcycle in a US state that was contacted by the same individual e-mailing users on our classifieds site. Thanks to the participation of the community we were able to post information about the suspected fraud. While it’s frustrating for those seeking to sell items to others, it’s motivating to receive e-mails from people that have gained from reading
By Michael Dorausch, DC It’s not like I haven’t posted about potential fraud and scams involving e-mail when people post product items to classified ad web sites. The chiropractic community has really stepped it up and I appreciate all the efforts many have taken to foreword suspicious e-mails in a timely fashion. As I’ve said before, An active community minimizes classified ad fraud activity. I had an e-mail yesterday from someone who apparently never read the bolded red text on avoiding scams and fraud. That motivated me to organize information one more time and share it here. If this stuff
By Michael Dorausch, DC This postcard appeared at my chiropractic office and I thought it provided a good opportunity to share some information about auctions as they relate to furnishing new practices on a recent graduate start up budget. First off, I’m not acquainted with the business hosting this auction, and I’m not familiar with the chiropractic medical office that is being liquidated. According to the other side of the postcard, it appears that the office was abandoned (card reads: Abandoned Personal Property Ordered Sold By Landlord) and the landlord is seeking to recoup costs. I’m listing details related to
By Michael Dorausch, DC The admin for our classifieds ad system checks in with me every evening with a report of ads posted for the day. I continue to be impressed with the number of new ads that post daily. What in the world did chiropractors do before they could post ads for xray, offices for sale, and jobs wanted online? Journal and magazines I suppose. Well, there is a particular type of ad placed that frequently gets deleted. Most are titled: Work From Comfort of Your Home and they read something like… Take control, get the lifestyle you want
By Michael Dorausch, DC Chiropractors and others doing business within the industry of the chiropractic profession post classified ads seven days a week on the Planet Chiropractic classified ad pages. I noticed an advertisement posted yesterday that utilized a few of the features I’ve spoken about numerous times when making suggestions on going granular with ones advertisements. The ad was placed by a chiropractic office in San Diego, California and I want to highlight a few of the things I think they did right when posting their ad. You can view listing 20950 here (at least until it expires). First
By Michael Dorausch, DC 3 different sellers of items posted to the classified ads e-mailed me all within a few hours of each other with an e-mail from a suspected scammer. I appreciate them all forwarding the e-mail and I found it to be a perfect example of something that should be obvious, but sometimes isn’t to either new sellers or buyers. In my experience, scammers are targeting sellers of products, hoping to separate them from their items. I’ve made numerous posts regarding spotting fraud on items such as Nervo-Scopes, surface EMG, x-ray equipment, chiropractic tables, and other items. This
by Michael Dorausch, DC I’ve been talking quite a bit about getting more specific with creation of content for everything from local listings to classified advertising. I noticed some good examples earlier today of classified ad data that includes model number and location information, exactly the granular type of information I’ve been talking about. There’s a subcategory of the classifieds that features ads for thermography and surface EMG units. Looking at the screenshot we can see there are ads for a Thermeter / Neurocalometer which is wanted in Metairie, Louisiana. Someone in Downey, California is selling a Neurodyne Semg 7000
by Michael Dorausch, DC Not all classified ads are created equally. In this post we are going to take a look at three different classified advertisements I noticed were posted earlier today. The advertisements are all related to the chiropractic health care industry but the concepts of creating more granular information apply to anyone posting online classified ads. The first ad was posted in an office space for rent category and the title reads Chiropractor to share space. In the description I can see that this office space is in a wellness Center located in Chula Vista, California. The ad