Stupidest Scam or Spam of the Week Essay Cheating

There are many online services that provide essays on demand, plus academic papers and similar of all kinds.

This is not the same as services that are welcomed by the academic communities for providing test papers, reference materials etc.

Instead, these sites target people who want to do better than they deserve.

Why write a long essay for school or college when you can pay a website to provide it for you with no effort?

That’s effectively their sales pitch and these sites are common.

Large academic institutions have to protect against their students ‘cheating’ in this way but some people will always try.

Some of the latest scam emails offering this service use software to randomly combine stock phrases into messages they hope to get through the spam filters at the email service providers, but they also make it obvious that the sender has no clue what they are doing

e.g. “When it pertains to your career as brilliant future”

or “that way you wouldn’t have to reconsider prior to trusting us”

or “enjoy the incentives of wonderfully created academic documents”

or “We promote your growth in the right direction”

No-one in their right mind would want to trust an organisation to produce documents when they put out this kind of message and sends it from a private Gmail address.

Do the work yourself.

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Your Phone APPS Are Tracking You

A surprising number of smartphone APPS ask on installation for permission to access your location.  For APPS such as the Automobile Association or Map based APPS or Local weather or Find a Restaurant this makes sense but many APPS want to track your location for their own benefit – not yours.

Carnegie Mellon University carried out a study on Android phones. The researchers followed 23 Android phone owners for three weeks. In the first week, they were asked to use their apps as they normally would. In the second week, the participants used an app called App Ops to monitor and manage the data those apps were using. In the third week, the research team introduced a “privacy nudge” alert that would ping the participants each time an app requested location data.

The title of the study is: Your Location Has Been Shared 5,398 Times! A Field Study on Mobile App Privacy Nudging.

APPS access your location so they can build a profile on your activities and sell that data to Marketing companies. This is most common with free APPS as the makers need some way to make money and Marketing companies pay for tracking data.

Stop Location Tracking

Try to choose APPS that don’t require permission such as tracking location, but if you do use such APPS then reset permissions so they cannot access your location.

On your Android phone open the Settings app then go to Apps & notifications, choose an app, and select Permissions. On iOS open the Settings app then pick an app to see the permissions it has.

To find out exactly what use is made of your location data means reading the terms and conditions for the APP which almost no-one ever bothers with.

Taking back control

On Android you can disable location tracking on the device as a whole by opening Settings, then tapping Security & location and Location, and then turning tracking off.

On iOS open Settings, then go to Privacy and Location services, and disable the feature.

It’s your phone so you should be in charge.

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Be an exclusive Product Tester

An email from “Luxury Opinions”

Title says “Join an exclusive community for free to test new to market luxury goods”

That’s a good ‘hook’ – who wouldn’t want to test luxury items for free.

It goes on to explain

“We’re looking for the most discerning members of the UK public to join our exclusive luxury research community. Our clients (major global banks and luxury companies) are looking for luxury minded people like yourself to join LuxuryOpinions.com in order to help them better understand the UK’s most affluent consumers”.

 

“discerning” and “luxury minded” are good phrases – used in this case to make me feel special.

“Members of LuxuryOpinions participate in occasional online luxury/wealth surveys in exchange for amazing incentives (up to £100 for a short survey).

On top of that:

  • Earn your first £20 just for signing up today.
  • 100% Privacy protection
  • No marketing / sales, just honest market research”

Sounds too good to be true because of course it’s just a scam.

£20 just for joining – so you have to give bank details for the payment.

OOPS – that would be your bank account emptied.

Don’t be fooled by wonderful offers – they are always a con.

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