How To Grow New Balancing Cells in Your Brain

This scam targets people with a weakened sense of balance. This normally means elderly people.

First of all – there is no such thing as balancing cells.

You learn at school that the semi-circular canals in your inner ear respond when n your head changes orientation and that information passes to the brain and you recognise that your head has changed position.

There are no secrets to this.

The email claims that “Scientists can’t explain why this insane method passes every lab trial…”.

It goes on to say that 856 Vertigo patients were tested and each of them had to eat this weird fruit every morning for 2 weeks.

Supposedly, the results were unbelievable and each participant had an increase of up to 97% in new balancing cells.

I’m sure you’ve heard of this outstanding breakthrough No?

That’s because it’s all made-up.

The scammer wants you to click a link to see proof.

It’s all ridiculous. There are established ways to treat people with recurrent dizziness or vertigo and eating so called ‘weird fruit isn’t going to do it.

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Western Union Repay Scammed Money

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the US Postal Inspection Service have been investigating Western Union who are a wire transfer company.

Western Union is often used by fraudsters as payments through Western Union cannot generally be tracked.

Western Union has admitted to aiding and abetting wire fraud and failure to maintain an effective anti-money-laundering programme and agreed to pay $586 million. That money is now being used by DOJ to give refunds to people who were tricked into using Western Union to pay scammers.

Victims of fraud who paid money to scammers via a Western Union wire transfer between 2004 and 2017 could apply for a refund.

There was a limited refund pot and there were thought to be 100,000s of victims, so not everyone got all of their lost money back.

The refund scheme covers any form of wire transfer fraud which involved making a payment via Western Union, so if you sent money to someone who wasn’t who they said they were, or you didn’t get what you were promised in return for a transfer you made, you can apply for a refund.

The process to get a refund did take years altogether but a great many people received all or part of the money scammed from them.

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The GoDaddy Data Breach

GoDaddy is a strange name for an American Internet company, but they are well known in the US and UK as they provide Internet domain names and web hosting for more than 20 million customers worldwide.

However, the email addresses of up to 1.2 million active and inactive Managed WordPress customers exposed in a data breach.

The company say they identified suspicious activity in the Managed WordPress hosting environment and immediately began an investigation with the help of an IT forensics firm and contacted law enforcement.

They notified the potentially affected customers that their web hosting account credentials had been compromised by an “unauthorized individual” who had gained access to login credentials that meant they could “connect to SSH” on the affected hosting accounts. SSH is an acronym for secure shell, a network protocol used by system administrators to access remote computers. SSH is, as you might imagine then, quite a useful attack vector for hackers.

Which Accounts Are Affected

The GoDaddy email said that the breach is limited only to hosting accounts and did not involve customer accounts or their personal information. It noted that no evidence was found to suggest that any files were modified or added to the affected accounts but fell short of mentioning if files had been viewed or copied. However, all impacted hosting account logins have been reset, and the email contained the procedure customers need to follow in order to regain access to the hosting accounts concerned. GoDaddy has also recommended, “out of an abundance of caution,” that users audit their hosting accounts.

GoDaddy said it will provide free security services to those affected for a year at no charge.

“On April 23, 2020, we identified SSH usernames and passwords had been compromised by an unauthorized individual in our hosting environment. This affected approximately 28,000 customers. We immediately reset these usernames and passwords, removed an authorized SSH file from our platform, and have no indication the individual used our customers’ credentials or modified any customer hosting accounts. The individual did not have access to customers’ main GoDaddy accounts.”

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Stay Safe on Western Union

Western Union is a money transfer system. It is very much favoured by online fraudsters as once you have made a payment in Western Union the money is untraceable and no way can you get it back.

Western Union recognise this problem but there’s little they can do as the whole process is designed to allow for easy money transfer as if paying cash. Untraceable.

Western Union do publish guidance on how to avoid scams and stay safe.

They publish a list of Money Transfer Never-Evers as they call them.

These are:-

  • Never send money to people you haven’t met in person.
  • Never send money to pay for taxes or fees on lottery or prize winnings.
  • Never use a test question as an additional security measure to protect your transaction.
  • Never provide your banking information to people or businesses you don’t know.
  • Never send money in advance to obtain a loan or credit card.
  • Never send money for an emergency situation without verifying that it’s a real emergency.
  • Never send funds from a cheque in your account until it officially clears—which can take weeks.
  • Never send a money transfer to an individual for online purchases.

If you follow those rules then you will be a lot safer using money transactions with Western Union.

There are countless other money transfer businesses of course including TransferWise, Currencies Direct, OFX and Moneygram.

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