Ed Earns

You have to do better than that you Paypal scammers!

This is the second time that I received an email from somebody who was claiming that they’re from PAYPAL, telling me to update my records to protect my account. I checked my Yahoo email one morning and got this message below telling me that my account will be suspended on September 20 in case I don’t update my records.

I am more vigilant in detecting these Paypal Scams but there are still a lot who are not aware to distinguish the fake ones from the real ones. That’s why I took the time to create this blog entry to help out and spread the news on How to detect Paypal Email Scams. I’ve had issues before because somebody hacked my Paypal account but when it was resolved, I was really glad.

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Notice the “To” and “From” fields, it didn’t even put my actual email and their email address is completely a hoax! tp-verify@accouts.net??? Is it even an email at all? I wouldn’t want to use ‘accouts.net’ as an email. Sheesh.

This Paypal scam update told me to update my information by clicking on the link that was written down. They even used a Paypal link to direct it to the page. When I opened the page up, it had a different link altogether! Haha, another trick in the bag that got busted!

I tried to type in some details on the page provided just for the heck of it. You have to give it to them though, it was a fair attempt to imitate the actual feel of the Paypal homepage. They even included some common links that we usually see when we sign in to Paypal as well as a picture of the paypal advertisement.

Upon closer inspection though, I found out that the links for the “Home”, “Personal”, “Business” etc. as well as the footer links were not click-able! My mouse would just treat those links as actual pictures! Except for the Account log-in section, all the other information are illegitimate!

So I typed in a dummy (with a curse) account and password to see where it would lead me to.

When I clicked on “Log In”, it gave me another fake Paypal page that told me to write some more pertinent information. Wow, so many details that they need. Even if they did not ask for my credit card number, enough was already needed to steal my identity and access my Paypal account.

I typed in some more fake information and hit “Enter” to see where the Paypal scam would lead me to.

Alas, filling out all the information, it now directed me to one of the legit Paypal sites! Hmmm. Very funny indeed. I could tell the distinction because of the link which now had an “https” and the domain is from Paypal.com itself.

I could now click on the actual links (Home, Personal, Business etc.) and all seemed normal already. The only problem is that those Paypal scammers/losers have already gotten your information and you would be saying goodbye to your account sooner than later.

I hate these Paypal scammers. People like me are trying to make some decent income and are very thankful for services like Paypal to easily transact business with different people but there are just those scams and fakes that really get into my nerve.

We are glad that we can easily transact with other people using these legitimate platforms but it’s really sad that there are people who don’t have anything better to do but steal your identity and crack you up.

I better report this to the proper people first before an innocent victim falls prey to these losers.

I bought this site’s domain at 3ix.com. One of the biggest reasons is because the price is just a dollar per month. I can’t find any web-hosting service that’s cheaper. Also, because the person who referred me to buy a package at their site is a colleague whom I trust when it comes to computers. I’m still learning my ropes in creating this website. But I’m glad I’m learning.

From edearns.blogspot.com, it’s now edearns.com.

Aside from the hosting service, I also paid for the domain name. So all in all, I paid about 24 bucks just to get this site for a year. Considering the amount that I earned, last year, I gladly paid the amount with high hopes that I’ll be able to recover the money soon.

I had a bit of a time too on how I was able to set this site up since there was a bit of a problem with the folders maybe. I’ll be blogging about it next time. For now, the service of 3ix.com is getting better. Although you can’t expect much since they only have chat technical support, it would already suffice for me.

Get a 3ix.com domain for one dollar per month. I don’t have much files that I need to upload so you don’t have to pay for much. I actually got what I asked for. Besides, this site doesn’t really have that much traffic so the deal is really okay for beginners like me.

I just realized that it’s already been a year since I started blogging back again to earn money and now that I found this out, I have to give a recap on the past year on how much in total I’ve earned through the different programs I’ve signed my website and then some other sites out.

These are my earnings during the year using soloflighted.com

These are my earnings in dollars for my site and then some.

In totality for the year, here’re my earnings.

I’m actually in a total shock that I’ve earned that much in a span of a year. But I’m equally in shock in locating where this amount has gone off. hehe. Of course, there are bills and other expenses. But I’m happy cause I didn’t expect this much to come to me.

I have 4 blogs to maintain, two have their own domain and two are free blogger accounts. I don’t earn as much in those blogger accounts but the domains are really vital.

For now, I’m planning to get another domain. hehe.

I bought a domain already. But it’s a domain for a personal blog that I’m not publicizing much. The reason why I bought one is because of some certain limitations of having a just a blogger or a Wordpress account.

Here’s what happened. I created a personal blog in Wordpress. I posted some entries until it reached a certain number of posts and I made sure that it would be ready to get accepted by paid post sites. I signed up for some accounts already; some sites approved my blog, some didn’t because it’s not yet ranked. But there was one paid post site that informed me that they wouldn’t accept that Wordpress account because Wordpressdoesn’t allow paid posts in its site. My eyes became wide open at that time, being dumbfounded. And I thought Wordpress was all that. According to the TOS (Terms of Service), they really don’t allow paid posts. So I resulted to just buying my own domain and host, that’s what you get for not reading. sheesh.

Because I didn’t want to move all my entries to another account like blogger/blogspot that allows paid posts (since I also have two other accounts here, edearns.blogspot.com and edsnaps.blogspot.com, I suddenly bought a site already. That was the driving factor for leading me to getting my own domain.

Other factors that are still important are that paid post sites would give priority to those sites that have their own domain. So, even if your free blogger account gets approved, advertisers would still hire you if your blog is worthy. It’s just that they’d give more importance to those who aren’t hosted to a free account.

Also, since I didn’t know how to set up my own site. Because of this, I’m able to understand the concept of FTP servers and PHP permissions and plug-ins. This will add to my credibility since I have encountered the many frustrations of building a site; especially that I’m not a technical person. I just like to learn a lot so I won’t look like a fool when people ask me questions on how I did what and where.

In the mean time, just to clarify things, you can still use a free blogger account (I guess blogspot would still be the best choice). As for me, I have to deal with some paid post sites that I’ve already created tasks for. I hope it wouldn’t be back to the drawing board.created tasks for and see how to manage this predicament.

At least the hosting isn’t that expensive, actually it’s quite cheap for me. I don’t even know how to compare it with other hosting services out there. But I got this data from a colleague at work who’s credibility I don’t have any question about. So I tried this host out for myself. If ever you’re interested, you can click the banner below which serves as my referral bonus if some of you might want to purchase an account. I bought the host for a dollar a month, their most affordable package.

This is my first time to create a website, purchase a domain, look up for a host. I’ve created the site already and for a non-techno geek who only knows basic HTML, I’m really having one helluva time understanding the different concepts and codes, I just realized right now how to use FTP. sheesh.

Will be blogging more, once my other site is all set-up. I’ll maybe discuss about the importance of having your own domain. As for now, I’m trying to stay awake and hope that my brain can still catch up.