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Australian business operators are being targetted by scammers with fake Yellow Pages advertising faxes.  If you have been approached and are worried about the legitimacy you should ring Yellow Pages on 13 23 78 to report it.  From my own personal experience, Yellow Pages always works through their sales people on the phone and in person.

A couple of things for you to look for on the fake fax – the logo is upside down and there is a UK address at the bottom of the sheet.

Some addresses they claim they working with:

yellowpage-sydney.com
yellowpage-queensland.com
yellowpage-tasmania.com
yellowpage-perth.com
yellowpage-melbourne.com
yellowpage-westernaustralia.com
yellowpage-victoria.com
yellowpage-southaustralia.com
yellowpage-nsw.com

Tags: Advertising, Scam Warning by Kathie Thomas
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Do you spend considerable time trying to stop spammers joining your forum? Or do you simply just let them join and then ban them on their first spam message?

It’s hard to know which way to go.  Either way, there is time spent on filtering these online pests.

I recently came across a site called Stop Forum Spam and you can enter the ip address of a new member to see if that same person has been registering with multiple forums over a short period of time. I’ve found it’s taken the guesswork out for me and I can ban them straight off. I usually include an email message with the rejection message with any I’m not sure about banning, i.e. if there’s not sufficient evidence that they might be a spammer, just so I’m not rejecting anyone genuine, but for the most part, it helps me determine the spammers from genuine members.

Tags: Forums by Kathie Thomas
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