Some "Free Stuff" Still Survives Online

Written by Jim Edwards


Way back inrepparttar good old days ofrepparttar 118828 Internet (mid to late 'Nineties), you could find all sorts of free "stuff" online.

Everything from website hosting and email, to software and long distance phone calls came free of charge.

Some ofrepparttar 118829 free services survived, while others used their venture capital to pay forrepparttar 118830 mansions and yachts of their CEO's and then closed up shop within a few months - leaving investors high and dry.

A few free services still exist onrepparttar 118831 'Net in today's more realistic dot-com economy and today rates as good time as any to take a closer look.

** Free Email **

Log on to HotMail.com and get yourself a free email account you can access from anywhere onrepparttar 118832 planet you can find an Internet connection.

HotMail.com and http://mail.Yahoo.com (with twicerepparttar 118833 free storage space of HotMail) rate as two ofrepparttar 118834 most successful and long-lived no cost services left over fromrepparttar 118835 "free" glory days of a few years ago.

** Free File Storage **

http://briefcase.Yahoo.com still ranks asrepparttar 118836 number 1 free remote file storage service onrepparttar 118837 Internet.

Store up to 30 MB of files remotely for access and sharing from any Internet connection anywhere inrepparttar 118838 world.

Instead of lugging floppy disks around between office, home, and laptop, you can store them online in your own password-protected briefcase onrepparttar 118839 Yahoo high-speed servers.

A great way to back up and share files worldwide.

** Free Website Hosting **

Tripod.com allows you to set up your own website absolutely free.

A New Scam Hits The Web

Written by Jim Edwards


~ New Twist On An Old Scam ~

Virtually anyone with an email account eventually receives a message running one ofrepparttar oldest scams inrepparttar 118827 book.

Often referred to asrepparttar 118828 "Nigerian Letter," this scam involves getting a message from someone in a foreign country claiming to need a way to get 21.5 million dollars out ofrepparttar 118829 country (the first country used in this scam was Nigeria, hencerepparttar 118830 scam's name).

He knows that you "are a trustworthy individual" and if you'll just send him your bank account information he will depositrepparttar 118831 money in your account and give you 15% ofrepparttar 118832 deposit.

Of course, after you give up your banking informationrepparttar 118833 scammer empties YOUR account.

Well a new scam has spawned to take advantage of one ofrepparttar 118834 web's most successful and widespread activities - online auctions.

The scammer sends you an email offering to purchase an item you're selling through an online auction or inrepparttar 118835 classified section of your local paper.

They tell you a relative living inrepparttar 118836 area will pick uprepparttar 118837 goods, however, whenrepparttar 118838 check arrives, it's made out for more thanrepparttar 118839 agreed price (often thousands more).

The bidder asks you to refundrepparttar 118840 difference and keep a percentage for your "trouble."

Of courserepparttar 118841 check is forged and, if you refundrepparttar 118842 difference, you can kiss your money goodbye.

Moral ofrepparttar 118843 story: free money is only free forrepparttar 118844 person who steals it from you!

~ The Coming Storm Over DVDs ~

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