September 20, 2020

My Apple ID Is Locked!

Brian Online Scams Apple, phishing, Scam 10 Comments

Well folks, it appears My Apple ID is locked! I received an email from Apple that says they will lock my account if I don’t respond in 24 hours because of suspicious activity from Nigeria. The thing is, I received this email back on September 1st and so my account is definitely locked!

Wait a minute! If it’s locked, how come I was able to download Apple’s latest version of IOS on to my iPhone? Also, why was I able to purchase and download a song yesterday? It looks like this is a case of yet another Phishing Scam! Did I fall for it and click the link on the inside of the email? Are there red flags that give this email away as to being a phishing scam? I’ll take a look at that and more, below. You can also check out one of my most recent articles regarding an Amazon phishing email that I received a little while back.

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September 19, 2020

How To Sell Headphones Online

Brian Wealthy Affiliate Affiliate, Headphones, Profitable 4 Comments

I’ve recently started getting back into my series where you can learn to create an online business in a lot of different niches. My most recent one was about how to make money selling ebooks online. I took a look at places that sell a lot of ebooks online such as Amazon and how you can make money from that either by creating your own ebooks or selling them as an affiliate.

Today I want to talk about how to sell headphones online. We’ll be taking a look at how much the prices are and where headphones are selling online, what problems need to be solved in the headphones niche, how to tell if it will be profitable, and what you need to do to start earning money. I’ll also tell you the best place online that will teach how to do all of these things and put it all together so that you can create a profitable online business in this niche or any niche.

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September 18, 2020

My Amazon Account Has Been Locked!

Brian Online Scams Amazon, phishing, Scams 6 Comments

Back in August, I was going through my emails when I saw the title of an email that said my Amazon account has been locked. Of course when you read something like that, panic starts to set in because if you’re like me, you use Amazon quite a bit to order things and so when you see such an email, you wonder what has happened to cause your Amazon account to be locked.

The next thing you do is open the email and see a very convincing message of why your Amazon account was locked and what you can do to fix it. If you get a message like this, your impulse is to click the link in the email and go to what looks like the Amazon site and then start to type in your log in credentials. What I will tell you is that you DON’T want to do that! It’s a scam and one I will go over in full and tell you how to avoid becoming a victim of this Amazon scam making the rounds.

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September 17, 2020

How To Make Money Selling Ebooks

Brian Wealthy Affiliate Ebooks, Passive Income, Wealthy Affiliate 4 Comments

It has been awhile since I’ve last talked about items or products that you can make money online with. In fact, the last one that I did was about selling printers online and if it can be a lucrative niche. I talked about how to properly research that niche, determine which products are the best ones to review and promote, and how you can go about creating a website centered around it.

Today I’m going to be talking about something very similar, but I thought I would talk about ebooks. I want to show you how to make money selling ebooks and I actually sold one this year for the first time. There are a lot of different ebooks out there, but there are people who are actually making pretty good income from selling them online.

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September 16, 2020

Covid 19 Online Scams and How To Spot Them

Brian Online Scams Coronavirus, FTC, Scams 0 Comments

Phishing scams are very prevalent these days and I’ve been talking a lot about them. I recently talked about a pair Apple ID phishing scams I received in my email’s inbox which you can read about here. What made those emails very dangerous is that they came with attachments that the scammers wanted you to download.

The bad thing about downloading attachments from emails like that is they usually contain viruses or malware designed to either damage your computer or spy on your log in information from anything such as your bank, to PayPal, or even to Apple and then they can gain access to those things causing financial damage or worse.

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