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HIGHEST SCORE WINNER I remembered it all happened in January of 2007. I had been wanting to buy a notebook computer for college use so I had been looking for one on sale on the Internet, and on one evening, I found this fantastic notebook that I really liked on Froogle.c... | Score: 1677 \ 3160 Views \ 80 Reviews |
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MOST VIRAL WINNER “Guitar HERO? Or Guitar ZERO?” Once upon a time, I had a sudden urge to play the guitar. I had dreams of going to parties and being the guy who got things rocking by playing some Clapton tunes. I had dreams of putting together a song and singing it f... | Score: 25464 \ 47517 Views \ 1638 Reviews |
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“Guitar HERO? Or Guitar ZERO?” Once upon a time, I had a sudden urge to play the guitar. I had dreams of going to parties and being the guy who got things rocking by playing some Clapton tunes. I had dreams of putting together a song and singing it f... | Rank 1 \ Score: 25464 \ 47515 Views \ 1638 Reviews | View Entry |
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Submitted by Daya81 on 5/22/2008 12:31 AM PT | Rank 2 \ Score: 5460 \ 7235 Views \ 460 Reviews | View Entry |
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Like any other college student, the weekend means freedom. Freedom from 18 hours of classes and 15 hours of studying during the week. Freedom from professors with their monotone voices and repeating the same things we were already forced to read in... | Rank 3 \ Score: 3735 \ 2869 Views \ 318 Reviews | View Entry |
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Dear Brickfish commnity,In December, 8 other students and I purchased round-trip tickets from San Diego, CA to Accra, Ghana departing July 10th from lastminutefare.net representative Michelle Shaw. This is for a volunteer trip we are all taking throu... | Rank 4 \ Score: 3526 \ 4484 Views \ 97 Reviews | View Entry |
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As a person that loves to check my e-mail, I have received many internet fraud websites. I remember the first one that I had received; it stated that I had just won one million European pounds. I was so excited that I wrote done the phone number, bou... | Rank 5 \ Score: 2966 \ 6788 Views \ 225 Reviews | View Entry |
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If you read this, and you think MAKING MONEY ONLINE is possible, think again, you will save your self from problems. This is funny because I just got out of a dispute with Process at Home. Let me start off by saying this was a $190.00 investment. You... | Rank 6 \ Score: 2828 \ 3501 Views \ 333 Reviews | View Entry |
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Being a college student, you try to get as much money as you can for your textbooks, knowing that the book store will give you half your money back or less. Knowing this, I decided I would try one of the biggest internet social sites: Facebook. Facbo... Submitted by nc819ec on 6/19/2008 12:15 PM PT | Rank 7 \ Score: 2219 \ 2070 Views \ 18 Reviews | View Entry |
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I remembered it all happened in January of 2007. I had been wanting to buy a notebook computer for college use so I had been looking for one on sale on the Internet, and on one evening, I found this fantastic notebook that I really liked on Froogle.c... | Rank 8 \ Score: 1677 \ 3159 Views \ 80 Reviews | View Entry |
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My boyfriend was the first to see this on brickfish and called me right away. I looked and decided this was the perfect topic to right on since I was involved in internet fraud. Well, it all started a couple months back when I was filling out a whole... Submitted by AAMDAG on 5/22/2008 7:24 PM PT | Rank 9 \ Score: 1631 \ 3620 Views \ 219 Reviews | View Entry |
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I used to always pay for everything with cash, but the older I got the more I depended on credit/debit cards. My sister and I had a shared business account which contained the bulk of our money, so we would use the debit card fairly often. It wasn't ... Submitted by Hotaru on 5/29/2008 3:05 PM PT | Rank 10 \ Score: 1513 \ 1455 Views \ 30 Reviews | View Entry |
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I am a working full time student who is currently trying to save up money for school, so i thought i would get a second job as a mystery shopper on the internet on monster.com. So the company sent me money orders, three money orders of 970 dollars e... | Rank 11 \ Score: 1469 \ 2124 Views \ 115 Reviews | View Entry |
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I have bought tons and tons of stuff from ebay, because it is cheaper and you pretty much get what you pay for. I actually was not expecting this one incident to happen. I had decided to buy a blowdryer/straightner for my friend. She had just broken ... Submitted by Classicelfryoko | Rank 12 \ Score: 1195 \ 1863 Views \ 176 Reviews | View Entry |
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Submitted by caines on 6/11/2008 3:14 PM PT | Rank 13 \ Score: 1184 \ 1730 Views \ 50 Reviews | View Entry |
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Makers of fine Genuine Leather goods since 1898…it’s the biggest littlest bag ever! Keeps your items safe and secure…you could pay over $100 for a similar kind of bag but for only $19.95 you can get the Buxton Over the Shoulder Organizer and there’s ... | Rank 14 \ Score: 1055 \ 1417 Views \ 209 Reviews | View Entry |
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YOUR FULL NAMES: [not showing for obvious reasons] YOUR WINNING NUMBERS:2 3 17 22 40 42 YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS: [not showing in case of spammers] TELEPHONE/FAX NUMBERS: [not showing for obvious reasons] YOUR AGE: 17 YOUR COUNTRY: U.S.A. LANGUAGE: Englis... Submitted by yamdiddle on 5/27/2008 3:09 PM PT | Rank 15 \ Score: 983 \ 2570 Views \ 86 Reviews | View Entry |
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Ive been searching the web for months to find a place that can design the seat covers for my car perfectly. When I finally found the place, I was ecstatic to also find out that they came with free car floor mats. I had measured the seats over and o... | Rank 16 \ Score: 890 \ 1801 Views \ 90 Reviews | View Entry |
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I was looking for ways to make money from home and i didn't want anything that i had to buy or pay and i found a great opportunity or so i though at the time at craigslist. It was simple, the lady lived overseas or so she said and she needed someone ... | Rank 17 \ Score: 881 \ 1908 Views \ 64 Reviews | View Entry |
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Submitted by t71106 on 5/15/2008 1:49 PM PT | Rank 18 \ Score: 834 \ 1555 Views \ 97 Reviews | View Entry |
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I was looking for an electronic (techno/trance) music ringtone for my phone. Out of several sites, RingToneJukeBox.com seemed legitimate. I purchased a ringtone for $1.99 and followed the instructions on my phone to download it, but nothing happened ... Submitted by Mainul on 5/18/2008 7:32 PM PT | Rank 19 \ Score: 786 \ 5961 Views \ 41 Reviews | View Entry |
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Now here is the real life story of an internet fraud that should not happen to any person. It is December 15th 2007. The internet is crawling with deals of electronics and, most dominantly, the newest generation of video game systems. Looking for the... Submitted by joplr4430 on 5/24/2008 10:29 PM PT | Rank 20 \ Score: 757 \ 1264 Views \ 40 Reviews | View Entry |
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This is not about eBay or fishing emails, or key-loggers or trojans, this is about something more invasive and much more difficult to control. I was a victim of the TJ Maxx data breach 2005-2006. Of the 45 million debit and credit card numbers stolen... | Rank 21 \ Score: 632 \ 1607 Views \ 58 Reviews | View Entry |
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Just last week I was affected by Internet Fraud via an e-mail and a phishing website. I received an e-mail which appeared to be from pay pal telling me that there was suspicious activity on my pay pal account and immediate action needed to be taken ... Submitted by jad8841 on 5/18/2008 9:39 AM PT | Rank 22 \ Score: 619 \ 1636 Views \ 108 Reviews | View Entry |
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I registered with freecreditreport.com and they totally ripped me off. I got my free credit report and then it tells you to cancel your account, which I then did on-line. They continued charging my credit card account without permission every month. ... | Rank 23 \ Score: 598 \ 1130 Views \ 53 Reviews | View Entry |
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| Rank 24 \ Score: 577 \ 806 Views \ 41 Reviews | View Entry |
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So being the savvy little sports fan that I am decided that it would be a nice investment to go ahead and buy some season tickets for my college football team. They're pretty legit and I know that I could sell them for a profit. If only the right de... | Rank 25 \ Score: 575 \ 1501 Views \ 46 Reviews | View Entry |
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For my occupation I want to be a lawyer. So when I found, what I though to be, this great class for me online I signed right up. The class designed to give you first hand experience with law, so you would know if law school was right for you. The cla... | Rank 26 \ Score: 559 \ 1326 Views \ 40 Reviews | View Entry |
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| Rank 27 \ Score: 527 \ 1693 Views \ 21 Reviews | View Entry |
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When I was younger, my mother decided to use my father's debit card to his bank account online. The internet was relatively a new thing to my parents & to me back then. We had never heard of anyone using the internet to steal your identity or card ... | Rank 28 \ Score: 471 \ 892 Views \ 8 Reviews | View Entry |
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I had a checking account at a local bank. I used the online bill payment, made it quick and easy. I balanced my check book (even when I used my check card). I alway's knew how much I had in the bank. I would check my balance every 2-3 weeks. I never ... | Rank 29 \ Score: 452 \ 881 Views \ 47 Reviews | View Entry |
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It was the beginning of the school year and I had the perfect plan. I had a sub par GPA during my first three years of high school, and felt that if I had any chance of getting into a decent college, I would have to buckle down for the year. I figu... Submitted by Mooba27 on 5/18/2008 12:15 AM PT | Rank 30 \ Score: 445 \ 1227 Views \ 35 Reviews | View Entry |
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I had recently placed a piece of furniture for sale on a popular website, keeping the price low and negotiable and hoping to attract a decent number of views. For the first two to three weeks, I hit a dead end and felt quite a bit disheartened. It di... Submitted by steperl on 5/18/2008 10:39 PM PT | Rank 31 \ Score: 435 \ 1081 Views \ 22 Reviews | View Entry |
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Submitted by hpmeckes on 5/22/2008 5:16 PM PT | Rank 32 \ Score: 425 \ 884 Views \ 20 Reviews | View Entry |
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| Rank 33 \ Score: 399 \ 822 Views \ 31 Reviews | View Entry |
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I'm a track athlete so i decided that this year being my senior year that i would have the best looking spikes on the track team. Therefore i went online and i bought so spike that were lime green and pink from finishline and they send me two left fe... Submitted by Nordian on 5/15/2008 3:48 PM PT | Rank 34 \ Score: 394 \ 848 Views \ 21 Reviews | View Entry |
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Last summer, I went off to college, saying good bye to my family and friends... but most importantly my dog. Dottie was my dalmatian who I had raised since she was a pup and all in all my best friend. I worked throughout highschool at out local Pet... | Rank 35 \ Score: 384 \ 525 Views \ 15 Reviews | View Entry |
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| Rank 36 \ Score: 381 \ 1144 Views \ 9 Reviews | View Entry |
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Smack me and label me naive, but this year I took a chance on Ebay to win a Macbook Air. I begged a seller to sell me the coveted piece of machinery for $1300 (instead of the normal price of $3000), because I need a change from the torture of lugging... Submitted by seuldesir on 6/18/2008 8:13 PM PT | Rank 37 \ Score: 378 \ 478 Views \ 43 Reviews | View Entry |
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| Rank 38 \ Score: 377 \ 1417 Views \ 14 Reviews | View Entry |
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On my 18th birthday, I hurried into the bank and got my own checking account with a debit card. I had an ATM card before but this time I had the mastercard logo and all was well with my new ability to spend! Things were going along nicely until I i... | Rank 39 \ Score: 365 \ 761 Views \ 23 Reviews | View Entry |
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Well to tell you the truth this isn't too long ago...so i know i know, i should have thought about it before you start to read it...Well, I am currently looking DESPERATELY for a job preferably with the city, state, goverment, etc that could help me ... | Rank 40 \ Score: 355 \ 742 Views \ 19 Reviews | View Entry |
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| Rank 41 \ Score: 340 \ 792 Views \ 18 Reviews | View Entry |
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Ever wanted to meet someone through MySpace? Jeremiah A* sure did when he saw my profile. But he wasn't brave enough to be himself - because, as it turned out, he had a huge crush on me. So instead of facing rejection, he wanted to stand out. To be S... | Rank 42 \ Score: 327 \ 646 Views \ 18 Reviews | View Entry |
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Cell phones. A teenagers way into everyone else's world. Texting; the most popular way to communicate privately. This privelige was stripped from me. Not from being punished by my parents, not by dropping my phone in water, not by an excessive amo... | Rank 43 \ Score: 326 \ 787 Views \ 21 Reviews | View Entry |
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I have a story to share about Internet Fraud. This happened to me about a year ago through Pay Pal. I received an email from Pay Pal asking me to update my credit card information because it had expired or was due to expire. I knew that I just rec... | Rank 44 \ Score: 320 \ 672 Views \ 18 Reviews | View Entry |
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Being the geeky girl I am, I ordered the ENTIRE SERIES of Buffy the Vampire Slayer from Ebay. It was worth a couple hundred dollars. I won the bid, and then POOF , the seller was gone and I couldn't get back my money. I never have trusted Ebay since. Submitted by chirichan on 5/17/2008 5:01 PM PT | Rank 45 \ Score: 311 \ 875 Views \ 16 Reviews | View Entry |
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There comes a time in every highschool senior's life when they decide they just HAVE to miss a day of school and go off and be a shenanigan. Well, I suppose this could happen quite often, but it is the infamous senior skip day to which I am referrin... | Rank 46 \ Score: 309 \ 730 Views \ 16 Reviews | View Entry |
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It started innocently enough... But how it ended is an entirely different story. I was a college freshman. I had recently returned from winter break and decided it was time to sell my books from first semester. The only book I really had to sell was ... Submitted by DotsCHIC on 6/1/2008 11:51 PM PT | Rank 47 \ Score: 303 \ 591 Views \ 24 Reviews | View Entry |
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I have not yet fallen for a scam but people have tried to scam me often. Because it does happen so regularly, I have taken to playing a little game with internet scammers. I like to see if I can scare them into appoligizing or at least never contacti... Submitted by Astianyx on 5/19/2008 11:03 AM PT | Rank 48 \ Score: 297 \ 697 Views \ 10 Reviews | View Entry |
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| Reviews: | 6,565 |
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