Gazette reader Bill P. writes:

Dear Dennis,

After reading your ‘eBay and SquareTrade scam’ article alerts [Part 1 | Part 2], it prompted me to write you about a wonderful new anti-scam / anti-phishing toolbar called FraudEliminator Pro. The review over at pcMag.com summed up its features nicely:

‘FraudEliminator Pro is a toolbar for Internet Explorer or Firefox that warns you if the web site you’re visiting is not what it seems. When you visit a known fraudulent site, it will alert you with a popup. It can also alert you to sites with questionable features such as status bar misdirection or URLs that contain IP addresses [typical signs of fraudulent activities].

For every site you visit, [FraudEliminator Pro] displays the country of origin and date the domain was created [crucial information used to determine 'fly by night' scam web sites] … hovering the mouse over this information displays full WHOIS data in a popup window [hint: WHOIS displays information about the web site owner, contact information, etc; if the information is invalid, then it would be wise not to trust the source]. A free version [of FraudEliminator is] also is available with [significantly] less-frequent database updates.’ (Source: pcMag.com)

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Alert: eBay & SquareTrade Scam, Part 3]

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