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Ad Scam: How I Lost My Job and Got Rich. How they know your city!
These advertising scams say that the person lost their job and then found a great way to make money online. They claim to make big money now and will show you how. Many of these ads claim they live in the same city you do (they use IP Address lookup techniques to find the city your computer is located in [see below]). This makes you feel like your town is losing jobs and a "local friend" wants to help you make money. Usually they want you to buy a book or progam that is supposed to explain how they do it.  You won't get rich or everyone would be doing it and you would have heard about it. They are hoping you fall for their sales pitch and buy from a "local friend",  (I'll bet some of their ads may even appear on this web page as we run Google ads here to help pay for this web site. Most Google ads are very credible, however, a few people use Google to advertise their scam web sites). 

For example, your IP Address appears to be: 38.107.191.107

Then using your IP Address above, these people can use that to do a reverse lookup and get your city and put that into their ad, making it look like they are located in your city. Like the dating and job sites do (i.e. Find Jobs in "Your City"). You can verify this by clicking on the website link below and typing in your IP Address listed above to see the information they show for your IP Address:

 Click here to see your IP Address information