Directions for Thursday 4/29/2009

Scam Season
Please grab a WSJ from the back of the room and read the article titles "Scam Season" pg 15 and answer the following questions. Tou may answer the questions on your blog or in a word document and print it.

1. How are cyber criminals savvier today than in the past?

2. The article explains new cellphone crimes. Why do they work so well?

3. Have online scammers tried to rip you off before? Please provide some details.

4. What would you tell people to help them avoid these scams. Provide 2 tips to avoid getting ripped off.

5. Lookstogoodtobetrue.com releases current info about scams. Please read about two current scams and provide a description of how the scam work. CLICK HERE to view current scams.

6. Consumer Web Watch releases the top 10 internet scams every year. For the past 5 years Auction Fraud has been the top scam. Please describe what Auction Fraud is and how it works.
CLICK HERE to visit the site.

Real Estate Intro Activities

Our Next Unit we will be looking at Real Estate Please complete these two tasks and we will discuss Monday in Class

1. Please Read this article and provide an abstract on your blog.

2. Think of 3 different Towns/Cities you would like to live in. Using your web skill locate 3 similar sized houses. Please include the following in your post.

• Price
• Square Footage
• Link to the Listing
• Picture of the house
  
• City Located in (1 house for 3 cities)
• Date Listed If available
  

Car Talk

Please grab a WSJ from the back counter and read the "Driver's Ed" article on page 18. These are tips that can keep your car running longer. After reading the article answer the questions below on your blog. 

Questions

1. Why is it important to read a vehicle owner's manual?

2. How might you be able to increase the life of a cars tires?

Next visit Edmond's (if the site does not load right away hit F5 to refresh the page)to price your car or a car you would like. list the following on your blog

A. A picture of the car

B. The TMV price of the car

C. The pros and con's of the car.

D. One other price of information that you found interesting about your car. 

See more Car Pictures at CarSpace.com

Finance Topics

Topics

Stock Market

Credit Cards

Loans (home,car,student)

Simple Budgets

Economics (graph analysis)

Please provide a list of questions you have about the topics above. post at least four questions.