Fraudulent Charges from Surveymak.org and Receptionistway.com Point to Compromised Card
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Fraudulent Charges from Surveymak.org and Receptionistway.com Appearing on Compromised Credit and Debit Cards

Check your statements carefully, as compromised debit cards and credit cards are being used to steal small-dollar charges by surveymak.org and receptionistway.com. Here’s what to do if your card is stolen or compromised; for example if you find charges from either of surveymak.org or receptionistway.com it’s time to dispute them and to cancel your card (we explain how below).

Read the Georgia Grand Jury Report on Donald Trump Here
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Read the Released Pages of the Georgia Grand Jury Report on Donald Trump Here

Read the just-now released pages from the Georgia grand jury report, and the grand jury’s recommendations from the Georgia Grand Jury’s investigation into Donald Trump, his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, and voter fraud.

How to Contact Amazon Through Customer Service Chat Chatbot
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How to Contact Amazon Through Chat

“Where is the Amazon chat button?” and “How do I contact Amazon customer service through chat?” are questions we get a lot here at the Internet Patrol. Here’s how to contact Amazon through chat, and while at first you will get the Amazon chatbot, if you persevere you will get through to a real person.

Amazon to charge Prime customers $3 per month to keep ads out of movies and tv shows
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Amazon Fresh Raises Free Delivery Threshold from $35 to $150, Tacks on Big Extra Fees

Amazon Fresh, Amazon’s grocery delivery service, has announced that they are raising the amount to get free delivery from, get this, $35 to $150. That’s not a typo. We’re including the full text of the announcement, but the bottom line is that if you don’t spend at least $150 on your Amazon Fresh order, you’re going to incur a delivery fee (they are calling it a “service fee”) of as much as $9.95. And that’s on top of the tip you give to the delivery driver.

Starbucks Raise Number of Rewards Stars (Points) Needed for Basic Rewards the Grinch that Stole Valentine's Day
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Starbucks Raises Number of Reward Stars Points Needed for Rewards Just in Time for Valentine’s Day: Here are the New Requirements

Here are the new number of Starbucks reward points (stars) required for each Starbucks reward level. Starbucks, the Grinch that Stole Valentine’s Day, has just announced that it is raising the number of reward points that you need in the Starbucks app in order to be able to redeem your reward stars, effective February 13th, 2023. They are raising it for absolutely everything except the 25-star reward of customizing your drink.

Trouble when Uploading or Adding Images to Pinterest? Try This!
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Trouble when Uploading or Adding Images to Pinterest? Can’t Get the Create or Publish Button? Try This!

Countless people have encountered trouble when uploading or adding images when creating a Pin on Pinterest. Rather than taking them to or remaining on the Pin creation and editing page so that they can create the Pin and publish the Pin, it takes them to the Pinterest image editing page for that image, with seemingly no way to get back to the main Pin creation screen and publishing screen.

Here's How to Get Rid of That Gawd-Awful Annoying Facebook Comments Popout Pop-Up
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Here’s How to Get Rid of That Gawd-Awful Annoying Facebook Comments Popout Pop-Up

Here’s how to get rid of that incredibly annoying Facebook comments pop-up (more correctly called a Facebook comments “pop out”). Whatever you call it, whenever you click to read or write a comment on Facebook now this hideous, interrupting thing pops the comments out of the main window into its own separate little window smack in the middle of your screen. Our method isn’t ideal, but it does get around that pop-out and keeps your comments flat on the page, where they belong.

New Website for Those at High Risk for Covid Lists "Covid Safe" Medical and Service Providers
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New Website for Those at High Risk for Covid Lists “Covid Safe” Medical and Service Providers

A new website provides listings of “Covid safe” and “Covid cautious” providers for those who are at high risk for catching Covid, such as the immunocompromised, people with asthma, and others who need to or simply want to avoid getting Covid. The Covid Safe Providers website not only lists Covid-safe doctors, Covid-cautious dentists, and the like, but also lists Covid-safe and Covid-cautious service providers such as Covid-safe furnace and air conditioning repair services, home appliance repair, mechanics, and even notary services.

How to Include Search in a Wordpress Menu
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How to Include Search in a WordPress Menu

Here’s how to add a search box to your Wordpress menus. Many Wordpress themes don’t have any native way to add search to a menu; of course if your theme already offers the ability to put a search feature on your menus, that’s awesome, but your theme is in the minority. Why would you want to include a search feature in your menu? Well, you may want to include a search feature on your top menu so that people can easily find it. Or you may want to include a search feature in the menu which is displayed when people visit your site on a mobile device so they don’t have to scroll waaaaay down to find it on a sidebar (which gets moved below the main text in many mobile displays). All of this is possible with what we are going to tell you, and it’s easy!

IRS Reverses Self on $600 Income Reporting Requirement for Paypal, Venmo, CashApp, Etc... for Now
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IRS Reverses Self on 2022 $600 Income Reporting Deadline for Paypal, Venmo, Cash App, Etc… for Now

The IRS has reversed the requirement for Paypal, Venmo, CashApp, etc. to report if you receive more than $600 – for now. Now it starts in 2023. It was just about this time last year we told you how the IRS was requiring Paypal, Venmo, CashApp, Zelle, and other cash payment apps (technically known as third-party settlement organizations, or TPSOs) to file a 1099 for you with the IRS if you received payments totaling more than $600 (it had been $20,000, so that’s quite a substantial drop). Now the IRS has said “Psych! It really starts next year.” So, once again, unless you took in $20,000 or more in 2022, Paypal et al is not required to file a 1099 with the IRS or to issue you a 1099 (nor likely will they).

Amazon discontinues charitable Amazon Smile program
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Amazon Discontinues Charitable ‘Amazon Smile’ Program – We Call Foul

Last evening, without warning, Amazon sent an email to its customers notifying customers that they were discontinuing the AmazonSmile program, saying that “the program has not grown to create the impact that we had originally hoped.” We call foul. We personally know of many smaller charities that counted on Amazon Smile contributions as part of their budget.

How to Add or Remove Background Color of Email Messages in Your Message List in Apple Mail
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How to Add or Remove Background Color of Email Messages in Your Message List in Apple Mail

Here’s how to add and at least as importantly how to remove the background color of email messages in your message list in Apple Mail on your Mac. Let’s say that you want to color code the messages in your inbox or other mailbox on your Mac in Apple Mail, maybe red for email from your boss, yellow for aunt Sally, and green for your kid who’s away at college and always asking for money. Here’s how to do it, and how to undo it.

Read the Full Jan 6 Committee Report Here Courtesy of the Internet Patrol
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Read the Full Jan 6 Committee Report & the Executive Summary Here Courtesy of the Internet Patrol

Last night the January 6th Committee dropped it’s full and final report, allowing the American public to see the full extent of the information they received and the evidence they developed over their nearly 2-year investigation. According to the Committee, “That evidence has led to an overriding and straight-forward conclusion: The central cause of January 6th was one man, former President Donald Trump, who many others followed. None of the events of January 6th would have happened without him.”

LastPass Hack Update: Customer Information Accessed
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LastPass Hack Update: Customer Information Accessed

LastPass, the password storage service, has just revealed that customer information was accessed during the hack of their data that occurred at the end of August 2022. The data was stored with a 3rd-party cloud storage provider. Previously they had said that it was “limited to the LastPass Development environment in which some of our source code and technical information was taken.”

Trying to Change a Google Meet Host to a New Owner or Add a Co-Host and Can't? Try This!
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Trying to Change a Google Meet Host Owner or Add a Google Meet Co-Host? 2 Steps You Need First

Wondering how to change the Google Meet host or a Google meeting co-host but keep getting the “Unable to change event owner” error? It can be crazy-frustrating when trying to transfer a Google Meet meeting to a new owner so they can take ownership of the meeting in Google Meet. Here’s what may be (in fact probably is) going on. If you follow these steps you should be able to transfer ownership of your Google Meet meeting