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'SMARTYPIG' OR 'TRUSTYPIG'? A WEBJACKING STORY

August 14, 2008

Smartypig is a Des Moines-bases "social savings" enterprise, where savers can make their savings accounts visible to friends or family. The idea is to encourage savings through your social support network - sort of like Weight Watchers, but for money.

Trustypig has a website that looks just like Smartypig. Unfortunately, Trustypig is just a ripoff of the Smartypig site by Romanian scammers.

The real site:

The scam site:

Via Brett Trout and Andy Brudtkuhl, who both explain how to fight the ripoff.

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