Welcome to our 25th Carnival of Fraud. Don’t forget to get in your submission for next week’s carnival.

Weboma discusses SiteAdvisor, a service from McAfee that supposedly analyzes websites and tells you how safe they are. The writer thinks that eventually all the major search engines will rely on SiteAdvisor to help determine website rankings.

Laura Ricci questions whether your reputation could cost you sales. Would you want your company associated with the likes of Enron?

Wisebread demonstrates for us some of the common scams that could cost you money. You might not have heard of some of these, such as a waitress scanning your credit card in a special skimmer that captures all your data.

SoxFirst discusses the link between fraud and political lobbying.

Matt Paulson discusses the problem with PayPal, which has become a widely popular way to pay people. It appears that the things PayPal touts, such as “seller protection”, offer little real relief to consumers who have problem transactions.

And my contribution to this week’s carnival… a little discussion of blog fraud. There are scam artists out there who make a living ripping of blog posts from other people. This may not describe the person who ripped of the writings in question, but what the blog owner did is certainly unethical.