Archive for October, 2006

More Scam E-Mail Messages

It’s been a while since I have posted any information regarding e-mail scams. Frankly, I just got a bit sick of the same old scams arriving in my inbox all the time and I shut off the e-mail account that was attracting most of it.
Just today one of my other e-mail accounts picked up a […]

It Definitely Pays To Shop Around, Part 2

Here’s another good example of why it pays to shop around. I was quite amazed to see how much I was able to save on auto insurance by switching to another company,
With my oldest son newly licensed this year, I was warned by my insurance agent that the we would be paying more for our […]

UK Lottery Scam E-Mail

Since I have eliminated most of my e-mail addresses that were receiving lots of spam, I was a bit surprised to see a new scam e-mail show up at one of my e-mail addresses.
I have heard about these lottery scams before and have even received a few of them in the past, but this one […]

Protect Yourself From The Scum

Despite all the precautions I take here to remain free of the various nasty things roaming around the net, occasionally I end up having to deal with this crap.
This time one of my kids ended up infecting his PC with a ton of ad-ware. It was placing icons on his desktop and popping up various […]

The Free Stuff Blog

Since the net seems to be full of free offers for various things on a regular basis and new offers are springing up all the time, I thought I would start up a new blog and post free offers that I am aware of.
Most, if not all, of these offers are going to involve doing  […]

BeyondWireless: So Far So Good

The new BeyondWireless phone has been activated and seems to be working fine. The guy in the “porting” department called me as promised to let me know the number from the old TracFone phone has been moved to the new phone. (Bye-bye TracFone, you will not be missed!)
He also activated it for me, which saves […]

Cell Phone Update

After some searching for another prepaid wireless provider that would work in my area, I settled on BeyondWireless. Looks the costs will be pretty close to TracFone, maybe even a little cheaper.
I ordered the phone from their website and received it in a couple of days. Since we wanted to continue using the same phone number […]