No, I’m not talking about sites that feature pornography or other subjects that may be considered offensive to large segments of the population. Although the creators of these sites often figure very prominently in the schemes I will be talking about.
Although some old-time internet purists probably still lament any commercialization of the internet whatsoever, I […]
During August of 2004 I purchased a Toshiba Satellite A65-S1662 laptop computer. If you’re in a hurry and don’t feel like reading this entire post, let me save you some time and just advise you to stay clear of Toshiba laptops and buy something better. There now, go back to your research.
My Toshiba laptop performed […]
Good customer service is something that seems to be in very short supply these days. I’ve always valued good customer service and I have a small group of favorite companies I like to do business with because I have had good experiences with them. It’s not a large list, but these companies have earned my […]
I’ve decided I will not being doing business with Dell any more. And probably not for the reasons you might suspect.
Technically, I did not actually buy anything from them and never have. My mother-in-law was recently in need of a new PC and since I have heard good things about Dell desktops in the past, […]
This is not the first time I have written on this particular topic. If spam bothers you as much as it bothers me, then maybe you should start doing what I have been doing for a while. Spam them right back!
As you may know, the vast majority of spam you are likely to receive is […]
Advertising on the Internet is a fact of life. Just like with television, newspapers and magazines, advertising pays the bills or at least helps pay the bills.
Before I had my own web site and saw the view from this side of the fence, I had always hated ads on web sites. At one time I […]
Although they seemed to all but disappear from my e-mail for a while, I am starting to see some new PayPal scams showing up in my e-mail lately.
These low-life crooks are always thinking of new twists to use in their scams to make them appear more realistic. They are still using their old familiar tricks […]
The crap keeps coming in. Instead of posting the entire e-mail messages with all the associated nonsense paragraphs (to fool the spam filters) I am just posing the images that arrived as the real “meat” of these spam-scam penny stock messages.
This first one is a real winner. It is concerning a stock called CWTD (China […]
It’s been a while since I have seen any eBay scam messages in my inbox, but it seems I am beginning to get a new batch of them recently. These scammers are clever and they are always thinking up new and innovative ways to scam people.
This most recent ones attempts to fool victims into believing […]
You can be sure of one thing. If there exists a method for spammers to utilize in order to make sure their crap gets delivered, they will find it!
Naturally, the motivation is money, and as we all know, that’s one powerful motivator.
The latest trick I am seeing them press into service is using spam-bots that […]