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 [...]
The festering undercurrent of sociopathic tendencies that inhabit some human animals is something that has always fascinated and amazed me.
Fortunately, there are only a few whose tendencies manifest themselves in ways that result in physical harm to others. The serial killers, rapists and those that decide to take a gun to work some day and [...]
Have you seen a message that looks a lot like the title of this article as you surf around the Internet? If you have, I hope you did not fall for it, and if you have not, be on the lookout for messages similar to that one and don’t fall for it!
Firstly, these kind of [...]
From lambasting Sony, to praising Google. What’s up with that?
Well, I am hearing rumors from the webmaster and Internet marketing circles that Google is taking aggressive steps to remove web pollution sites from their index. These sites are also known as spam sites and other less-than-flattering names.
I’ve railed against these garbage sites in the past, [...]
There’s a very interesting story that has been circulating on the web for the last few days regarding some software that is being installed on people’s computers by a copy-protected music CD from Sony BMG music.
This particular music CD uses copy-protection technology to limit the number of copies that can be made of the CD [...]
There’s a new kid on the block, and he’s a particularly tough and nasty bully. He goes by the name Root Kit, and he’s changing the rules of the game where malicious programs are concerned.
In the good old days, computer virus creators would create a new virus and unleash it on the world. It wouldn’t [...]
Check out this fascinating article in the Los Angeles Times that takes a look behind the scenes of a Nigerian 419 Scam operation.
There is certainly an abundance of information about these scams in numerous locations around the net, so it is amazing to me that some people are still falling for this stuff.
A month [...]
At times I have to wonder if the major software developers have some kind of secret agreement with the hard disk manufacturers that involves using up as much disk space as possible on customers’ computers.
This is nothing new, but since I recently re-installed the operating system and all the application programs on my PC, it [...]
A while back, I related the story of how I was once foolish enough to respond to a spammer’s e-mail, using my actual e-mail address, and tell him what I thought of his spam.
Well, there was at least one spammer that apparently decided he wanted to pay me back for having the nerve to tell [...]