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 [...]
Posted: 30 October, 2006 in Consumer, Internet & PC.
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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 [...]
Posted: 23 October, 2006 in Consumer.
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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 [...]
Posted: 21 October, 2006 in Consumer, Internet & PC.
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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 [...]
Posted: 19 October, 2006 in Internet & PC.
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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 [...]
Posted: 9 October, 2006 in Consumer.
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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 [...]
Posted: 4 October, 2006 in Consumer.
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