Consumer Karma

Category: Consumer

  • Penny Stock Spam Mini Flood

    I am continuing to receive penny stock scam-spam messages on a daily basis. Until quite recently I had not received any of these for months. Every so often it seems like the anti-spam tactics that are being used by my ISP break down and the level of spam rises a bit after seeing virtually no…

  • Spring Must Be Pump And Dump Season!

    I have have noticed a substantial increase in the amount of penny stock scam-spam that has been showing up in both my e-mail inbox and my “real” U.S. Mail delivery lately. I guess spring must be the time when the pump-and-dump artists come out from under the rocks they have been hiding under during the…

  • More Stock Spam

    I love posting this crap since it gives people an opportunity to get the real story on this type of spam. For the full story, check out this link. Below is the lastest “pump and dump” stock spam I received (notice the paragraph worth of nonsense at the end of the message which is probably…

  • Another Penny Stock Promotion

    The latest penny stock promotion arrived via U.S. Mail the other day. It’s the same old crap: This stock is going to the moon, yada, yada, yada, blah, blah, blah. This latest stock being pumped is for Life Exchange (LFXG). Who knows? It may be a great company or maybe not. In any event, the…

  • Your computer may be infected with harmful spyware programs!

    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…

  • More Penny Stock Spam

    I got another one of those annoying penny stock spam e-mail messages today. You may be familiar with them. The usual “this stock is going to the moon” crap. You can be be sure of one thing where these messages are concerned: The low-life scumbag that sent it stands to profit from delivering that spam…

  • Good Move, Google!

    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…

  • Bad Move, Sony!

    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…

  • Root Kit: Nasty New Bully In Town

    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…

  • Inside Look At Nigerian 419 Scammers

    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…