Category: Consumer
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More Deceptive Sleaze Bag Mailings
I got this one a while ago and it ended up in my shredder pile for a month or so. Since I never throw away anything intact with my name or address on it, I usually throw incoming junk mail into a pile that is destined for the shredder the next time I get around…
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National Awards Commission Weasels Try To Separate Me From My Money
The latest sleazy sweepstakes offer to arrive at my home via U.S. Mail is from an outfit calling themselves ‘National Awards Commission.’ They list a return address of P.O. Box 219800, Kansas City, MO 64121-9800. As you can see their deception starts with their name, as they are obviously using a name like that to…
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Penny Stock Crap Flood Continutes
They really are pumping PPTL up like crazy. Some scumbags(s) must really need to unload a boatload of this stock in a big way. I received four seperate spam messages on this stock yesterday, and those are just the ones that made it through the spam filters, so I suspect there were probably more that…
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No More Dell For Me
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…
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Hate Spam? Spam them right back!
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…
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Beware of Pink Sleaze From Pat Haines At N.M.E.
As you can see from the pictures below, I recently received an ‘Important Delivery Letter’ with an ‘Official Notice’ in the mail. I am a skeptical person and always suspect that there is more to the story when I see something like this. There is, however, that little nagging doubt in the back of my…
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Internet Advertising — Now You’ve Just Gone Too Far!
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…
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Latest PayPal E-Mail Scams
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…
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New eBay Scam Messages
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…
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Those Incredible Relentless Spammers
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…