Category: Internet & PC
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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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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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More Penny Stock Pump And Dump
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…
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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…
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There Are Some Things I Will Never Understand
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…
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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…
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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…
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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…