Category: Internet & PC

Since I’ve been blabbing about work-at-home scams of late, I thought I’d touch on the subject again at least one more time. I responded to another work-at-home ad on the craigslist.com web site. Again, this one was worded to sound like the person responsible for the ad was actually offering a job. And once again,…

To most Internet users, the word affiliate probably does not mean too terribly much. But whether you know it or not, you’ve been exposed to a lot of affiliate marketing if you spend any time surfing around various web sites. Like most things in life, there are good things and bad things about affiliate marketing.…

It appears that the character behind these strange “SPAMIS” spam messages that have been showing up recently is indeed trolling through domain registration records for e-mail addresses as I suspected. I have received another one of these “SPAMIS” messages on another e-mail address I have used only to register domains, and for no other purpose.…

This week saw the arrival of a run-of-the-mill Bank of America phishing scam and a rather unique eBay phishing scam that I had not seen before. In addition, I received the expected ration of 419 scams, including unoriginal (and uninspiring) works from “Khalid Ali Hassan” and “Saleem Mohd Ahmed Mohd.” These, and other fascinating works…

Not long ago I started receiving what appears to be SPAM e-mail messages from someone claiming to be from an organization called ‘SPAMIS.’ They were not the typical SPAM messages I receive for penny stocks, Viagra or cheap software. These seemed to be geared more towards some kind of ’cause,’ which was not adequately explained,…

I decided to reply to the work-at-home scammer I talked about yesterday and tell her what I thought of her little scheme. I basically told her that no legitimate work-at-home job opening requires the applicant to pay, and that I wondered how she was able to sleep at night, knowing that she is taking advantage…

A few days ago I wrote about work-at-home scams here. After a little thought, I decided to dig up a little dirt on this subject. I turned over a few virtual rocks out on the net, and sure enough, one of the work-at-home scammers crawled out from under one of them. I visited the popular…

I’ve always hated pop-up advertising with a passion. I find it hard to imagine anything more annoying than these pop-up and slide-in (my name for them) ads that jump in front of you when you visit a site. Yes, I do believe in right of web site owners to put anything they want on their…

I tend to read a lot of news on the net. I’m always following links on various sites that link to news stories on other sites. The Drudge Report is one of the best examples of this. I don’t know how many times I have followed a link to a news site (usually a web…

It’s obvious that the web presents a great way to make money for quite a few people. I buy stuff on the web all the time, and have done a lot of business with some of the well-known sites like Amazon.com and Newegg.com. My experience with both these sites has been very good, and I…