Moments ago I received a nasty new eBay phishing scam message in my e-mail. I wanted to post this right away and try to get the information out there on this scam as soon as possible. This one claims to be a message from a fellow eBay member called ‘cdaniel’ and makes claims about someone…

I’m always admonishing my readers to set up a ‘throw-away’ e-mail address if they are planning to send any ‘friendly comments’ to spammers or sign up for newsletters or other services on the net that require an e-mail address. With a throw-away e-mail address, that you can get free from many places like Yahoo! or…

If you own any Internet domain names, chances are very good that you have seen one of these letters show up in your mailbox (your ‘real’ mailbox, not e-mail). I have received these letters for many of my domains over the past year or so. I would not go as far as calling this a…

I can see that there is still at least one mentally disturbed spammer out there who continues to fool himself by believing that his pathetic attempts to attack me with e-mail viruses is going to have some effect. Yesterday I received a fresh batch of e-mail messages with virus-infected attachments. I am also seeing some…

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…