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 month [...]
Penny Stock Proof
Talk about timing. This morning I got a heads up on a site called SpamStockTracker.
The guy that put that site together decided to track the performance of the stocks that were being promoted using spam.
I was getting a whole lot of those penny stock spam messages a few months back but they seem [...]
Since I have received a few of these in my snail mail recently, and they always tend to get my dander up, I’ve decided to share this one with the readers of my blog.
Click here to see the postcard
I don’t normally get so emotional about junk mail (SPAM is another matter!), but this kind of [...]
At times I have to wonder if the major software developers have some kind of secret agreement with the hard disk manufacturers that involves using up as much disk space as possible on customers’ computers.
This is nothing new, but since I recently re-installed the operating system and all the application programs on my PC, it [...]
A while back, I related the story of how I was once foolish enough to respond to a spammer’s e-mail, using my actual e-mail address, and tell him what I thought of his spam.
Well, there was at least one spammer that apparently decided he wanted to pay me back for having the nerve to tell [...]
Most people who are active on the Internet have probably heard terms like spyware, adware, and perhaps even malware. These are all terms used to describe software that invades people’s computers for the purposes of making money for someone else.
These program are designed to invade a victim’s computer without the owner’s knowledge and can be [...]