I had heard the stories more than once. Someone who has an internet-based business sets up a newsletter or a mailing list to stay in touch with customers and potential customers via e-mail.
After signing up and agreeing to receive the newsletter or mailing list messages, some clueless AOL user receives an e-mail message just as [...]
I am continually amazed at the number of low-life characters that have crawled out from under their rocks to infest the internet with all manners of schemes and scams. I imagine these must be the types of people that would have been pulling telephone scams on old ladies back in the days before the internet.
Beyond [...]
No, I’m not talking about sites that feature pornography or other subjects that may be considered offensive to large segments of the population. Although the creators of these sites often figure very prominently in the schemes I will be talking about.
Although some old-time internet purists probably still lament any commercialization of the internet whatsoever, I [...]
During August of 2004 I purchased a Toshiba Satellite A65-S1662 laptop computer. If you’re in a hurry and don’t feel like reading this entire post, let me save you some time and just advise you to stay clear of Toshiba laptops and buy something better. There now, go back to your research.
My Toshiba laptop performed [...]
Good customer service is something that seems to be in very short supply these days. I’ve always valued good customer service and I have a small group of favorite companies I like to do business with because I have had good experiences with them. It’s not a large list, but these companies have earned my [...]
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 past, [...]
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 is [...]
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 I [...]
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 tricks [...]
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 (China [...]