Tag: scams
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Why I don’t buy stuff from door-to-door salesmen
Last week, a guy came to the door. That in itself is a notable occurrence – we rarely leave the house and receive visitors even less. Unless you count the mailman, which I don’t. So, when the guy came to the door with a backpack and lacking the requisite suit, partner, and nametag that says…
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Google America
If you were to take a poll today of approval ratings for Barack Obama, I can guarantee that the number of supporters in this country of our President is far surpassed by the number of people who use Google services on a daily basis. How did this happen? How did we become so complacent? How…
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all part of my elaborate plan…
extra extra update on the twitter fireball scam i wrote about yesterday. apparently twitter fireball was just an elaborate april fool’s day joke. riiiiiiight. it’s really too bad i only took a partial screenshot of the site and didn’t get the PayPal button at the bottom of the page. alas, it’s too late now as…
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f*** you, clown. f*** you
it kind of makes me belligerently angry when people try to make money at someone else’s expense. it could be argued that this describes all commerce, but it’s a different thing when the methods used to make said money involve deception, fake product reviews and false advertising. (you could say that microsoft is guilty of all…
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Scam Alert: “Testers needed to test the Apple iPad” – testitandkeepit.com
i got an email last night sent from a client we did a website for about a year ago inviting me to become a tester for an Apple iPad. actually, i got two emails — one sent to each of my main addresses. The subject line of the email was “Testers needed to test the Apple…
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lightning never strikes twice. unless you’re a spammer.
they say that lightning never strikes the same place twice. that’s a good thing, because if you happened to be an idiot out in a lightning storm holding a weather vane in an open field unlucky enough to get hit once (and walk away), you probably wouldn’t want to be the guy out in a lightning…