Strangely Perfect

Pacific Webworks / Quad Try and Dodge the Issue Back in 2009 I stumbled upon a negative option scam for which those involved were sued by Google (and folded with an out-of-court settlement) and were prosecuted by Uncle Sam, losing again.  Initially, I was completely unaware of the depths of deception to which these people [...]

Massive Spam Hit Willie R Over the weekend, I received over 600 spams from someone called Willie R (with a number appended to the name) to my gmail account which I now use for my spam-trapping on an old email address that I use for registrations and the like…  See the screenshot of one page [...]

Just Think Media Settles With Google Over Trademark Infringement Last year Jesse Willms threw the lawyer dogs at me which forced me to pull some posts.  I’d been calling him a scammer which was obviously in clear contradiction of his (now public) self-vision as a charitable philanthropist. However yesterday, Google, who had originally sued 50 [...]

WordPress Comment Spam The plague of all blogs is spam, mainly comment spam, by sheer numerical superiority. Q.  Why Do They Do It? A. As a minimum, they do it to open a back-door into your blog that allows the perpetrator to place reverse linkages to another website to increase that website’s visibility in search [...]

Introduction Two items on today’s news demonstrated the vast contrasts in our humanity. Stardust probe finds ‘subdued’ comet crater & Japan halts whale hunt after chase by protesters. Our Absolute Ingenuity and Progress The absolute ingenuity of us humans and how far we have come since our cave-dwelling days is supremely demonstrated by the return [...]

Free Windows Defragmenter Search Take this for a scam and a half way of fixing the Google search results! Today I was looking for an old defrag program, but couldn’t remember the name – so I went to Google.  That’s the screenshot on the right. The second result looked promising.  After all, the text says, [...]

Who Is Robert Allen? For an answer to this, see these posts and follow up comments: Robert G Allen, Grants, and a Credit Card Slimeball eBay Success System – Blatant Lie What? No Google! Use Robert Allen Instead! These posts are all related either by Robert Allen and/or the email and websites that advertise products [...]

Introduction There’s a well-known adage that says, Don’t believe everything you read in the papers (Point 1) Another, (which is derived from the mantra of the old UK stock market) goes like, An Englishman’s word is his bond (Point 2) Make what you want of them, but many people still go by this, replacing “An [...]

Not an advert for a male enhancement cream …but more a statement of fact….  yes indeedy, Sony, inventors of the 3.5″ floppy disc, have announced that it’s the end of the production line for them. Sony Ends Floppy Production I for one, have spent many a wasted hour listening to the click-click-click as they struggle [...]

For no reason …other than a try-out and also the current anti-spam plugins miss the odd bit of comment spam, I’ve now switched off TanTanNoodles’ Spam filter and am giving WP-SpamFree another try plus another plugin, AVH.  I’ve left Akismet running regardless. WP-SpamFree This now promises a lot, so it’s worth another shot.  Two years [...]

Arnold Stang Dies The voice of Top Cat, the excellent cartoon series of my childhood has died at a good old age. He’s also in one of my favourite bits from the film “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.”  About half-way through the clip below he’s one of the two gas station attendants who [...]

These screen-shot pictures describe the route from a Pacific Webworks (PWW) business plug to an example of a teeth-whitening advert.  This route is a common one for internet scammers who make use of a plethora of Fake Blogs and News sites (like here) to further promote their dodgy dealings. In this case, the website template [...]

Interesting info on Jesse Willms and Just Think Media… Now that my Google Alerts’ portfolio has expanded, I’ve seen two jobs advertised at Just Think Media. Somewhat appropriately, they are for a Web Designer and a Legal Assistant!!! See: http://www.simplyhired.ca/job-id/letiz3yi2g/legal-assistant-jobs/ http://www.careerbuilder.ca/CA/JobSeeker/Jobs/JobDetails.aspx?ipath=EXIND&siteid=cbindeed&Job_DID=J3H79V77KRWBHCMVMQZ&cbRecursionCnt=1&cbsid=d60550239da34c8d8d6269760a3acf29-313838380-VM-4 These are the screen-shots below for when the adverts are eventually pulled: Interestingly, and [...]

Introduction Google Alerts are a neat way to keep track of stuff that interests you.  I use it to follow web appearances of the band from my earlier life called Crawling Chaos. Quite often, it’ll pull up web references to pilfering of our copyright material, but that’s the way of the world now. Anyway, here’s [...]