Is it just me or does it seem like a lot of companies are pulling fees out of their collective asses these days? It’s mostly the airlines, but there are other companies doing it like the folks at Xcel Energy in Colorado who have decided that they are going to charge the homeowners who have . . . → Read More: Electric company to charge solar panel users for not using company’s power. (#Blogathon)
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I’ve not seen this one before, but I’ve heard of it. Scammers set up a booth in a local mall that purports to be selling chances at winning fabulous prizes while raising money for a charity, but what they’re really selling are tickets to the poor house. Check it: As always it’s pays to be . . . → Read More: Watch out for the Scratch Card Scam. There’s been a lot of articles over on The Consumerist about ATM skimming, how it’s done, and how you can protect yourself. Today they linked to a clip from a UK show called The Real Hustle that lays out exactly how the scam is done. I’m not sure if the increase in the number of . . . → Read More: How ATM skimming is done. Who is Kevin Trudeau? He’s the “alternative medicine” slimeball who sells books full of miracle cures that the Powers That Be supposedly hope you’ll never find out about. With titles like Natural Cures “They” Don’t Want You to Know About and The Weight Loss Cure “They” Don’t Want You to Know About this asshole has . . . → Read More: The Contempt of Court judgment Kevin Trudeau Doesn’t Want You to Know About! There may be a new credit card scam making the rounds that involves very small charges to lots of people: Several Internet complaint boards are filled with comments from credit card customers from coast to coast who have noticed a mysterious charge for about 25 cents on their statements. The charge shows up on statements . . . → Read More: New scam to steal money from lots of people in very small amounts. Once a week for the past several weeks or so I’ve been getting phone calls on my cell that start with a recording telling me that my car warranty is about to expire and need to extend it before time runs out. My car’s warranty expired over 6 years ago so right off the bat . . . → Read More: Allied American Warranty refuses to take my number off of their list. Continuing on the topic of delusional True Believers™ brings us to this news item about a Canadian faith healer by the name of Todd Bentley who’s apparently enjoying quite a bit of popularity in Florida. He claims God has given him the power to heal the sick and raise the dead and the overly credulous . . . → Read More: Thousands of idiots believe this Preacher can heal them and raise the dead. I never got around to writing about it, but awhile back word was spreading on the blogs about an amazingly overpriced set of ethernet cables being put out by the folks at Denon that supposedly enhanced audio playback to such a degree that they were selling these cables for a mere $500. No, that’s not . . . → Read More: Best Amazon.com Customer Reviews page EVAR! Did you know that ghosts can’t penetrate glass, cork, or wax seals? I was surprised to learn as much myself, but it must be true because some folks out there are selling Ghost Bottles that they claim contains one ghost of random temperament: Each Ghost is captured from a reported haunted establishment, (house, hotel, ship, . . . → Read More: Making money off the credulous: The Ghost Bottle. The SEB mailbag is becoming quite the resource for entries as of late. This one comes from someone named David L. Ries who stumbled across an entry I wrote back in August of 2003 about the craptastic Philip Stein Teslar Watch. He apparently didn’t like the tone or the conclusion I came to in the . . . → Read More: SEB Mailbag: Another moron defends the Teslar watch, attacks fluoride. |
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