Bookworm on Jan 10 2010 | Filed under: Crime and punishment
By now, all people, young and old, know better than to give their credit card information out over the phone. The thieves, knowing that this well has gone dry, have a new approach, which has them conning you into giving out the card security number. Although this approach has been around for at least seven [...]
Bookworm on Nov 22 2009 | Filed under: Climate change, Media matters
From The Weekly Standard:
With the release of hundreds of emails by scientists advocates of global warming showing obvious and entirely inappropriate collusion by the authors — including attempts to suppress dissent, to punish journals that publish peer-reviewed studies casting doubt on global warming, and to manipulate data to bolster their own arguments — even the [...]
Bookworm on Apr 23 2008 | Filed under: Uncategorized
ExPreacherman sent along to me a warning about a credit card scam that’s a bit more sophisticated than the usual scam, because the victim is never asked to provide a credit card number. Instead, it appears that, by trolling garbage cans, the scammers get hold of copies of old credit card statements, so they already [...]
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