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Some Generic Ranting & Raving Edition #90 — February 2, 2007 Spam Scams In the last month I have seen an escalation in the amount of spam I receive. The two main culprits advertise pills to help enlarge my penis or offer anonymous stock tips to help enlarge my net worth. I always trash these emails, but not everyone does. There are obviously enough responders to keep these scams profitable — and my mailbox filling up with crap every day. These scammers lure that 2% of humanity whose need and greed won't allow them to do the right thing, which is NOTHING. Did I Say $2.00? — I Meant $0.07! As a reality check, I kept an email touting Quantex as a stock that would skyrocket on February 2, 2007. Below is a link to an article I scavenged for the outcome of this supposed windfall. As it turns out: The stock has not reached $2, or any other spam-fuelled target, but it did rise seven cents on Thursday's news to close at 42 cents. If the stock were to reach $2 as the spammers predict, the market would be assigning a value of $38.2-million to a stock with no audited results and only four news releases in the past year. Quantex has never filed any audited financial results that could verify revenue claims it has made in news releases, and Mr. Baergen did not say exactly when he plans to issue any. My advice? If you want to get rich, start a company, incorporate, go public and then start an email campaign to make everyone buy your stock so you can sell your own shares for whatever the lemming market is willing to pay for it. NEXT! Hey Kids — Who Wants A Pez? And then there are the spammers who sell presciption drugs. Let's get real: if someone is willing to use any means possible to get an email to you, including lying about the sender's name, email address, and the intent of their email by using subject lines that trick you into reading it ie. "your order has been confirmed" - "in regard to your question," etc., then what would keep them from taking your money and sending you fake prescription drugs, or nothing at all? And yet, we still act surprised, don't we? "Wow, I didn't see that coming!" And again, need and greed — the more inadequate we feel, and the poorer or stingier we are, the more we may risk that some anonymous, lying scumbag without a legitimate website is going to help us out of the goodness of their selfish, scheming heart. Not a chance... It freaks me out that people have actually lost their money this way. And, that there are a whole bunch of people who checked the stock quotes today and are hoping that Monday will bring the payoff they were promised. If you're one of those people, buy my book, Reality Check, instead. It's a lot cheaper, and you won't get cheated. It's definitely an investment that's worth more than what you'll pay for it! Words, Words, Words. If anyone wants to see what I've been up to, I've introduced a new section to my website entitled, "words." This is one of those "long time coming" projects that usually gets worked on every leap year, or so. Click here to have a look. It's something that will grow in time, without the use of pills and suction pumps, using just my imagination and a lot of tapping on my keyboard. I still have a million things to say, really, but I don't believe in torture. You are free to go. See you next month, Subscribe to free newsletter
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