It happened after the Indian ocean tsunami and after Hurricane Katrina. It’s happening again with the earthquake in Haiti that has killed tens of thousands and left hundreds of thousands injured, homeless, hungry or without medical treatment: Scammers in Nigeria and elsewhere are stealing money meant for victims of the disaster.
If you think there [...]
Entries from January 2010
Haiti disaster attracts Nigerian scammers
January 16th, 2010 · 10 Comments
Broken link suggestion spam, a new twist on link exchange spam
January 15th, 2010 · 8 Comments
Since Google ranks sites primarily by how many other pages and sites link to them, unethical people have been trying to boost their site rankings by tricking others into creating links to them.
Link exchange spam, i.e. unsolicited offers to reciprocally create links to each other’s sites, has been around for many years. Recently I [...]
Tags: Uncategorized · spam
RCA Airnergy looks like a hoax
January 14th, 2010 · 4 Comments
Gizmodo reported about a Gadget shown at CES 2010 that supposedly harvests energy from a wireless hotspot. The “RCA Airnergy WiFi Hotspot Power Harvester” consists of a small battery, a USB connector and some circuitry that is supposed to convert wireless signals into DC power to top up the battery. The gadget can then be [...]
Tags: Computers · electricity · electronics · energy