LoLo’s safe for work blog about Internet scams, deceptive marketing, spam, spyware, adware, and other asshatery.
5
Sep
That’s right kiddos, “Pump and Dump” is used to describe more than the ageless mating practice enjoyed by alpha males. It’s also used to describe a form of Microcap stock fraud. In both scenarios: people are sold a dream, fucked, and then left standing there with sad looks on their faces.
On Sunday afternoon I […]
27
Jul
Gather around kids, this is gonna be a fun one. I might even get sued, finally. Yay!!1
Recently, on some random news station, I heard about Walmart’s new “Money Card” which is nothing more than a prepaid Visa card. Just like any other such card, it has a website where you can check your balance, add […]
2
Jul
The latest fiasco to rip though MySpace Land screams what everyone already knows: incompetence is the only strong suit of the crew over there. Hopefully, Tom and Chris will get kicked to the curb in October and Rube will completely clean house over there. If not, I guess I’ll see all you on Facebook in […]
18
Jun
A while back I posted a blog entry on MySpace about the new MSPLinks link filtering solution they have been haphazardly rolling out. In it, I said: “MySpace took a huge step in the right direction by hiring an outside company [MarkMonitor] to implement a system to screen outgoing links added to your pages, comments, […]
6
Jun
Imagine being told that you’re sick when you’re not, a quack doctor forcing some symptoms to show, and then being charged for a Cyanide pill to treat your nonexistent ailment. That’s the gist of what’s going down on MySpace at the moment.
This thing is being passed around in the same fashion as the MySpace […]