Stupidity Sublime

2011-03-28T19:47:00.000-07:00

EMAIL SCAMS

2010-11-12T09:08:00.001-08:00

HOLMES&SELLERS ALMOST GOT ME !!

How to Identify and Avoid E-mail Scams

We’ve all gotten them, those annoying e-mails from “doctors” or “executives” claiming to need your help to deposit some vast amount of money. In exchange for doing almost nothing, these e-mails claim you will receive a ridiculously high pay-off.

Most people recognize these e-mails as scams, but scam artists are getting better at duping unsuspecting, good-hearted people.

The sad truth is that every time a world disaster occurs, a scammer is out there devising a plan to make money from the suffering of others. Most recently, scammers, just days after the devastating earthquake in Haiti, were sending out bogus e-mails asking for donations. Never donate money to an organization you haven’t heard of.

Another favorite scam is to claim someone with your last name has died without an heir, leaving millions of dollars behind. Since you share a last name with the deceased, the scammers, who claim to be estate attorneys, apparently figure anyone with the same last name will do to inherit this fortune. All you have to do to get your millions is to pay a small fee, which goes right into the scammers pockets.

The scammers are getting smarter, and because they have been successful, they are likely to continue their quest for more and more sophisticated schemes. For that reason, consumers must keep up to date on their latest methods. One new scheme involves scammers hacking into an e-mail account, accessing your friends’ e-mail addresses, then sending out a bogus e-mail that appears to be from you frantically requesting money because you are stranded in a foreign country with no money. Several people have actually sent money to scammers thinking a close friend was in desperate need.

What do you do with these e-mails? Delete them. They are often easy to recognize, so we suggest they be deleted without even opening them.

The bottom line is that nowadays you must be suspicious of every e-mail you receive that talks about sending or receiving money. The old adage, “if it seems too good to be true it probably is” has never been more relevant.

Because many of these scam artists come from overseas, look for misspellings and grammatical errors in the text. Unless you know the sender, don’t answer and don’t fall for their claims.

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2010-09-17T21:03:00.000-07:00

Pa. man listed dog as dependent in food scam

She will kill herself.

2010-08-12T07:42:00.001-07:00

World's fattest mother receiving death threats

2010-08-12T07:31:00.001-07:00

MY WEBSITE

2010-08-12T07:25:00.000-07:00

Iowa restaurant ticketed for toad-licking chef

Woman wants to be world's fattest

2010-06-11T13:00:00.000-07:00

This must be one of the saddest stories I have ever printed here....Sad that this woman is going to kill herself to get attention.

Check it out.

Woman wants to be world's fattest

2009-10-09T08:06:00.000-07:00

WHERE WERE HER CHILDREN?

2009-09-02T07:23:00.000-07:00

You Honor, I DID IT TO GET AWAY FROM MY WIFE

2009-08-26T18:40:00.000-07:00

Cat Gets High School Diploma

2009-08-16T10:06:00.001-07:00

Here's my ID. Give me all of the money!

Loud YAWN in court....6 months in jail!

Nurse of the year..........NOT!

2009-08-07T07:51:00.001-07:00

Drunken mom lets son, 7, drive

This one I like. Couldn't get a good job with that basket weaving course? Sue them !
Jobless graduate sues her college for $70,000

2009-07-31T17:31:00.000-07:00

MY WEBSITE

2009-07-31T17:28:00.000-07:00

DID ANYONE THINK OF HIDING THE CAR KEYS?

2009-07-22T07:14:00.001-07:00

Tasered man bursts into flames

Woman left grandkids in car to gamble

2009-07-19T17:42:00.001-07:00

Oops! Plane doing loops hits car!

ONLY IN AMERICA

2009-07-19T15:17:00.000-07:00

This is hard to believe. A few days ago a graveyard in the Detroit area donated 2 side by side plots to bury Michael Jackson memorabilia. I guess a bunch of people dropped off stuffed animals and other personal items in memory of Michael Jackson at Hitsville USA (old Motown). So they decided to bury it all in a graveyard, complete with POLICE ESCORTS to escort the junk to the graveyard. The graveyard got publicity as well as the stone carver that made the monument.

ONLY IN AMERICA !

READ ABOUT IT HERE

Dan

2009-07-14T08:41:00.000-07:00

Waisting Time In Court

2009-06-23T21:05:00.000-07:00

Thomas Frazier, 42, was jailed in Flint, Mich., in April after his unpaid child-support tab reached $530,000 (14 children with 13 women). He told the judge that he was only trying "to find someone who would love me for me.

2009-06-16T20:18:00.001-07:00

Parking in your own driveway? Here’s a ticket

2009-06-15T22:40:00.000-07:00

PRO LIFE WEBSITE

2009-06-11T08:05:00.001-07:00

Woman mistakenly junks $1 million mattress

2009-06-08T17:54:00.001-07:00

Parking tickets pile up on van with dead driver

2009-06-03T14:29:00.001-07:00

SUITCASE MADE OF COCAINE?????

2009-05-12T09:14:00.001-07:00

Politics and Religion

She may have lost her earthly crown, but she kept her heavenly crown!

2009-05-12T09:09:00.000-07:00

TEXTING WHILE DRIVING A BUS !!

2009-05-01T20:52:00.000-07:00

2009-04-23T08:14:00.001-07:00

MY WEBSITE

2009-04-23T08:12:00.001-07:00

2009-04-17T21:22:00.001-07:00

The Wrong Way to Get Driving Lessons

2009-04-08T15:12:00.001-07:00

BEER IN CHURCH?

2009-03-26T21:52:00.000-07:00

$38 Cup of Coffee?
The same thing happened to me. Bank charged me $30 penalty because I was 25 cents short on mortgage payment.

Dan

2009-03-24T21:17:00.000-07:00

2 WIVES FOR HIM IN THE SAME APARTMENT BUILDING !!

2009-03-14T07:22:00.000-07:00

Should Windshield Wiper Fluid Be Kept in a Fridge?

2009-02-28T08:23:00.001-08:00

HERO TICKETED FOR JWALKING

2009-02-27T09:36:00.000-08:00

WOMAN TRADES KIDS FOR BIRD???

2009-02-18T05:49:00.001-08:00

Monkeys are Vicious Animals

DARWIN MADE A MONKEY OUT OF YOU

2009-02-17T07:11:00.000-08:00

STUPID THIEVES

2009-02-14T08:24:00.001-08:00

FOREIGNER impostor steals 2002 Corvette

2009-02-06T18:56:00.000-08:00

“Detroit has a huge financial hole to climb out of. It doesn't matter if the workers on one side of the Detroit River are six per cent more efficient than those on the other side; it doesn't make anybody six per cent less broke.”

CLICK HERE TO READ MORE

2009-01-27T19:59:00.000-08:00

Car Crashes Into Church ROOF??????

2009-01-22T19:58:00.001-08:00

RATS MORE IMPORTANT THAN HUMANS???
OOPS WHERE DID MY HOUSE GO?

2009-01-10T20:53:00.000-08:00

HOWDY NEIGHBOR !

2009-01-06T07:00:00.000-08:00

NOT SO FAST AL FRANKEN

2008-12-31T14:20:00.000-08:00

MAN WITH $70 WOULD RATHER GO TO JAIL THAN PAY FOR SODA!

2008-12-13T07:30:00.000-08:00

Boycott Alabama Now

2008-12-12T21:21:00.001-08:00

MY WEBSITE

2008-12-12T21:13:00.000-08:00

BIG 3 BAILOUT

Why should the taxpayer making $15 per hour bail out the auto workers making much more than that?

Because the the big 3 automotive industry, as a whole, will pay more back in taxes than you will LOAN them. MUCH MORE.

So that the taxes that the autoworker pays will keep welfare afloat for YOU 6 months from now.

So that 3 million more homes don't go on the market .

So that the STEEL and PLASTIC producers have a job.

So that the autoworker doesn't take your job.

So that the autoworker MUSICIANS don't dust of their equipment and compete for your GIGS. (my PLAN B)

UNION WAGES are the last benchmark. When you take them away, employers will be able to pay ANYTHING.

READ ABOUT IT HERE

Dan

2008-12-11T03:34:00.000-08:00

Singer Strangles Self On Stage

2008-12-05T09:19:00.000-08:00

politics, stupidity, weird news, law, litigation, penalties, obama, tehran

Woman In Labor Ticketed On Way To Hospital

49 Arrested for 'satanic' Clothes

2008-12-01T08:43:00.000-08:00

Police Search for New York Savages

"Some man lost his life because a VCR was on sale?"

2008-11-28T21:32:00.000-08:00

Savage New York Shoppers

2008-11-28T08:48:00.000-08:00

2008-11-28T08:44:00.001-08:00

Drunk Driver Drives Over Himself

Dine and Dash Gang Caught on FACEBOOK

Driver Throws AXE at Motorist

Blind Woman Could Lose House because of ONE CENT BILL

2008-11-12T18:24:00.001-08:00

Gays Terrorizing an Elderly Woman

2008-11-11T16:24:00.002-08:00

Obama plans on letting loose some of the Guantanamo GANG....I mean just letting them loose....no trial or anything. READ THE FULL STORY BELOW.

Obama will release some Guantanamo prisoners

2008-11-11T16:24:00.001-08:00

Released child killer suing over confinement

2008-11-11T16:23:00.001-08:00

Dead Over Football??

2008-11-02T04:57:00.000-08:00

BUFFET THIEF?

Canadian perspective...The truth about "FREE HEALTHCARE"

2008-10-29T13:14:00.000-07:00

You won't believe it all, but I'll try.

First off, I'm healthy and rarely go to the doctor, but I'll tell you of the experiences that my close relatives and in-laws had.

1) My mother waited almost a whole year for a hip replacement. She was supposed to recover within a week and be released from the hospital. However , due to a sore(resulting from the operation)?? she spent 5 months in the hospital and the hospital staff were were giving her psychological testing and several other types of testing trying to get her to go into a "old age home". They also tried to get her to sign over her property to pay for the care. They wanted her to fill out several pages of forms listing all of her property. Ontario Government pays for mininmal health care. The nice "assisted living" centers cost $3000 a month. The ugly ones (like where my dad stayed) cost $1800-$2200 and was payed for by his employers health insurance. These places are all understaffed. I'm not sure what happens to the uninsured. We have an old hospital on the west end of my city where people go to die. I don't know any other way to put it. Anyone I have known who was placed there lasted only up to 6 months.

2) My mother-in-law has a history of respiratory and heart problems. She waited in an emergency waiting room for more than 8 hours while complaining of chest pains.

3) My father spent many whole nights waiting in emergency rooms because there were no beds in the hospital.

4) 2 hours is the average amount of time to wait in a clinic to be seen by a doctor.

5) Many of our good doctors leave Canada and go to the U.S. where the pay is better.

6) Appointments with a "specialist".....pre-booked up to one year ahead. On average, many specialists won't see you for 4-6 months.

7) If I get a heart attack, our city of 200,000 doesn't have the proper doctors or machinery to keep me alive. I either must travel 100 miles to London Ontario or go to Detroit. (where I will get a big bill) For a long time, we didn't even have an MRI machine here. We booked our MRI scans in London.

8) In the "old days" , a woman would spend 1 week in a hospital after child birth. My wife spent 3 days after a C section. My niece just had TWINS and spent 1 day !!

So you see. Nothing is really "FREE".

Dan

2008-10-28T08:30:00.000-07:00

If an effigy of Obama was up there instead ,would it be a hate crime?

PALIN LYNCHING?

2008-10-26T21:57:00.000-07:00

USA LOSES FREEDOM DUE TO STUPIDITY

October 22, 2012

Dear friends,

I can hardly sing “The Star Spangled Banner” any more. When I hear the words,
O say, does that star spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

I get tears in my eyes and a lump in my throat. Now in October of 2012, after seeing what has happened in the last four years, I don’t think I can still answer, “Yes,” to that question. We are not “the land of the free and the home of the brave.” Many of our freedoms have been taken away by a liberal Supreme Court and a majority of Democrats in both the House and the Senate, and hardly any brave citizen dares to resist the new government policies any more.

The 2008 election was closer than anybody expected, but Barack Obama still won................................continued

2008-10-26T20:13:00.000-07:00

Teen Beauty Queen Loses Crown Due to Stupidity

Obama Money

2008-10-23T18:36:00.000-07:00

Where did 600 million dollars come from?

2008-10-23T03:39:00.000-07:00

I REFUSE TO PAY !!

Obama and partial birth abortion

2008-10-20T14:49:00.000-07:00

2008-10-18T08:38:00.000-07:00

My Website

2008-10-17T20:22:00.000-07:00

2008-10-17T14:28:00.000-07:00

Drinking mom asks 9 year old to drive.

2008-10-16T16:29:00.000-07:00

2008-10-16T16:24:00.000-07:00

Man tries to pay for meal with marijuanna

Search Engine Submission - AddMe

2008-10-16T16:22:00.000-07:00

Suit against God tossed over lack of address

2008-10-16T03:34:00.000-07:00

Woman Can't Sue Doctor for Deformed Baby

2008-10-12T12:33:00.000-07:00

DIVORCE SETTLEMENT...SAW HOUSE IN HALF

World Banking Collapse

2008-10-10T08:01:00.001-07:00

2008-10-08T21:16:00.001-07:00

2008-10-08T21:12:00.000-07:00

DUMB BLONDE

2008-10-08T21:10:00.000-07:00

AIG SPA RETREAT WITH TAXPAYERS BAILOUT MONEY

They Just Don't Get It

2008-10-03T21:53:00.001-07:00

So how do they get the money flowing again in the U.S.?? Better yet, how did they get ,in this mess, in the first place?...Take a guess.....CHEAP CREDIT ! Now how is the bailout plan going to help the situation? It is going to give the U.S. consumer , Wall Street fatcats and small businesses MORE CHEAP CREDIT !!!

Go figure !

Dan

My Website

2008-09-30T21:30:00.001-07:00

Drunken Bus Driver

More Luck Than Brains

Boo Hoo. I Only Have 200 MILLION Now!

Greenspan Quotes

2008-09-28T20:20:00.000-07:00

November 2006
“The economy is obviously going through a significant slowing period, which as best I can tell is more than likely temporary,”
READ IN CONTEXT

Sept 2007
“It was our job to unfreeze the American banking system if we wanted the economy to function. This required that we keep rates modestly low,” he said.
READ IN CONTEXT

April 2005
“Our budget position is unlikely to improve substantially in the coming years unless major deficit-reducing actions are taken,” Greenspan said.
READ IN CONTEXT

2008-09-27T17:53:00.000-07:00

Joe Biden...BAD HISTORY

2008-09-27T06:52:00.000-07:00

UNBELIEVABLE

2008-09-24T11:52:00.000-07:00

This one wins the STUPIDITY SUBLIME AWARD OF THE DAY.

CRIME DOES PAY !!

2008-09-24T11:47:00.000-07:00

Tree Hugger Burns Down Trees

Dumb Thief

2008-09-23T15:03:00.000-07:00

A new sport?

2008-09-23T14:54:00.000-07:00

I saw a few teenagers driving bicycles and rolling with roller blades on the deck of a FULL inground pool??? Think about that one.

Dan

29 Jun 2006 ... Doctors remove beer bottle from COLON

2008-09-23T14:17:00.000-07:00

How do you manage to do this?? YES STUPIDITY SUBLIME !!!!

Stupidity Sublime

Dan

Well that was smart!!

2008-09-23T13:47:00.000-07:00

Check it out.

Man dies STEALING STEEL !!

Introduction

2008-09-23T13:14:00.000-07:00

This is where you will read about people saying or doing the most stupid things. Some of you may not agree with my assessment of the individual! That is OK. You can go somewhere else where everyone agrees with you !!

Dan