Friday, March 26, 2021

Government Stimulus Checks Bring Out the Scammers


 

There was once a time, many, many years ago when a good portion of this blog dealt with my misadventures attempting to scam the scammers. I would use one or more Yahoo email addresses to correspond with what are generally referred to as Nigerian scammers.

In those by-gone days, I would use characters such as Wanda Tuinphro, Misty Meaner, Fred and Lamont Sanford and a host of others, to keep these scammers occupied - usually leading them down a rabbit hole.

I had a website which I would use to create fake news sites to make some of my tall tales more believable. Unfortunately, I no longer have that website, so links in those earlier blog posts lead nowhere.

The last of these adventures ended in 2011 with Capt. Eddie Shields.......Nigerian Scammer. I had become bored and no longer interested in maintaining these charades.

Of course, like everyone else with an email account, I continue to get the occasional scam-spam.

I received one recently which had me scratching my head. Could there be folks so gullible as to believe some of these obvious swindles. I'm sure there are quite a few people who are upset at not having received the latest stimulus payment from Uncle Sam. There will be, of course lots of bad guys looking to take advantage of the situation by sending fraudulent emails; but, seriously - look at the return email address on the scam email photo at the beginning of this post. Does anyone think that such a bizarre email address would come from some U.S. Federal agency set up to assist people?

An email coming from QPVYBPBW...@ndvfsqyrh etc. should set off alarms for anyone. I'd really hate to think that this scam is successful. Surely, people can't be this stupid......can they?

Thursday, March 25, 2021

The Scaffolding and the Metal Posts


Our new project began in earnest yesterday, and I'm continuing to document the progress. Today, I've taken 18 photos of the work done so far. That's way too many photos for one blog post, so I'll be doing as I did with the installation of the new gate and the construction of the wall going around our property.

I'm going to divide these 18 photos and put them into a post on each of my three blogs simultaneously:
Scaffolding and Metal Posts
The Scaffolding and the Metal Posts
Metal Posts and Scaffolding

Anyone interested in seeing all the work done today can simply click on another link to be led to another blog post.






 

Another Post on My Kerfuffle with Facebook


 

On Sunday, I wrote a post on My On Going Kerfuffle with Google and Facebook . Of course, nothing has changed since then. I did, however, attempt to post a link to this blog onto Facebook so I could get screenshots of the Facebook banning process.






 


What can you do?


 

Sunday, March 21, 2021

My On Going Kerfuffle with Google and Facebook

I've mentioned on a number of occasions that my blogs have had problems dealing with both Facebook and Google adsense. This blog has been banned from Facebook, supposedly due to the blog being a "spam site" because of my ads.

Funny thing, my dumaguetewebsite blog probably contains more Google ads than this blog, and I have no problem posting links to it on Facebook.

This Facebook ban has led to the creation of a third blog - robertsimms.blogspot.com with which Facebook evidently doesn't have a problem. Unfortunately, Google adsense has yet to approve that blog for ads, sighting the lack of content. I've attempting to address this by making a concerted effort to post to the new blog on a regular basis.

Oddly, my posts on sorryalltheclevernamesaretaken have been far less frequent of late than the newer Robert Simms blog. This has not affected my Google ads on that blog whats so ever.

I've tried getting around these problems by linking all three blogs onto MeWe.com, trying to bring in traffic. I'm also frequently linking the non-banned blogs onto Facebook. So far, none of these stratagems has increased my revenue.