Want to be a billionaire? Just write a $360 billion check!
Everything is bigger in Texas. It’s not uncommon for average people to lose a few hundred bucks to a well-played scam. However, Charles Ray Fuller felt that he had the ultimate solution to his financial woes. Why waste time scamming people out of a few bucks at a time? Let’s just write one big fake check and call it a day!
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WTF? Flying Schoolbus
This is one of the strangest things I’ve ever seen…
Running Away From Life
It seems that everyone is running away from life these days. The movie “Into The Wild” portrays a real story about a man named Christopher McCandless, who rid himself of all his posessions and wandered out into the world as a drifter. In 2005, a woman by the name of Jennifer Carol Wilbanks falsely claimed she was kidnapped, and after being found in Albuquerque, NM three days later, she recanted her story claiming she was escaping from the pressures of her life. Yet again, we have a gentleman by the name of Ian Usher, who wants to dump the remnants of his life on some other poor sap who is ignorant enough to pay the $300,000 price tag.
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I wouldn’t steal
I happened upon this little video that I thought was pretty catchy. The message is simple: Sharing shouldn’t be illegal.
The next ‘Big Oil’ - Corn Farmers
As the demand for alternative fuels rises, so does the demand for corn. This is because ethanol is produced from corn. While the corn farmers of the US rake in record profits, they introduce more fertilizer into the Mississippi river, and eventually into the Gulf of Mexico. This creates what is called a ‘Dead Zone’, in which marine life cannot live. The corn farmers understand this problem, yet they refuse to look for a resolution, just like Big Oil.
In due time, we will look at corn farmers the same way we look at big oil companies. They will produce an energy source we need to sustain our consumption. Eventually, they’ll be running our country and destroying our environment, just like Big Oil.
Jason Reed of Reuters reported today on this growing trend.
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15 Weirdest Work Stories of 2007
As the year comes to an end, Careerbuilder.com has compiled a list of the 15 wierdest work stories of 2007. From the cop making an arrest over a salty burger, to the business owner who killed his employees over requested payraises, this list describes the actions of some of the dumbest people in society.
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Veteran Removes Illegal Mexican Flag, May Be Charged
Good for you, Jim! Immigrating to the US and then flying the Mexican flag over the US flag equates to an invasion. As far as I’m concerned, that business owner should be shot.
You can run, but you can’t hide. Stupid Pedophile!
If you’re going to abuse children and post pictures of yourself doing it, this might make you think twice about it. This jerkoff has been travelling to Cambodia for years to molest kids and post pictures of it on the internet. I hope this piece of shit gets what he has coming to him.
Full Story from MSNBC:
Interpol unscrambles photo to ID pedophile
Suspect seen in Internet blurred photos abusing boys in Vietnam, Cambodia
PARIS - Interpol sought public help Monday in identifying a suspected pedophile, revealing a technique to unscramble digitally altered images to show the face of a man seen in Internet photos sexually abusing young boys in Vietnam and Cambodia.
Specialists succeeded in producing identifiable images of the man from the original pictures, where his face was a digitally blurred whirl, the international police organization said.
Anders Persson, a Swedish police officer who oversees Interpol’s database of images of child abuse, said releasing the photos sent “a quite clear message” to criminals that they can be identified through Web postings.
He declined to detail how specialists unblurred the photos.
“Techniques are always developing. What is impossible today is possible tomorrow,” he said. “There were several attempts to clear the face … We are sure that you can’t get better pictures and the people in his neighborhood — family friends, colleagues, whatever — they will recognize him.”
Interpol said 12 different young boys appeared in about 200 original photographs. One picture showed the name of a hotel in Vietnam, but police checks of the guest register turned up no clues, Persson said in a telephone interview. Cambodian police recognized locations in other photos.
Interpol, which is headquartered in Lyon in southeast France, posted four reconstructed photos of the man on its Web site, along with an original image where his face was blurred.
Photos from before December 2004
Persson said he personally had opposed making the photos public because it demonstrated to criminals that police can now unblur pictures. But that consideration and the risk that the man could face public humiliation or even violence now that he is recognizable were outweighed by the desire to protect other children from abuse.
“It was a long discussion,” Persson said. “We can’t just sit here and do nothing. We have exhausted all possibilities within police work to find this man … This was the last step.”
The photos by German specialists showed a white man who looked in his thirties, with uncombed short brown hair. One photo showed him wearing glasses; in another he was smiling.
The photos must date from before December 2004, when they were found on the Internet, and some were digitally stamped as having been taken in 2002 and 2003, said Persson.
“For years, images of this man sexually abusing children have been circulating on the Internet. We have tried all other means to identify and to bring him to justice, but we are now convinced that without the public’s help this sexual predator could continue to rape and sexually abuse young children whose ages appear to range from six to early teens,” Interpol’s secretary general, Ronald K. Noble, said in a statement.
“We have very good reason to believe that he travels the world in order to sexually abuse and exploit vulnerable children,” Noble added.
Boys have not been located
The 12 boys have not been located, he added. Interpol had already circulated photos of the man to police around the world but failed to identify him.
The man has distinguishing marks on his body that would be enable police to be sure that he is the man in the photographs if he is eventually identified, Persson said. He did not say what these marks were but said they would be “the final proof if he is the right guy or not.”
Interpol asked people who recognize the man or who have other information to contact police or the Interpol bureau in their country. It urged them not to take any direct action themselves.
YourFreeMusicDownloads.com - Scammer with a lot of websites and identities
Recently I read a news release regarding a website called YourFreeMusicDownloads.Com, claiming to offer free mp3 downloads by filling out surveys. I figured it was a scam, but I went through the entire process to check it out for myself.
The website first asks for a valid email address, and the addresses for two friends. I opted to provide that information with my own email address, which is heavily filtered, and two free email services.
The next step is to fill out a survey. I signed up for the first survey on the list, and proceeded to complete every step. As it turns out, the survey was a legitimate company called YourTopBrands.com, and after signing up for three services they gave me a voucher for a free $100 Visa gift card.
I waited several weeks for access to the mp3 downloads, but received no access code. I then contacted YourTopBrands.com to ask if they were affiliated with the referring website. The answer was No. YourTopBrands.com has never heard of, nor do they have any business relations with YourFreeMusicDownloads.com. I forwarded this information to contact@yourfreemusicdownloads.com and waited for a response, which never arrived.
I waited several more weeks, and still had no access to the promised mp3 downloads. However, my inbox now receives hundreds of spam messages per day (graciously filtered at the mail server). Now that I have established that YourFreeMusicDownloads.Com is indeed a scam, I did some research on Google.
As it turns out, the same contact phone number and address are listed for several other shady websites located in California. Top it off with the fact that the retard is a webhosting reseller under the domain svws.net. The funny part is, the phone number has a Florida area code, and the business that resides at the address listed for YourFreeMusicDownloads.com is actually SK Donut Shop. Here are the sites I’ve found so far:
svws.net
Monahan, Brendan
Silicon Valley Web Services, Inc.
1484 Pollard Road, Suite 415
Los Gatos, CA 95032
ilovespam69@hotmail.com
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brendanmonahan.com
Brendan Monahan
San Jose, CA
408-892-5222
brendan@brendanmonahan.com
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YourFreeMusicDownloads.com
Chris Rearden
1440 Pollard Road
Los Gatos, CA 95032
contact@YourFreeMusicDownloads.com
1-904-369-1215
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FreePlayStation3.net
Brian Cornerstone
1484 Pollard Road, Suite 415
Los Gatos, CA 95032
contact@freeplaystation3.net
1-904-369-1215
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MesotheliomaLawyerAttorney.com
Brian Cornerstone
1484 Pollard Road, Suite 415
Los Gatos, CA 95032
contact@MesotheliomaLawyerAttorney.com
1-904-369-1215
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arizonataxliens.com
Brian Cornerstone
1484 Pollard Road, Suite 415
Los Gatos, CA 95032
contact@arizonataxliens.com
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commercialpropertyappraisal.com
1484 Pollard Road, Suite 415
Los Gatos, CA 95032
contact@commercialpropertyappraisal.com
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increaseyoursalary.com
1484 Pollard Road, Suite 415
Los Gatos, CA 95032
contact@increaseyoursalary.com
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learnforexblog.info
1484 Pollard Road, Suite 415
Los Gatos, CA 95032
contact@learnforexblog.info
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onlineforextradingblog.com
1484 Pollard Road, Suite 415
Los Gatos, CA 95032
contact@onlinwforextradingblog.com
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cheapwebhostingcompanies.com
1484 Pollard Road, Suite 415
Los Gatos, CA 95032
contact@cheapwebhostingcompanies.com
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forextradingplatformblog.info
1484 Pollard Road, Suite 415
Los Gatos, CA 95032
contact@forextradingplatformblog.info
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qualitybabyfurniture.com
1484 Pollard Road, Suite 415
Los Gatos, CA 95032
contact@qualitybabyfurniture.com
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safebabyfurniture.com
1484 Pollard Road, Suite 415
Los Gatos, CA 95032
contact@safebabyfurniture.com
