The Internet Is Rotting
Sixty years ago the futurist Arthur C. Clarke observed that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. The internet—how we both communicate with one another and together preserve the intellectual products of human civilization—fits Clarke’s...
Riot Blockchain Stock Significantly Overvalued?
The stock of Riot Blockchain (NAS:RIOT, 30-year Financials) gives every indication of being significantly overvalued, according to GuruFocus Value calculation. GuruFocus Value is GuruFocus' estimate of the fair value at which the stock should be traded. It is...
The Scammer’s Toolbox: How Cyber Criminals Pursue Swindles And Phishing With Email
by Ray Schultz , Columnist, December 18, 2020 Unhappy with your email results? Take a look at how well phishing artists are doing. Most of us are familiar with the broad term “spear phishing.” It covers a range of pathologies. Typically, spear phishers attempt to...
Feds Allege Petr Pacas aka Peter Pacas Hijacked IP Addresses
Petr Pacas, Peter Pacas, Pete Pacas, an employee of Adconion Direct, with Kim Reed Perell as CEO, has been charged with crimes by California Federal Prosecutors. I wonder how his family feels about this. Are they "stoked"? There's a reason they don't put trailer...
Adconion Employees Allegedly Hijacked IP Addresses for Spamming
Jeff Morgan (Jeffrey Perry Morgan), Jonathan David, and Petr Pacas have long been associated with Adconion which started out as Frontline Direct. Kim Reed Perell started Frontline Direct, was CEO of Adconion, and became CEO of Amobee when after Amobee aquired...
Amazon Sellers Paying to Game the System
For the millions of third-party sellers on Amazon’s marketplace, maintaining a successful business is a constant battle to rank high in search results, collect positive product reviews, and keep up with Amazon when it releases its own branded versions of sellers’ most...
The Pill Popping Psychiatry Scam Revealed
Mind Fixers: Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness by Anne Harrington Norton In 1886, Clark Bell, the editor of the journal of the Medico-Legal Society of New York, relayed to a physician named Pliny Earle a query bound to be of interest to...
‘The system is rigged, there is no such thing as meritocracy’
A woman who used to write college essays, applications, and resumes for the children of wealthy parents has spoken out about the college bribery scandal. Jaimie Leigh took to Facebook to reveal that she was not at all surprised when she found out that dozens of...
Retail Drops by Most Since 2009
Retail sales plummeted by the most in nine years in December, an unexpected drop that has fueled concerns about an economy driven by consumer spending. The Commerce Department said Thursday that retail sales sank 1.2% last month to $505.8 billion, marking the...
The Internet is fake. We’re not lying.
In late November, the Justice Department unsealed indictments against eight people accused of fleecing advertisers of $36 million in two of the largest digital ad-fraud operations ever uncovered. Digital advertisers tend to want two things: people to look at their ads...