Phishing Phollies

So, yesterday I got my feathers all ruffled and set off to right the wrongs of the evil-doers against us honest bloggers who work hard to rid the virtual world of all dirtbags and make the Interwebs a happy place for those NooB’s out there floating around on the bandwidth without a clue.

Waaayulllll, Shiver my timbers and bust my buckle, and toss in a "Holy Crap" to really drive home my enthusiasm!

I’m happy to report that, [although my morning didn’t start well, after all, I had to wake up, and then it was dark and rainy……] things have perked up considerably since getting my morning bucket of coffee!

Busted-scams is, well, B.U.S.T.E.D!

I found a letter in my inbox this morning from the domain owner. As he has requested that I not include the contents of the letter or his name online, I will respect that and just let you know the basic gist of the letter.

He says that he owns hundreds of domain names and that he normally just "parks" the unused ones so they earn a bit of ad income. He decided to allow an intern to have some fun with this and 4 other domains and do whatever he wanted with them. The intern mentioned something about programs, but in his hurried schedule he did not devote any time to the details about what programs his intern wanted to use.

I sincerely hope this intern has learned a hard lesson and will use the experience to grow into a respectable and honest IT professional rather than just another one of the rotten filth roaming the Web looking to screw the innocent and make a quick buck/rouble/yuan/euro at the expense of the rest of us!

I’ll be prominently placing my Creative Commons license on this site as soon as I can figure out why it throws an error in my WPµ server.

Stealing is a crime; it diminishes the soul of the thief and causes harm, whether financial or spiritually, to the victim. While words themselves can not be "owned", the composition of many words into a work can, and is, owned by the composer, just as is music or artwork. You will be a much happier person, inside and out, if you EARN your life rather than steal it from someone else!

So, good Netizens of the Interwebs, us Underdogs won this one. But, we can not sit on our laurels, or our tuckus, we have much to do yet.

…Quick! I hear Sweet Polly Purebred crying out for help. The evil Simon Bar Sinister must be near!

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