I saw this today over at Teresa’s Frog Applause strip, and thought I’d share it just because I found it fascinating. Phytolacca Decandra, if you were not sure, is pokeweed – a toxic plant with no known legitimate medical uses and a host of applications in folk medicine. It’s poisonous. That’s all I need to […]
I don’t like scammers. I don’t like woo-peddlers. I don’t like people who take advantage of the gullible and/or the vulnerable to make money at any cost. I’ve written numerous times about snake-oil sales, and even got a cease-and-desist letter from some law firm because the manufacturer didn’t like being called a scumball. But they’re […]
I’ve posted numerous times about health-related scams and sleazy marketing. For this reason, I have no small sense of irony spending time as a temp worker for a local nutraceutical company that serves many herbal and health-food concerns. Today I spent 8 hours helping to package about a million capsules of… wait for it… garcinia […]
Back in the day, worthless patent medicines with outrageous claims were marketed shamelessly to the gullible public. Front Back Found at the UCLA Digital Library Good thing we’ve come so far beyond those times. Oh, wait… The Old Wolf has spoken
A comment recently appeared at this post, which read as follows: It’s appropriate time to have the plans for future years and it’s time for you to be happy. We have read this article and if I really could I want to propose you number of interesting points or ideas. Maybe you can easily write […]
I still get mail addressed to my mother on occasion; she left this world last year at the age of 94. But she was getting ads like this regularly for about 15 years before she finally caught the bus, and as time went on (before we took over her financial affairs) she ordered lots of […]
Light shined into dark corners will make the cockroaches scurry for cover. Today we’re talking about Ketonic Labs Green Coffee Bean extract. Executive Summary: This product is a fraud, this product is a scam, and this product is snake oil. Here’s the spam email I got this morning: The spam issue In the first place, […]
I have written often and at length about fraudulent enterprises and scams, and I am sharing this one here because it deserves to be seen far and wide. Full disclosure: I was part of a network marketing / MLM / Relationship Marketing firm for about 10 years. I cannot believe how hard I drank the […]
I have often posted about snake oil vendors on the internet and the operation of scummy affiliate marketers that flood our inboxes and search results with come-ons for worthless products that hook vulnerable people into giving up credit card numbers and signing up for endless refills of overpriced trash. After some brilliant internet sleuthing, GoDaddy […]
Wow, TV + Internet +Voice, $29.99! That certainly grabs the attention. “Each.” That means the total price is about 90 bucks. Hmm, not such a great deal after all. And “Standard rates apply after 1 year,” says the teeny-tiny print on the back. This is not exclusive to Spectrum – pull just about any flyer out […]
Playing in the World Game 