By Mike Young on Oct 26, 2008 | In Charities | No Comments »
After donating blood yesterday morning at a semi-annual blood drive (the blood donations ensure that Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children never has to buy blood for their patients), my wife, son, and I spent yesterday volunteering at “Sam’s Day.”
Who is Sam?
Sam is a six-year-old boy who has been diagnosed with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. One of nine types of muscular dystrophy, Duchenne is one of the worst that you can get. It is the leading genetic killer of young boys.
By age 12, most kids with it have to Read the rest »
By Mike Young on Oct 17, 2008 | In CyberCrime, Federal Trade Commission, Spam | No Comments »
Enough! The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) brags about shutting down the biggest spam network (Herbal Kings) in the world. Noticed a drop of unsolicited commercial e-mail (junk mail) in your inbox as a consequence? Neither have I.
Asset forfeiture and civil judgments just aren’t enough to deter spamming when it is so profitable for those who do it.
What’s the solution?
It is time for a law that requires career spammers be executed. I’m not talking about the Internet newbie who sends you spam inadvertently after getting your business card. That’s annoying but the newbie isn’t maliciously profitting by sending tens of millions of unsolicited junk e-mails monthly that waste countless labor hours trying to delete or fix damage caused by trojans, etc.
As for those hours wasted, imagine what Read the rest »
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By Mike Young on Oct 14, 2008 | In CyberCrime, Internet Marketing, Marketing | 3 Comments
Frankly, I took a lot of grief from Perry Belcher’s defenders for posting Perry Belcher - The Arrest of an Internet Marketer. The post was not an attack on Belcher but rather a warning to all Internet marketers about the type of behavior that draws unwanted attention from the government.
Some flames accused me of attacking Ryan Deiss in the process. While it is true that Deiss is Belcher’s friend and supporter, it is insane to infer that pointing out Belcher’s arrest somehow meant I was going after Deiss too.
Now back to Belcher. According to The Memphis Commercial Appeal (Shelby County man sentenced for health-remedy scam), Belcher has pled guilty to computer fraud, received a 10-year suspended sentence, forfeited many websites, and more than $1 million Read the rest »
