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The Golden Age of Scams

On By southwerkIn business ethics1 Comment

https://www.yahoo.com/news/age-scams-184034965.html

Alana Semuels wrote an essay called “The Age of Scams” for “Time.” It makes me genuinely envious to see this quality and content in writing. Not only is the writing lively and clever, she is absolutely right about our generation unfortunate arrival at the peak of a world of scams. Here is a paragraph from her work:

Cotelingham’s experience is increasingly common. We are living in the golden age of scams. U.S. consumers lost a record $10 billion to fraud in 2023, according to the Federal Trade Commission, a 14% increase over 2022. That tally is almost certainly an undercount. More than three-­quarters of victims, including Cotelingham, don’t report to authorities that they’ve been defrauded. We are constantly baited by scammers—by text, by email, by phone. The average smartphone owner in the U.S. gets an estimated 42 spam texts and 28 spam calls per month, according to RoboKiller, an app for screening calls.

We all suffer living in this golden age of scams. I can take a quick glance at my e-mail spam folder which is many times in size the contents of legitimate e-mails and get an immediate grasp of the giant growth industry that scamming is.

It is obvious that the pathways we use to communicate, e-mail, the internet and the phone have all become corrupted. Surely as a larger society something can be done to curb these disgraceful practices.

I recommend you read the original essay and like me contemplate what can be done about this moral and ethical disaster.

James Alan Pilant

Why You Can’t Comment

On By southwerkIn Personal

I got spammed through the comments section.

Not a little bit spammed, I got hit hard.  The comment section had a section where you had to enter a list of words and numbers from a scrambled set. I thought that would prevent spamming. Whatever they did, went through those defenses as if they weren’t even there.

So, no comments.

I’m sorry. I’m very sorry.

Reality is often bitter and this is one of those cases.

James Pilant

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Do Not Spam Me Again! (via Paul Daniel’s Views On The World, For What They’re Worth)

On By southwerkIn business ethics

As my regular readers are aware I love outrage. I think people should be angry about a lot of what is happening in the field of ethics. This blog is full of outrage and the good kind – directed outrage with an inclination toward action. Not only is our brave blogger upset – he is fighting against those wicked spammers. He should get awards and letters of congratulation. While others gripe, he lets the spammers know what he thinks..

I am delighted to repost this. There is an e-mail exchange he posts that is a must read. I like the wit, the intelligence and the outrage of our writer. Go get ’em.

James Pilant

Thanks to the web site, Paul Daniel’s View on the World, For What They’re Worth.

Do Not Spam Me Again! As far as I’m concerned, most IT recruiters should be transported by air to New Zealand and dropped 30,000 feet into a boiling mud pool. Mind you, I do have a few colleagues who are recruiters, who are generally good people, but generally it hasn’t been a great experience when I have had to deal with them. Unfortunately, the one for whom I have the most respect supports Collingwood. Consider the following e-mail extract, reading from the bottom u … Read More

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