ALERT: Avoid Netspend Prepaid Debit Cards
Perhaps you purchased a prepaid debit card from Netspend. Or worse, you received this prepaid card as a gift. Either way, you are in for a world of hurt using this card. Netspend is among …
IN DEPTH: Dump Your Second Car and Save A Bundle
Two car families are so 20th Century. Move on, folks, this is the 21st century – the era of Mobility As A Service (a.k.a. Transportation As A Service or Cars-As-A-Service). All of them are lousy …
SCAM ALERT: Beware The Oxidized Cholesterol Strategy Swindle
“One single ingredient lowers your cholesterol below 100” screams the headline at Blue Heron Health News. Welcome to yet another installment in Internet-based health marketing scams. Scattered through the Net are Web-based infoscams that overcharge or steal …
COOL TIP: Transport Options for San Diego Seniors
Many seniors have found life without a car to be surprisingly freeing. They are free of car payments, insurance premiums, maintenance hassles and, most importantly, free of having to swerve away from freaking out-of-their-mind motorcycle drivers. …
Do Probiotic Supplements Actually Work?
The probiotic supplement business is a large and growing industry but, like its vitamin-pushing brethren, it may be pushing useless placebo pills. Sales of probiotic “products” are predicted to exceed $52 billion by 2020. Since 2008, …
SCAM ALERT: The Sneaky Internet Speed Test Scams
Is your Internet connection feeling a bit sluggish? Just conduct an Internet speed test. Ooops! Turns out some of those online speed tests might be a scam. It turns out that online …
COOL TIP: Californian Can Protect Their Privacy in 2020
The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) passed the California legislature in 2019 and the new law goes into effect on January 1, 2020. This groundbreaking law creates four basic rights for consumers: the right to know …
Don’t Get Burned by Eat, Sleep, Burn Diet Scheme
Eat, Sleep, Burn is a recent diet scheme promoted on the Internet. It is allegedly authored by Dan Garner and Todd Lamb, although it reads like the the pantheon of Internet diet scams that overcharge …
SCAM ALERT: Don’t Get Burned by Heartburn No More Scheme
What would you do if you meet a new person and the first thing they tell you is clearly a lie? You’d likely runaway. Well, pretty much the first thing that Hearburn No More tells …
ANALYSIS: Climate Change Is Very Real and Very Sobering
Climate change isn’t coming……it’s here. The signs are very real and very sobering. In just 2019 alone, here’s what scientists have documented: Arctic permafrost is melting at a rate that is far faster that …