Archive for the ‘con’ tag
Facebook Scams
[ Update -> Facebook have had a change of policy and most of the scams are now gone ]
Facebook seem to be happy to take money from just about anyone, I have seen literally hundreds of scams advertised at me on the Facebook site.
I have been telling them about these adverts for months but still they persist in allowing them to be shown. Surely knowing they are scams and continuing to show the ads make Facebook complicit in the scam?
Terms and Conditions
In Facebook’s advertising terms and conditions it explicitly states that scams are prohibited content, but there the fraudulent adverts are…. maybe FB just don’t care?
Dryerballs – toxic and a scam
There seem to be a number of eco-products available for your tumble dryer which claim to do away with the need for fabric softeners, speed up drying times, reduce energy consumption… all complete nonsense if you ask me.
HH2 – another run-your-can-on-water scam
I was driving through the north of LA the other day when a car came past us covered in stickers claiming it ran on hydrogen, very interesting I thought and jotted down the web address; www.hh2.us
When I got home I looked them up, I was so disappointed to see they are just another HHO run-your-car-on-water scam, www.hh2.us turns out to be www.hydrolectricpower.com. I have been blogging about this HHO crap for years.
Miricale Toilet Smellkiller – yet another scam from Ecozone
I don’t know about you, but while not the cleanest place in the world my toilet bowl is not very smelly either. Well Ecozone have done it again, they have a miracle-eco-product which will solve a problem which does not exist, they now make a “Toilet Smellkiller”, a disc of stainless steel which, they say, kills the smells in your toilet.
It lasts a lifetime, apparently, never needs replacing as it is made from “special high-grade stainless steel”, it contains no chemicals (other than the chemicals used to make stainless steel I presume; carbon, iron and chromium). It and somehow “neutralises odours in your toilet as soon as it comes into contact with air and water, leaving the air fresh and clean again”.
Ecozone say that “it has been tested to eliminate odours” but as always they never say who did the testing or when or where – we are just supposed to take their word for it!
