We have been phoned about every five days by men purporting to be raising money for police charities. Nobody else phones us so often. I checked, and was told that this was not genuine and that the police were expressly forbidden to ask for money from the public, whether they are current or retired member …
loneliness pushed many Americans online in search of a love connection. But romance scams often left them with an empty bank account as well as a broken heart. For the past three years, people have reported losing more money on romance scams than on any other type of fraud, according to the FTC’s Consumer Sentinel …
One pays for things like blogs and websites. Money, that is. Today I decided I want to move to another planet, a planet without hi-tech stuff or teeming with fraudsters. I tried to renew my subscription for this blog domain. Should be easy, yes? No. It seems that my wife, minutes before, had tried to …
US Senators have accused Facebook of disregarding research showing harm to teens. Senators grilled Facebook executives recently, accusing them of ignoring internal research indicating that social media can harm teens. Lawmakers demanded that Facebook executives explain the company’s efforts to attract young users despite evidence that Instagram, owned by Facebook, makes body image issues worse …
A school administrator in Southlake, Texas, advised teachers last week that if they have a book about the Holocaust in their classroom, they should also have a book with an “opposing” perspective. The only “diverse perspective” on the Holocaust is Holocaust denial: the odious contention that Hitler didn’t arrange the murder of 6 million Jews …
