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I give to you what I believe may be the worst news article ever written. It’s quite long, but trust me, it’s worth it. This article makes me wonder not only what type of person wrote it, but what type of editor decided it was good enough to go out.

Here are some snippets… click the link below to go to the site itself.

Computer spammers are the elusive people so many love to hate.

They’re also hard to find but sometimes they do get caught.

And so the article begins… it was written just like this. Amazing.

A heartland man pleaded guilty to the crime at a time when spam e-mailing is on the rise again.

If you have an email account, it has probably happened to you.

It happened to UNO student Desi Holman.

Not Desi! Oh noes!

Then there are safety concerns. Some spam wants our money.

Others try to deliver a computer virus.

It’s the reason UNO has cyber security director Bret Blackman.

I think UNO should send this writer a tutor.

Worldwide, 90 percent of all email is spam.

The volume has doubled in a year’s time.

Spam filters can’t keep up.

“The volume of spam in the last year has increased so much that it is estimated that 90% of e-mail (worldwide) is now spam; this is twice as much as it was last year. The problem is so severe that many Spam filters can’t keep up and companies are seeking other solutions.” There… I think that’s what he meant to say.

Channel 6 contacted Josh Eveloff at his business, but he did not return my calls.

If you talk half as bad as you write, I can understand why. Click below to to go the original article… prepare to wince:

Spammer Pleads Guilty @ WOWT.com

Well, it’s official. I’m out of a job. As of this morning, our company was denied money for operating. Nice. It seems the banks just got greedy, and decided they deserved the money more. Cool, maybe they’ll let me stay with them when I can’t pay my rent.

Anyway, this weekend will be spent sending out resumes and trying not to think about what can happen. If you wanna contribute, you can send me a donation (thanks to those that do), but it’s pretty much all I can ask. If you wanna donate, click below:

– THANKS FOR DONATING! WE NOW HAVE ENOUGH FOR OUR BILLS! –

Thanks again. Also, I’ll try to get my new theme and such finished this weekend… not like I can go out anywhere. Oh well… sorry to be such a downer… I’ll be happier next post, I promise!

So, Jess and I paid off our car on the 14th of this month. Happy time, right? Wrong.

When we paid off our car, we thought we just had to pay it off, and then call the company (C.A.F.) and ask them to cancel our automatic payments. Ha! Well, we did that, and all was well… until the 22nd. Suddenly they took our usual payment (which is about $315, not a small amount) from our checking account.

So I’m pissed… I call up C.A.F. and they tell me that is wasn’t them who took the funds, no, it was my bank. They say that the way their automatic payments work is that the bank (G.W.B.) takes the money and sends it to them. I didn’t believe them, but what could I do?

I call G.W.B. and ask them to stop sending payments to C.A.F. right away and to refund our money. We’re told that they don’t send the money unless it’s requested, but they can put a stop on it for the low, low price of $25. We yell, but we have to pay, so I shell out the $25 and they give us the remaining money back. All is well, right?

Wrong. I get an e-mail today from a new company (M.V.C.) saying that they paid the $315 for us, since there was a stop put on the check. So we now owe them $315. WTF? I call them and have a nice chat… this is what I find out. I was apparently supposed to cancel my automatic payments FIRST, and pay off the car second. Good to know. Also, it seems that the company that requested the money isn’t the same as C.A.F., they’re the C.B.M. company. They’re under the same umbrella as C.A.F., but they seem to be completely blind to each other. So while C.A.F. says I don’t owe them any more, no one told C.B.M. to stop taking my money.

You following so far? Just incase you’re not… quick recap:

Okay… so C.B.M. thought I needed to send another payment to C.A.F. and got my bank to send it. I put a stop on it, so C.B.M. got another company (M.V.C) to pay and just get the money from me later.

Got it? Let’s continue. Now then, this is what I was told I need to do to fix it:

1. Call C.B.M. and convince them to close my account with them.

2. Call C.A.F. and ask them for a refund of the $315 (when they ask for proof that it’s paid, I need to get them to talk to C.B.M.).

3. When I get the refund we need to remove the stop from my bank and make sure the money is there.

4. Finally I have to call C.B.M. and have them re-take the money from us.

Nice. So that’s a lot of effort and I’m down $25 and possibly a tick on my credit score, as M.V.C. is technically a collection agency. Yay! :angry:

And here I thought things would be easier now that I paid it off. Sure showed me.

On Feb 20, 2006, the President of our company went missing. He was last heard from at 6:20 PM talking to his wife. On the 21st, he was discovered dead. I blogged all the events that happened on the Neowin Forums, but it was quite disjointed.

Now that everything is said and done, I figured I should post it here. I’m going to post edited versions of what was posted on the other site. It will be edited to remove things that do not have to do with this, and also to include anything that is missing.

Since this is a very long entry, I’m going to make it split… if you want to read it… please click the “(more)” link below.

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