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Scam Alert – Domain Renewal Group

We interrupt this regularly scheduled retrospective to bring you a scam alert.

That’s right, someone attempted to scam me.  Conveniently, I’m smarter than they think and they certainly didn’t catch me.

Yesterday, while skimming my mail (mostly junk – don’t these people have better things to spend their money on?) I came across an envelope from Domain [...]

Standing up for your financial self

(Thanks to everyone for updating their bookmarks to the new site.  I realize that the name change is a bit confusing, but in the past couple of months, someone snatched up all domains that would make sense for a site named A Dollar a Day, so I decided the best option was to do a [...]

I still don’t like hidden fees

I really like when sites where you can buy plane tickets list the price with the tax and fees. Then you know exactly what you’re going to be paying when you buy the ticket. Which is nice because if you travel and stay in a hotel, your hotel bill is all but guaranteed [...]

The spammers are costing me money!

I have text messaging on my phone, but I don’t have an unlimited plan. I pay 10 cents to send a text and 2 cents every time I receive one. I’ve done the math, and at this point, I just don’t send and receive enough text messages to make the unlimited plan worth [...]

Hidden fees drive me crazy!

I am a huge fan of the column Red Tape Chronicles on msnbc.com. In it, Bob Sullivan writes about things like internet scams and consumer fraud. While we all hear stories about scams and fraud and think “Oh, I would never have fallen for that,” this column uncovers stories that perhaps some of [...]