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Anti-Fraud Websites Emerging To Fight 'Massive Ignorance'

Commented by new and troubling questions:
3:05 AM on February 3, 2009

The latest (and arguably greatest) scam e-mail I've received:

FROM:MRS HAMZA HARUNA.
OCEANIC FINANCIAL HOUSE/UNITED NATIONS 2008
COMPENSATIONS PAYMENTS
REF/PAYMENTS CODE: TRASNFER#07654 $1,000,000 00.USD

This is to bring to your notice that I am delegated from the United Nations to
OCEANIC BANK Lagos to pay 100 Nigerian 419 scam victims $1,000,000 00.USD each,
you are listed and approved for this payments as one of the scammed victims,get
back to me as soon as possible for the immediate payments of your five hundred
thousand dollars compensations funds.

On this faithfull recomendations,I want you to know that during the last UN
meetings held at Abuja,Nigeria,it was alarmed so much by the rest of the world
in the meetings on the lose of funds by various foreigners to the scams artists
operating in syndicates all over the world today,in other to retain the good
image of the country,the president of the country(President musa umaru yaradua.
) is now paying 100 victims of this operators $1,000,000 00.USD each, the
payments are to be paid by OCEANIC BANK Lagos ,Nigeria,corressponding paying
bank under funding assistance by the Central Bank of Nigeria(C.B.N.).

According to the number of applicants at hand,84 beneficiaries has been paid
,half of the victims are from the United States,we still have more 16 left to be
paid the compensations of $1,000,000 00.USD each.Your particulars was mentioned
by one of the syndicates who was arrested in Lagos Nigeria as one of thier
victims of the operations,you are hereby warned not to communicate or duplicate
this message to any body for any reason what so ever,the US secret service is
already on trace of the criminals.

Woman Barricades Repairman Until He Fixes Her Washer

Commented by new and troubling questions:
11:54 PM on January 20, 2009

@bluewyvern: Totally agree! I just scrolled through the comments looking for one someone to note this (and also double-checking that there is actually no "Bad Consumer" tag on this one).

This really isn't excusable behavior. Consumer rights =/= consumers are always right.

Kellogg: "Please Don't Eat Our Peanut Butter Sandwich Crackers"

Commented by new and troubling questions:
2:39 AM on January 16, 2009

@yankerosa: Yes, but it's really tasty highly processed packed crap. And plus they are like $1.50 for a pack of 8 where I live...which is a good deal when they are, you know, salmonella-free (usually!).

Consumerist Launches Design Tweaks

Commented by new and troubling questions:
12:02 AM on November 13, 2008

@illtron: Not to beat a dead horse, but, another "nay" here. I saw this at work and thought, "hey, maybe this'll look not quite so bad on my Mac at home in FF"...but, no, it definitely still looks really bad.

Did the site's 80+ y.o readership spike or something?

Amazon Customer Service Phone Numbers

Commented by new and troubling questions:
12:03 AM on June 14, 2008

I second the kudos on the call me feature, it's pretty great. I got my call within about 1 minute, more or less...and no lite FM jazz to listen to!

Vodka Is Pretty Much The Same No Matter What Brand You Buy

Commented by new and troubling questions:
11:38 PM on May 23, 2008

@CapitalC: Hahaa...I was doing my own taste test, you see.

Vodka Is Pretty Much The Same No Matter What Brand You Buy

Commented by new and troubling questions:
10:37 PM on May 23, 2008

Sorry if someone already posted this and I totally missed it, but slate did something similar in 2004...apparently, potato vokda is really good.

Commented by new and troubling questions:
11:48 PM on May 15, 2008

@new and troubling questions: also, i say that as a meat-eater.

Commented by new and troubling questions:
11:40 PM on May 15, 2008

I'm glad they reversed course on what was basically an empty gesture...there are equally heinous conditions in commercial feedlots throughout the country, the difference being that those goods are consumed by millions of people on a daily basis.

Chili's Serves You Funky Chunky Sour Cream

Commented by new and troubling questions:
2:29 PM on May 9, 2008

This was, sadly, always a huge issue at basically every restaurant I've ever worked at as a waitress. Granted, there don't tend to be actual chunks of leftover food remaining on plates, but they tend not to be as crystal-clean as you might like, especially since they often just go through the big steam-cleaning dishwasher for just a few moments.

But, having said that, servers really ought to be keeping an eye on these things.

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