Bob McCarty Writes

Editor’s note: The post below was written and published by my friend, Skunkfeathers, at his blog of the same name.  While I’ve condensed it slightly to reduce its carbon footprint (just kidding), I have not changed the flavor of the piece, ensuring it stays in line with previous Skunky posts, all of which have to [...]

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If officials with Citibank are not bright enough to prevent Nigerian e-mail scammers (a.k.a., “419 scammers”) from hustling them out of $27 million, should they — or their parent, Citigroup — be trusted with $45 billion in bailout funds?  That’s the too-little-too-late question I asked myself after reading a report in The New York Times [...]

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Though I can guarantee you 100 percent of the content at BobMcCarty.com is written by a man (i.e., me), the analysis tools behind the new Gender Analyzer site concluded that only 80 percent of the content at BobMcCarty.com is written by a man.  Should I feel insecure about that?  Not exactly, considering the following: Regular [...]

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Less than 24 hours after publishing E-mail Scammer Offers Qur’an Signed by Obama, a post that provided a blow-by-blow description of a three-day exchange involving yours truly, my Colorado-based scam-baiting expert friend Skunkfeathers and some unscrupulous scammers in Kenya, an e-mail “admission of guilt” arrived from a person claiming to be the perpetrator: Gentlemen, you [...]

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During this presidential election season, I’ve written my fair share of posts about Barack Obama, his involvement with unscrupulous characters and the possibility that he isn’t even a legal citizen of the United States.  Now, it seems the Democratic Party presidential nominee has become a magnet for trouble on an international scale as evidenced by [...]

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Before I had a chance to raise my virtual voice in opposition to an opinion piece by the Guardian‘s Jonathan Freedland, Mike Bay had already taken the bull by the horns and straightened out the British writer. Freedland began his piece with the paragraph below (and it didn’t get any better): The feeling is familiar. [...]

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[Note: The post below was written by Skunkfeathers ("Dear Skunky"), a once-weekly contributor to this blog and one of the world’s most-prolific harassers of those who perpetuate e-mail scams. You’ll notice a lot of misspelled words in the communications from the scammers, but we leave them intact in order to show you how the scammers [...]

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