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BEWARE: A warning to Authors, AI scraping your books

By jefferis July 21, 2026 Leave a comment

Recently, I started receiving very detailed analyses of my book, with what appears to be very personal engagement of my themes and content done with AI, followed by a targeted marketing pitch.

Beware the New Smartphone Text Message Banking Scam

By jefferis August 13, 2016 Leave a comment

I got a priority message on in text on my Smartphone this week. It came to my phone number. It looked legitimate sort of, except that I don’t have any relationship with JP Morgan. Found out that there is a new scam going on using banking and your phone for text messages. Here’s an article […]

BEWARE ADOBE CREATIVE CLOUD!!!! CANCELLATION FEES!

By jefferis January 29, 2016 Leave a comment

Adobe has cancellation fees hidden in the fine print of Creative Cloud! Don’t sign up if you don’t want to be bullied or tricked by their evil marketing.

Beware Intuit QuickBooks tech “support” SCAM!

By jefferis April 12, 2013 29 Comments

Quickbooks “tech support” is a scamming operation more interested in selling upgrades than in helping you fix your problems.

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