I Appreciate Straightforwardness

One of the reasons that I find children so endearing is their simple straightforwardness. If your appearance look weird, they will stare, point, and tell your that you look weird.

Well, we have grown way past the age of staring and pointing at someone, but I feel like the older we are, the more devious we become. Professionally, I can understand why. It is probably not a good idea to tell your boss of his obvious comb over and that he smells like a sweating pig every Monday morning. Personally, however, sometimes I wish to get such simple answers from friends and family.

In “Utopia”, Thomas Moore portrays an idea of exposing your naked body in front of your counterpart before a marriage proposal. Using this method, both parties can accept each other as the unique individuals that they are. There are no false fronts. Similarly and on a mental level, I think the more we practice of exposing our mind to each other, the more we can avoid misunderstanding and pain.

You can sit there reading this post and agree to everything I say, but I bet you that you will do the exact same thing. People throw curve balls thinking that they won’t hurt the other party by doing so, but boy do those ball hurt when they hit.

This is why I like straightforward people. It doesn’t matter if you’re a family member, a friend, or a lover, don’t leave me in the dark and don’t string me along, because no matter how hard I try, I am the type that can’t easily forgive and forget. I might just pack my bag one day and leave without warnings, and being the proud, stubborn person that I am, I won’t be coming back.

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Domain Name Scam

I know that I have been away from this site for some time now. It’s not that I don’t have anything particularly good to write about, I just become lazy to actually write it, lol. However, here is a story that I want to share with you guys. About a month ago, I received the most interesting email.

Hello,

I have been looking over your domain and I wanted to acquire your domain (www.nuwen.com). We are going to use this domain, because we are going to open up a retail store in Austin, TX selling Computer Accessories. I will like to make a offer of $50K (fifty-thousand-dollars). Please contact me back ASAP.

~Jose A. Vasquez

Do you smell something? Because, it smells like a scam letter to me. So, I look around online to see whether other blogs have posted something like this before. Sure enough, there is a scam that’s going around involving selling and buying domain names.

How this scam works is that the scammer hook an unsuspecting domain owner by dangling a ridiculous amount of money to buy his domain name. Once the bait is taken, the scammer requests an appraisal certificate for the name. The catch is that the name must be appraised by the scammer’s list of recommended sites. Little does the victim know, the scammer owns all of those sites. So the victim spend hundreds of dollars to get his domain name appraised only to find out that the scammer is no longer interested in buying the name.

I decide to dig a little bit further and let him know that I mean business, and that he is messing with the wrong girl. In response, I reply.

Good Evening,

I am not 100% sure about selling (www.nuwen.com). However, if you are serious about your pursuit, then I am willing to place (www.nuwen.com) on Sedo for you to purchase at $50,000 US.

Regards,

The next day, I receive his reply.

Nevermind about the domain, we will use a other domain name (www.nuwencomps.com).

Amazingly, one month has passed and “nuwencomps.com” is still available. When you push a scammer into the right course of action, they will suddenly draw back. So the moral of the story is not to believe in any get-rich-quick scheme. In our pursuit of invisible money, we may be the one who end up on the dinner plate.

Filed under: Academia