Heather At "Card Services" Gets Gagged

Good news, this week. Those infernally annoying phone calls

Hi, this is Heather at Card Services. I have important information about your credit card account. You can lower the interest rate on one or more of your credit card accounts. Press "1" for more information.

are ended. After years of complaining about DNC violations by "Card Services" et al, the FTC has taken action.

That's one scammer out of action, for a while.

Google Urging Email Address Verification

It looks like Blogger / Google is finally urging bloggers to verify their email addresses. This is badly needed, to prevent the old complaint

I forgot my password, and the email address changed a couple years ago.

Bravo, Blogger!