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Consummate Consumer by Don Oldenburg, business columnist
Consummate Consumer
Even Smarties Get Swindled on the Net
Who falls for this stuff? Who's so greedy or naive to get suckered by those Nigerian scams that litter inboxes and spam filters with rubbish so clearly a ruse you'd have to be a knucklehead or on drugs not to just delete 'em?
 

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Annys Shin Post consumer-issues reporter Annys Shin blogs about bargains, scams, recalls, credit -- and everything else that affects your wallet.
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Calls From the Wild (By Don Oldenburg, May 21, 2006, Page F05)
 
Same Old Scam, Every Month (By Don Oldenburg, May 7, 2006, Page F05)
 
Costly Gas? Roll With It. (By Don Oldenburg, April 30, 2006, Page F05)
 
Thinking Like the Pros and Cons (By Don Oldenburg, April 23, 2006, Page F05)
 
Hit-and-Miss List (By Don Oldenburg, April 9, 2006, Page F05)
 
Hook, Line and Sucker (By Don Oldenburg, April 2, 2006, Page F05)
 
Katrina Cars and Rita Rip-Offs (By Don Oldenburg, March 26, 2006, Page F05)
 
Good Old Samoas? (By Don Oldenburg, March 19, 2006, Page F05)
 
Everything You Ever Knew About Yourself -- for $79.95 (By Don Oldenburg, March 12, 2006, Page F05)
 
Time Out on Cash Back (By Don Oldenburg, March 5, 2006, Page F05)
 
Recourse for When That Sweet Ride Turns Sour (By Don Oldenburg, February 26, 2006, Page F05)
 
Good Numbers, Bad Names (By Don Oldenburg, February 19, 2006, Page F05)
 
One Mother's Wake-Up Call (By Don Oldenburg, February 12, 2006, Page F05)
 
Consummate Consumer: Let's End This Name-Calling (By Don Oldenburg, February 5, 2006, Page F01)
 
A Private Eye on the Paper Trail (By Don Oldenburg, January 29, 2006, Page F05)
 
Inscription Suspicion (By Don Oldenburg, January 22, 2006, Page F05)
 
A Bagging of Tricks (By Don Oldenburg, January 15, 2006, Page F05)
 
Double Trouble (By Don Oldenburg, January 8, 2006, Page F06)
 
Consummate Consumer: Customer Wishes By the Dozen (By Don Oldenburg, January 1, 2006, Page F01)
 
Best of the Holiday Bullhorn (By Don Oldenburg, December 18, 2005, Page F05)
 
A Chorus of Voices for Child Safety (By Don Oldenburg, December 11, 2005, Page F05)
 
Practical Plastic (By Don Oldenburg, December 4, 2005, Page F05)
 
Consummate Consumer: Talking Back To the Junk Fax (By Don Oldenburg, November 27, 2005, Page F01)
 
Consummate Consumer: Talking Back To the Junk Fax (By Don Oldenburg, November 27, 2005, Page F01)
 
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