Random thoughts and observations
Another scam email that landed in my inbox claimed to be from the Australian Taxation Office. Purporting to be from the email address refund@ato.com.au it said I was entitled to a $250 refund on my Visa or Mastercard. I knew it was fraudulent immediately, of course. The ATO doesn’t have my Yahoo! address, doesn’t communicate [...]
I’m sick of receiving spam emails claiming to be from the Commonwealth Bank. They have been flooding my ymail address for weeks and now they’re infiltrating my Google hosted email as well. I’m not even a customer of the Commonwealth Bank. But every message needs to be read and marked as spam, which wastes time [...]
I’ve been propositioned by a Russian woman, or at least someone claiming to be Russian. “Olesya” sent me an email claiming to have discovered my details “in a site of acquaintances”. Google is very good at screening spam, but this one seems to have slipped through. Olesya’s email address was (random=made up by me) pw”random”@auto-industrial.pt, [...]
The Kalgoorlie Miner this morning exposed a scam in which foreigners are selling “original” artworks door to door. Young people, believed to be Israeli or Iraqi (odd mix), claim to be art students earning a living. I’ve personally had two different sellers knock on my door in the past six months. Tweet Pin It
I first read about the Million Dollar Home Page on Hamarana in September. A 21-year-old student sold a million pixels for one dollar each. Hamarana commented it was a great idea, but not one that could or should be replicated. It seems many wannabes don’t share that view. Search google for the topic and see [...]
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