Facebook Virus Removal Tool
This is going the rounds on the Internet.
Hello,
This is a message to all Facebookers, we have had several reports of a virus spreafing itself through Facebook applications, if you or any of your friends have used any of the following applications within the past 48 hours it is essential that you run the “Facebook Virus Removal Tool” which is attached to this email. Please be aware of the threat these viruses contain, they log keystrokes on certain banking websites in order to steal your I.D.
Thank you for your cooperation to stop these theifs!
It’s actually a virus addition tool to find out the secrets of your computer, bank account and personal details.
Note the spelling. “i” before “e” except after “th”.
Job Scam – Hyde Park Hotel
I’ve stayed in the Hyde Park Hotel and very good it was too. But it is now called the Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park Hotel, so when I got the e-mail below I thought something was not correct. It now turns out there is now a new hotel called The Hyde Park Hotel, so I suspect that the scam is based on the fact that the hotel has just opened and it has a very good name to use to fool people.
Good day, I am applying through online and Hyde Park Hotel send me an application form and other documents regarding my application. I’ve done in the documents for for signing with that documents and email them back for the documents. Then day past they e-mail me back again they advice me to Print the Employment form out and fill it up then forward the filled Employment form to UK Home Immigration Office for your work visa process, through their e-mail contact address, ukhomeimmigrationbureau@yahoo.co.uk
Then after that the UK Home Immigration email me back they are requiring me to pass some of the necessary documents in order to process my visa. I have pass all the documents except one of their requirements and that is the LABOUR AUTHORIZATION CERTIFICATE from the UK Labour Department Office with their contact e-mail address, uklabourdepartmentoffice@googlemail.com
They require me to contact that e-mail address so I have send an e-mail that I am inquiring on their office about the Labour Authorization Certificate. Then day past I have receive an e-mail from UK Labour Department Office. The E-mail contains Labour Research Department, Department for Work and Pensions, Richmond House 79 Whitehall , London SW1A 2NS, UNITED KINGDOM , TEL +44703 180 4830.
Their message contains below :-
We’re here by sub-let you be aware, that you are obliged to send to our office, these below documents, for the further procession & approval of your labour Authorization certificate, as well as the regime dispensation fee: (176 Pounds per each applicant), to facilitate our office approval coverage & sending of your skilled workers labour Authorization certificate, which we have customary & promise to process now. When writing back to us, you’re urging to send together with yours:
1. Full Photo Picture of yours; one copy.
2. Your Contract Agreements Letter; from Hyde Park Hotel Management.
3. Your labour processing Authorization certificate fee; total amount = (176 GBP. per each applicant)Memorandum:
Ours office received your visa file references number, from the Immigration Visa subdivision and bear in mind that after 6 working days without your accomplishment & forwarding of these required documents to our office back, for further procession of your labour Authorization certificate, we will lapse your visa ref file number including all the documents, which you sent to us.
You’re instructed to use this information when transferring your processing fee to our office.
Payment must be made through western union money transfer order, to our office.. You have to use the name of our office financial department Accountant to make your payment, and then forward it together with your affirmations to us.
Here are the essentials details that you have to use for the payment processing fee at any western Union Agent/ Bank there in your country.
RECEIVER’S NAME : SEVERINA ALVES
AMOUNT 176 POUNDS
DESTINATION : ENGLAND – UNITED KINGDOM
ADDRESS : 79 Whitehall, London SW1A 2NS, UK .
Also you have to attach the payment transfer slip from the bank, for our office verification too.
Ones more you’re welcome to our beautiful country United Kingdom , with due respect we did appreciate your efforts towards the preparation of your work approval code & permit procession with ours office. Ours administration has staffs that, speaks five different Eastern-European languages in total, which enables them to screen candidates more effectively and promptly, then deal with day-to-day issues with temporary entering visitors.
This Labour sector is meant for overseas workforce programme section, for skilled workers registering and maintaining of their personal work details in strict compliance with Home Office requirements on prevention of illegal migrants & illegal work force’s in UK Cities..
Here our director general must stamp and sign your { UK Skilled Workers
Labour Authorization Certificate} and then file it in our labour statistics as to be use during the pension service also must be approved before the Immigration office can granted you visa pin code.This subdivision has close relationship with HM Immigration Office London, where your visa approval code will be issue to you, after we have approved you’re: (L.A.C) which must be done immediately we received the above requested documents and the Labour government processing fee, from you to enable us proceed further also in aspect of registering your information’s for pensions and pension schemes.
We look forward to helping you come to the United Kingdom !
Best Regards,
Mr Wilson Larry
Minister of State (Work)
Department for Work and Pensions
It contains all of the clues; e-mail addresses from Yahoo and Googleman, expensive +4470 phone numbers, bad and US spellings etc.
Note that Wilson Larry or Larry Wilson does not seem to exist and I can’t find any other posting of this scam on the Internet, so it may be a very new scam.
Don’t ever send these crooks any money.
Sir Chris Newson
Whoever wrote this obviously got a Z in English language.
Dear
With Due-respect I seek your consent to have a discussion with you. Do you suggest through your email or Phone Conversation??? .
You’re Name and Contact is needed.
Thanks
Sir Chris Newson
Chief Executive Officer ( CEO)
Stanbic IBTC Bank
E-Mial:newsonchris3@naseej.com
Tel: 234-80- 7999-8449
Note the spelling of e-mail and the Nigerian phone number.
The idiot needs certifying. It would be funny, if no-one believed him. But then there is one born every minute.
New Labour = NuLabor
On many forums or should that be fora, comments often contain the word NuLabor as a shortened form of New Labour.
I notice that no-one had registered the domain name, www.nulabor.co.uk. Unfortunately, www.nulabor.com had already been registered, but then I don’t think it was worth spending more than £6 or so for a bit of fun.
I registered the domain name at Low Cost Names. I have used them for some time and have never had a problem.
Twitter Twat
David Wright is the Nulabor MP for Telford and a whip. So you’d think he know how to behave.
But he’s in trouble for a tweet on Twitter, that calls the Tories, “scum-sucking”. Now, he is claiming that the tweet was edited by a third party. If it was, his security has been compromised probably by his own stupidity. If he’s not, he’s lying to try and save his skin.
But whatever is the reason, he just doesn’t understand things like Twitter. You have to be subtle in my view too, to get your message across.
I hope that the good people of Telford consign him to where he belongs at the next election.
Spam Messages
This was the body of a spam e-mail I received.
Introduction The girl scout around a crane caricatures a flabby cloud formation. Another most difficult eggplant operates a small fruit stand with a carelessly polka-dotted deficit. If the mortician steals pencils from a bullfrog, then a fundraiser defined by the tomato ceases to exist. If a For example, a tornado about a tomato indicates that a cheese wheel about the wheelbarrow writes a love letter to a paper napkin. Some corporation over a tornado hesitantly is a big fan of another tomato from the freight train. A cargo bay is impromptu. A rude minivan rejoices, and the wheelbarrow caricatures a ball bearing. When the dust bunny living with a tornado is proverbial, some geosynchronous polar bear sanitizes the cab driver. Now and then, the globule gives a pink slip to the prime minister from a customer. The tape recorder aro faults with a soggy polygon. Introduction A buzzard recognizes a greedily rude crane. Most people believe that a lover about a satellite reaches an understanding with a diskette near the parking lot, but they need to remember how wisely the sandwich gets stinking drunk. When a pompous burglar returns home, an umbrella prays. nWUQPeBMQIZgCH[AXUThe formless void borrows money from a customer behind the stovepipe. A deficit derives r freight train laughs out loud, a demon earns frequent flier miles. A canyon around the grain of sand is hypnotic. Any grand piano can organize a crane, but it takes a real eggplant to seek the magnificent crane. When the turkey is frozen, a class action suit slyly figures out an apartment building. Indeed, the hockey player caricatures the tornado. When you see the canyon, it means that a crane beyond a formless void prays. Introduction When another mortician toward the blithe spirit is college-educated, a CEO inside the apartment building sanitizes the accidentally slow razor blade. A cocker spaniel is boiled. Sometimes a most difficult dolphin beams with joy, but a hydrogen atom always has a change of heart about the burglar! When a completely makeshift hydrogen atom leaves, a single-handledly load bearing recliner hides. carpet tack about a short order cook plans an escape from a gentle light bulb the cashier inside a dust bunny. The oil filter living with the skyscraper Indeed, the chestnut defined by some nation knowingly laughs and drinks all night with a turn signal living with some polar bear. A proverbial defendant is rude. The overripe cyprus mulch steals pencils from a stoic fruit cake. Any vacuum cleaner can negotiate a prenuptial agreement with a tripod related to a polygon, but it takes a real bottle of beer to accidentally share a shower with a vacuum cleaner over some cyprus mulch. An apartment building self-flagellates, and a completely tattered deficit takes a coffee break; however, a tripod over a pine cone buries the ostensibly twisted avocado pit. The feverishly loyal inferiority complex sells an eggplant inside the tuba player to the earring, but the customer somewhat finds lice on a cough syrup. When a hockey player for the roller coaster is cosmopolitan, another foreign reactor sanitizes the slyly dirt-encrusted briar patch. Furthermore, a nuclear cargo bay ruminates, and the Alaskan squid dances with the eggplant about a rattlesnake.
You could imagine Richard Burton or Eric Cantona reading it. It would still not make sense, but it would have a certain lilt to it.
As a programmer though, you have to admire the man, who wrote the program that writes this rubbish.
Blogger Abandons FTP
I use Blogger to create news pages within web sites. This approach is good as it enables anybody to update the news without disturbing the actual web site. It also has advantages in that as Blogger updates the search engines directly, any changes are reflected immediately.
In most of the sites, I have used FTP to update the blogs, but Blogger have recently announced that FTP support will be discontinued.
I had felt this would be a problem, but if you look at my stud web site, Freedom Farm, you’ll now see that it uses a standard blogspot address, freedomfarmnews.blogspot.com.
The web site works as well as before, but I’m afraid it’s lost all it’s search engine history, so I’ll have to grow the blog from start again. I suspect too, that because the web site is now hosted on a different url to the news, that the two will not work as well together. That is probably a good reason to use WordPress for a combination of a web site and news.
But if you want still keep to Blogger, there wasn’t too many problems.
- I had to change all of the links, but this was a global edit in the web site and a few changes to the template.
- By default you get the Blogger NavBar, which is annoying in a web site. However there is a patch to put in the template to remove it. The details are here.
But otherwise it was painless.
I wouldn’t use Blogger again for this purpose, as it’ll probably degrade the search engine performance significantly, as the link between the web site and news are broken.
Cutting Unemployment
I run a couple of small businesses; one is a computer software firm and the other is a thoroughbred stud.
I have a problem on the stud in that work is distinctly seasonal and so some of the essential maintenance jobs that no-one really likes to do, get put to the bottom of the queue, when other more important things come up. For instance, if it means having an injured horse for rest after a racing injury, which requires extra care time, then this will take precedence over say painting fences or renewing a badly worn gateway, because the former is better for your cash flow.
In the past twenty years or so, whilst my late wife and I have run the stud, we’ve often needed someone for say a month or two for these maintenance and other tasks. Usually, we’ve subcontracted to a building firm, who don’t like these sort of small jobs and charge much more than say employing someone for a couple of months.
What is needed is a computer system based on the technology used on many web sites, to match the unemployed to the small jobs available. The site might be something like a cross between a dating-site for something like The Times and eBay.
Suppose you chose someone from this web site for a job that would last anything upwards of a week.
You would pay the site, which would then pay the employee directly and automatically adjust their benefit, so that they avoided the problem of going on and off benefit. After they’d finished, you would then assess their work and post it with ratings on the web site.
I think that this would have benefits for both employers and claimants.
Employers and especially small ones, would have a simple means of bridging that temporary labour problem without any great hassle. They could also read the references of those available for employment in their area and may well choose an employee whose skills and experience matched their needs. In the case of the stud, I’d probably do jobs where I can easily find people to do them. For instance, I have several painting jobs that need doing, so if I found someone, who had experience of industrial painting, then that job would be done.
Claimants would benefit from the work and the extra money, and because they were rated, this would increase their chances of getting full employment. The system would also benefit, those who perhaps because of circumstances like age, children and disability, did not need or want to work all of the year.
It is an idea, that I feel needs to be examined. As a computer scientist, I don’t believe that setting it up would be the biggest of technological problems, although asking the government to do it would probably be a disaster.
Jim Bennett
I get a lot of spam. This is an interesting one.
My name is Jim .E. Bennett, I am a citizen of United State of America and the Executive Director of SPD Corporation, a multi-national oil corporation operating from London-England, UK. I am seeking your assistance to retrieve the sum of ( fifteen Million Dollars Only), consisting of two Consignments boxes.
This money was acquired from over invoice and it was accompanied by a diplomat to the U.S.A, my reason for this is because I have been cheated out of my entitlements by the company for too long simply because I am not a British Citizen.The details of the diplomat will be given to you if you indicate your interest to help me.
The two boxes content is $15M and for your help I am ready to release 30% to you, for security reasons the consignments was registered to be ( CONFIDENTIAL DIPLOMATIC DOCUMENTS), and I can explain why it was declared so. Bear in mind that the diplomat is not aware of the content of the two Consignments boxes , it has been there for the past 1 month as I’m looking for a reliable partner.
I will be leaving the country immediately the consignments is delivered to you for my private investment and I have vowed never to step back into London, England. Please, I need your urgent response before my plans to leave the company is discovered.
Please if you are not willing and interested in helping me kindly delete this e-mail from your computer and pretend you never got it.
I’m pretending I haven’t got this e-mail, so if you read this, then please pass it on, so that no-one gets conned by this crook.
One point is that he says he will be leaving London immediately the consignments are delivered. Funny, that but the e-mail came from China.
Banking Security
I don’t like internet banking. Well to be truthful, I like the concept, but some of the implementations of it are rather poor.
Take my bank. I need to enter my account reference, a password and then three numbers from a key code. I can remember these in most cases, but if I access the account from someone else’s computer, I need to have the account reference written down. But I do write it down in a way that no-one could ascertain.
Although it is a system that works, it is not the best. It is typical of many systems used to login to on-line banking.
I am a mentor on The Horse’s Mouth, which is a web site where people put ideas and others pass comments. It is an interesting concept and from what I read in the press, it is highly regarded.
In the last few days, the web site has put me in touch with a company called SafeTok.
It looks like it could be a solution to better Internet security.
But then I am not an expert in this field. But then I’m a consumer who knows what I don’t like.
The Anonymous Widower 