Archive for January 30th, 2008

Jan 30 2008

Aye me hearty’s, the scallywags be stealin me booty!

Posted by: melissa in Phishing Trip
Phishing Trip

Found this in me inbox this wet mornin’

"Received: from mail.adp-hvac.com (dsl017-030-060.lax1.dsl.speakeasy.net [69.17.30.60])
Received: from User ([202.65.139.14]) by mail.adp-hvac.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713);
          Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:36:52 -0800
Reply-To: <service@navyfcu.org>
From: "service@navyfcu.org"<service@navyfcu.org>
Subject: Message from Navy Federal Customer Service
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 07:05:31 +0530
MIME-Version: 1.0
X-Priority: 1 (High)
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X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000
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Message-ID: <ADP-SERVERPe8vZ3fC8000005ff@mail.adp-hvac.com>
X-OriginalArrivalTime: 30 Jan 2008 01:36:53.0230 (UTC) FILETIME=[976600E0:01C862E0]
X-MIMETrack: Itemize by SMTP Server on notesmta2.cc.sunysb.edu/DoIT(Release 7.0.3|September
 26, 2007) at 01/29/2008 08:37:03 PM,
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Message from Navy Federal Credit Union accounts Customer Service
Account : Savings
Date: 1/29/2008

All Navy Federal Credit Union accounts were recently update with a new security enhancement.

You need to reactivate your VISA debit card by the end of January 2008.

For your security, we recommends that you activate this feature.

To continue click on the link :

http://www.sigmapens.co.uk/shop/catalog/navyfederalcreditunion/

Thank you for banking with Navy Federal Credit Union accounts"

Dear screwup:

  1. I’m in the United States, NOT the United Kingdom.
  2. My alliances with maritime military are with the United States Coast Guard, NOT the "Navy".
  3. I don’t have any accounts with a military based credit union.
  4. Why would a military credit union have a website for Sigma Pens?

Ye be a friggin idiot. It’s the keelhaul fer all ye scurvy dogs.

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Jan 30 2008

The Power of the ‘Styrene Acrylate Copolymer’, Yeah!

Posted by: melissa in ScumBusters, Scams
Scams

So, yesterday I got my feathers all ruffled and set off to right the wrongs of the evil-doers against us honest bloggers who work hard to rid the virtual world of all dirtbags and make the Interwebs a happy place for those NooB’s out there floating around on the bandwidth without a clue.

Readers should note that this action usually ends badly for moi; the squeaky wheel doesn’t get any grease, and the flogging continues until I back down and return to my corner to sob about the injustices of the world, and how MEAN PEOPLE TOTALLY SUCK.

Waaayulllll, Shiver my timbers and bust my buckle, and toss in a "Holy Crap" to really drive home my enthusiasm!

I’m happy to report that, [although my morning didn’t start well, after all, I had to wake up, and then it was dark and rainy……] things have perked up considerably since getting my morning bucket of coffee!

Busted-scams is, well, B.U.S.T.E.D!

I found a letter in my inbox this morning from the domain owner. As he has requested that I not include the contents of the letter or his name online, I will respect that and just let you know the basic gist of the letter.

He says that he owns hundreds of domain names and that he normally just "parks" the unused ones so they earn a bit of ad income. He decided to allow an intern to have some fun with this and 4 other domains and do whatever he wanted with them. The intern mentioned something about programs, but in his hurried schedule he did not devote any time to the details about what programs his intern wanted to use.

The intern used a "content scraper" to populate these domains.

I sincerely hope this intern has learned a hard lesson and will use the experience to grow into a respectable and honest IT professional rather than just another one of the rotten filth roaming the Web looking to screw the innocent and make a quick buck/rouble/yuan/euro at the expense of the rest of us!

I’ll be prominently placing my Creative Commons license on this site as soon as I can figure out why it throws an error in my WPµ server.

Stealing is a crime; it diminishes the soul of the thief and causes harm, whether financial or spiritually, to the victim. While words themselves can not be "owned", the composition of many words into a work can, and is, owned by the composer, just as is music or artwork. You will be a much happier person, inside and out, if you EARN your life rather than steal it from someone else!

So, good Netizens of the Interwebs, us Underdogs won this one. But, we can not sit on our laurels, or our tuckus, we have much to do yet.

*"When pondscum on this web appear,
And break the laws that they should fear,
And scam all who see or hear,
The cry goes up both far and near for
Underdog! Underdog! Underdog! Underdog!
Speed of lightning! Roar of thunder!
Fighting all who rob or plunder!
Underdog! Underdog! Underdog!"

…Quick! I hear Sweet Polly Purebred crying out for help. The evil Simon Bar Sinister must be near!

 * Underdog’s famous quote, slightly modified to fit the Web.

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