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Comment on European City Guide Scammers – Back in business? by Dragon's Thinking » Blog Archive » World Business Guide – Business directory scam

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 12:15:29 +0000

[...] Business guide appears to be a new version of the European City Guide Scam. This particular one arrives as a spam email, asking a company “To update your company [...]

Comment on Domain Registry of America Scammer by Dragon’s Thinking » Blog Archive » Domain Renewal Group - scam

Dragon’s Thinking » Blog Archive » Domain Renewal Group - scam — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 13:56:15 +0000

[...] the Domain Registry of America Scam, I wrote about their practice of sending letters that look like a bill for domain renewal. They [...]

Comment on Island reef improves by Dragon’s Thinking » Blog Archive » islandreefjob.com not firefox compatible.

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 14:43:40 +0000

[...] the promoters of “The best job in the world” seem to have fixed most of their problems, it appears that the designers of http://www.islandreef.com have failed to get their site fully working [...]

Comment on Island Reef Job Phenomenon – Collapsing under it’s own weight. by Dragon’s Thinking » Blog Archive » Island reef improves

Dragon’s Thinking » Blog Archive » Island reef improves — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 09:49:02 +0000

[...] yesterday’s post about problems accessing islandreefjob.com it seem that Tourism Queensland’s web hosts have [...]

Comment on Mobile Phone ring-back scam by dave_ukse

dave_ukse — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 13:47:03 +0000

None of the numbers listed are premium rate numbers though!!!!! Although its frustrating receiving these calls (and i get lots) i have looked in to this quite throughly.

Look at the ofcom website which advises about so called follow me 070 numbers and explains more about these mobile type scams.. All numbers connected to the scam mentioned start with 070 which is a premium rate number that looks like a mobile number but is charged at 50p per minute.

The numbers above look to me like stardard mobile numbers used for telemarketing numnbers not premium rate!!

Comment on S500i by Dragon’s Thinking » Blog Archive » Sony Ericsson PC-Suite Verision 3

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:30:11 +0000

[...] Ericsson have updated their PC-Suite for communicating with Sony-Ericsson mobile phones, such as my S500i, I looked in vain for an update option on the software. I feel that failing to implement direct [...]

Comment on S500i by Dragon’s Thinking » Blog Archive » S500i SIM problem

Dragon’s Thinking » Blog Archive » S500i SIM problem — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:29:56 +0000

[...] S500i I discussed the difficulties of installing the supporting software for my new Sony Ericsson S500i [...]

Comment on Mobile Phone ring-back scam by dclarke

dclarke — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:07:26 +0000

The newer variant, of this involves the scammer leaving a very indistinct, very brief message on the voicemail.

This presumably is to encourage victims of the ring-back scam to call back, as the scammers weren’t getting a high enough call back rate to make extortionate profits.

Comment on Firefox 3 release on Tuesday 17th June by dclarke

dclarke — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:14:50 +0000

As suspected, at around 17:00 GMT, when Firefox 3 was scheduled for release, the web servers at Mozilla.com seem to be overloaded, or to have fallen over.

Either this is because of a huge number of people attempting to download Firefox as soon as it was released, or a Denial of Service attack by Microsoft Internet Explorer supporters.

For an number of reasons, I suspect it is really the first option.

Comment on Resort vacations telephone scam by dclarke

dclarke — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:43:50 +0000

I found somebody who was caught by these scammers. For Moon's story, have a look at http://www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/perfect-travel-promotions-or-ptp-c64683.html