Posted by Leefe on 28 September 2008 – 5:07 pm
Filed under Email
Tagged as scam, spam, trojan, virus
Ah, the joys having a email address published on a web site. All the fun spam you get.
I received this email claiming to be from the “Internet Service Provider Consorcium“. With an attached zip file.
From: “ICS Monitoring Team” <address@removed.to.protect.the.spoofed>
To: “client” <my@address>
Subject: Your internet access is going to get suspended
Your internet access is going to get suspended
The Internet Service Provider Consorcium was made to protect the rights of software authors, artists.
We conduct regular wiretapping on our networks, to monitor criminal acts.
We are aware of your illegal activities on the internet wich were originating from
You can check the report of your activities in the past 6 month that we have attached. We strongly advise you to stop your activities regarding the illegal downloading of copyrighted material of your internet access will be suspended.
Sincerely
ICS Monitoring Team
Pity they can’t spell Consortium. Their grammar needs some work. And shouldn’t their acronym be ‘ISPC’ not ‘ICS’?
I wonder when scammers will start to work on their spelling and grammar? Though, it must work for them to continue trying. I suppose most people just skim their email, so spelling mistakes are missed. And once they get the just of this one, they are too worried to notice.
Have a read of what other people are saying about this scam:
Posted by Leefe on 21 September 2008 – 10:41 am
Found this package in a drug store* in Tokyo. A 3 pack of 2000 condoms. Who do you think would need 6000 condoms?
Well, reading the side of the pack it only contains 12 and 2000 is just the model number. Seems a little misleading though.
*’drug stores’ in Japan are like chemists in Australia, except they don’t sell prescription medicine. For that you need to go to a ‘pharmacy’.
Posted by Leefe on 13 September 2008 – 8:11 pm
Seeing at the Paralympic are now on I have updated the BOMC widget to display their medal results.
I’m in the process of rewriting the backend of the widget (seeing as this is an experiment of using JQuery in Widgets), but thought you might like it now. So here is the existing code set to display results for the Paralympics.
Beijing Olympic Medal Count Dashboard Widget
And it actually has an icon now. 
(An interesting problem I will have to investigate later is that the scrolling text area scrolls, using the mouse wheel, but the scroll bars don’t appear.)
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Posted by Leefe on 3 September 2008 – 8:48 pm
Filed under Photos, Uni
Tagged as photo, shadow, TAFE, UTS
Former TAFE building opposite UTS building 10 on Wattle St. Sydney, Australia
It was interesting to find this photo of the building, because it doesn’t exist any more. Having been knocked down earlier this year for more green area at the uni.
(4 October 2007)
