Archives for September 2006

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Scammers Hitting Australia Today

The last thing I expected is that my blog becomes a way to track the path of an international scam campaign.  All I did ( or so I thought) was let some steam off when I posted Scammers Are Getting Smart a good week ago.  I guess:

  • the scam was first insignificant enough that only I posted about it, thus getting the #1 position on Google for the search term “Krbill.llc”
  • than it got widespread enough that a lot of people are actually searching for it… I am getting a lot of hits on this post. ( I wish some of the more thoughtful, analytical posts saw this kind of traffic).

Today must be the day of the Australia is invaded: I am seeing hundreds of hits all coming from Google Australia.

I’d like to repeat I am not a scam or security expert, but several commenters to the original post suggested a hidden iframe on the web page will attempt to place malware on your computer, so all I can suggest is:

  • do not click the link
  • delete the offending email
  • run full antivirus and spyware scans.

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15 Aliens ICE’d in Roswell

Finally we have evidence there really are aliens in Roswell, GA. NM. (thanks for the correction, Vinnie!) Not little green ones … well, perhaps little, but definitely not green.  They must have successfully assimilated, for ICE, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement mistakenly thinks  they are human citizens of Mexico, El Salvador and Guatemala.

They were caught in the act of painting U.S. military aircraft, including a Lockheed C-130.  Not as part of same alien / terrorist conspiracy, but on the payroll of a US military contractor.

The aliens will be processed, which includes thorough background checks, then beamed back to their land of origin.

(source: ICE news release)

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Enterprise 2.0 Stays in Wikipedia

Common sense prevails, the deletion debate I’ve previously criticized is now closed:

The result was keep. The arguments for deletion are not to my mind persuasive, and it turns out that rather than being a neologism, the term has in fact been around for some time. There is no question that we need an article about this subject…”

Here’s the current article for Enterprise 2.0.  Now, let’s show how wikipedia is really used by working on refining the current definition!

As a member of the Editorial Board for the Office 2.0 Conference, I happen to know we’ll be discussing highly relevant subjects, so if you’re interested, you can register by clicking the banner:

 

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