While reviewing a client site, I recently noticed a small number of accounts had registered with spurious firstName and lastName values such as: firstName:You have 5 new messages from Patty: lastName: 12 firstName:You have 5 new messages from Patty:lastName: After some digging, it appeared these customers had legitimate email addresses, however had placed no orders, nor had they interacted with...
Today, I purchased tickets for the Farnborough Air Show 2014, at a cost of £48 each.
As if that wasn’t bad enough, there was a £0.50p charge to print my tickets at home!
The charge was the same for collecting from the Box Office.
For convenience, I printed the tickets at home, but feel this charge is totally unjustified.
I received a spam email earlier this week from a guy claiming to be John from Discover Media, asking to place an article on my blog, with a link to his ‘client’ site.His email address was john@discovermedia.co.uk Hi,I work for a company called Discover Media, acting on behalf of a...
Received this email earlier this week… After some googling, I have determined that it’s a scam, and there’s usually a zip file attached. GMail had removed this zip file though I think. This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged, proprietary, or otherwise private information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately...
Back in October, I wrote about a domain name appraisal scam. It appears this is still doing the rounds, but has changed wording slightly. Below is the transcript of messages: Make no mistake, THIS IS A SCAM From: coddington@thedomaininvestors.com Sent: 18 March 2010...