The scam business continues. Just got what I think was another PPI mis-selling call via automated call to my mobile. The originating number was 07588034908. I was expecting a call and was just trying to figure out if this was it at the same time as answering the phone so I missed the first half […]
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Landline use in decline Landline use seems to be in decline. When I got into the office this morning I called home. I’d lost a tie and thought I might have dropped it on our drive. When I want to call someone my usual way is to go to the logs on my phone and […]
I’ve had a few calls from pests lying to me that could recover mis-sold Payment Protection Insurance (PPI). I know they are lying because I have never taken this sort of insurance out. Today I received a text message from 07879989478 saying: “Records passed to us show you’re entitled to a refund approximately £2130 in compensation […]
I’m getting a lot of traffic for the post on the Telephone Preference Service. It’s no surprise. If your house is anything like ours we get scam calls on a daily basis. Someone needs to do something about it. We have varying strategies for dealing with the scammers in our house. These range from keeping […]
Just took a call from a mobile number on my mobile. It was an Indian sounding lady representing the Consumer Advice Bureau. She wasn’t trying to take money off me or sell me anything or any scam like that which is a nice change. So many of these cold calls are from dodgy sources. Anyway […]
Jonathan Radford our CFO is one of the least techy guys you could hope to meet. He is often also the source of ideas for this “technical” blog because technology now reaches absolutely everyone on this planet one way or another. Today he came up for a chat about Internet 2 and Project Phoenix and […]
This morning I joined Empire Avenue and got the ticker symbol TREF – v important I’m sure you agree. I did it because people I interact with on Twitter have done so and being a sheep I followed. I hooked my Empire Avenue account up with Linked In, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube and then bought […]
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Phishing – direct mail style
Just received my first ever phishing attempt via direct mail! With a second class stamp on it:) The only means of contact are a ymail address and two Chinese telephone numbers, one of which is a fax line. The funny thing is if I had received this letter ten years ago I might not have been […]
I met with the Police Central eCrime Unit last year as part on an ISPA group that wanted to understand the issues that police have in fighting internet related crime and to see whether there is anything that we could do to help. The police’s biggest problem is the speed that things can happen at […]
The IPv4 address pool dropped to 4% remaining yesterday, or at least that’s when I noticed. Nov 16 2009 10% – dropped through 400,000,000 mark Jan 20th 9% Feb 25th 8% May 10th 7% June 2nd 6% August 5% Oct 18th 4% I’m still sticking to my February 24th 2011 date for exhaustion – that’s […]
Dear Sir I am the widow of Major General Ndabeninge Ndabeninge of the Nigerian Army Internet Warfare Division. Before he mysteriously died of a particularly potent computer virus my honourable and most beloved husband was very active in AfriNIC, the African Internet Registry and was able to secure a /8 block of IPv4 addresses for […]
Sebastien Lahtinen is probably most well known for being behind the independent broadband advice website thinkbroadband.com which helps broadband users to get the most out of their broadband connection. He has also been involved in the policy development and governance processes of Nominet, and is a candidate in the current elections for a seat on […]
With all the fuss in the press about Google and their possible exit from the Chinese market I got a timely email this morning from the (a?) Chinese Domain Name registry. We are the department of registration service in China. we have something need to confirm with you. We formally received an application on February 03,2010, […]
As I’m sure most of you know Phishing is a scam whereby unfriendly persons try to coax confidential account details out of individuals so that they can attempt to steal things. We are talking bank account information, network logons etc. Well this morning Timico was subjected to a phishing attack and many users were sent […]