Spamming! Innovation abound

Who said the spammers are dead? Well if no one has, my apologies.. :D . They aren't.
And guess what, the new phishing people (the phish people) are capable of cheating even the mighty google and that too, at their own home turf -The Anti webmail spam technology.Here's a mail that cheated their most efficient spam filters(my gmail inbox is virtually spam free , so even occasional glitches get highlighted ;) . sorry google).And this time, its not the usual *****, its JOB OPENING .How they knew i was jobless is a different story altogether :P.

JOB OPENING
brenda flisher Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 8:38 AM
Reply-To: brenda_consult03@yahoo.com
Hello,


We are offering this position (Accounts Receivable Officer) interested applicants. Please carefully read through. We serve the entire United States and a growing export market, particularly in the supplies of selected products.

Superior products including Sofas & Love seats, Bedding Ensembles, Chairs & Ottomans...Your primarytask for now, as a representative of the company is to coordinate payments from customers and help us with the payments processing. You are not involved in any sales for now.

Once orders are received and sorted we deliver the product to a customer. After this has been done the customer has to pay for the products but in most cases we make our clients prepay for orders or items they ordered for.

About 90 percent of our customers prefer to pay through Cashiers Checks or Money Orders or Cash drawn from the United States. Because of the increasing number of clients, We have decided to open this new contract -to-hire job position for solving this problem.

Your First Primary task(Collection of Payments):
1. Receive payment from our Customers or Clients..
2. Cash Payment at your Bank or any cashing facilities near you.
3. Deduct 10% which will be your percentage/pay on Payment processed .
4. Forward balance after deduction of percentage/pay to any of the offices you will be contacted to send payment to.

You'll have a lot of free time doing another job because this job is part-time.. You'll receive good income. Get back to us with the below information so that we can add your mailing address to our regional database and forward it to our customers for them to send payments.

NAME:
HOME ADDRESS (NOT P.O BOX ADDRESS):
CITY:
STATE:
ZIP CODE:
COUNTRY:
PHONE NUMBER:
EMAIL ADDRESS:
PRESENT OCCUPATION:
AGE:

Human Resources Department,
Regional Manager,
GLASSGOW FURNITURE COMPANY
Email:brenda_consult03@yahoo.com


At GLASSGOW FURNITURE, We are proud of our past, encouraged for our future and genuinely excited to make furnitures for the most important people there are - you.

BRENDA FLISHER
FOR: GLASSGOW FURNITURE

I googled the name brenda flisher to no avail. Maybe time shall cast light upon this mysterious woman, whom i shall call hence forth - 'The Woman' .

Sherlock style

Best of Web - 1

http://ubersuper.com/ . As the name indicates, it indeed is a super site with ubundant creative photography skills displayed. And guess what? "it's all for free" !!!! .

Nice photos. You'll love it. Here's a glimpse to what awaits you at this beautiful site.

9/11 wikileaks

Wikileaks at http://911.wikileaks.org/ have given unprecedented access to the pager data of all the officials and individuals in and around the NewYork city about the time the 9/11 events were unfolding.

9/11 tragedy pager intercepts.

From 3AM on Wednesday November 25, 2009, until 3AM the following day (US
east coast time), WikiLeaks released half a million US national
text pager intercepts. The intercepts cover a 24 hour period surrounding the
September 11, 2001 attacks in New York and Washington.

The messages were broadcasted "live" to the global community —
sychronized to the time of day they were sent. The first message was from 3AM
September 11, 2001, five hours before the first attack, and the last, 24
hours later.

Text pagers are usualy carried by persons operating in an official
capacity. Messages in the archive range from Pentagon, FBI, FEMA and New York Police
Department exchanges, to computers reporting faults at investment banks
inside the World Trade Center

The archive is a completely objective record of the defining moment of
our time. We hope that its entrance into the historical record will
lead to a nuanced understanding of how this event led to death, opportunism and war.

Twitter users may use the hashtag

#911txts. We will give status updates at twitter.com/wikileaks.

Observations may be

posted to reddit. Please vote for important material.

Please remember to

protect and support our work.

An index of messages released is available here.

All pager messages released can be downloaded here as a single compressed text file.

BSNL launches prepaid broadband

BSNL has come up with yet another innovative scheme. This time its broadband and guess what , it has gone prepaid.I recommend BSNL because i have been its subscriber since their plan 250 was introduced. Superior quality coupled with low prices with excellent customer care service. That's BSNL for you.

Check it up here. http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/19/stories/2009111961780300.htm

Oprah Winfrey to End Her Talk Show !!

I don't know much about this talk show simply because i haven't seen even a single episode. However one need not see a thing to believe it. So it came as a shocker when news about drawing the final curtains on the show broke.
Well , it had to end some day.And no better time to stop than when the show is going well, sitting on the top of the charts with loyal viewers who have nothing bad to say.

This is the original news article on the topic. http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/19/oprah-winfrey-to-end-her-talk-show/?hp&emc=na

Kerala KSRTC booking goes online

Kerala KSRTC a.k.a aana vandi has gone online (Late as USUAL).

Here is the link - http://keralartconline.com/

Finally our kerala govt has caught up with the rest of the states. Only thing to be seen is whether this will be a case of the classic "too little, too late". I got to know it from this obscure article in The Hindu.
The site offers booking for some 180 bus services including for intra state transportation.How many will avail of this service is something that remains to be seen.
The booking for inter state services seems to be good.With the fare far below than what is offered by other bus services. I have not tested how robust is the site with transactions. Or what are the means through which transactions can be done - net banking or credit/debit cards.

Netted?

Another of those beta sites that tell you what's interesting out there in the WWW.
I got this site from webby awards site. Since subscribing to it , i have received only two mails. http://www.netted.net/ Going there isn't much use to anyone. They have made registration mandatory to subscribe.

Tactics

;).

And their claim to send one GOOD mail everyday , Well, that ain't the case for me.