Some Fake Phone Call Scams

Recently there's quite a number of fake phone call scams around to try accumulate personal particulars and build a database to sell in the market. The market here refers to those who may be in the self-employed industries or some outsource telemarketeers, needing a pool of clientèle base to promote their products and services. Or to become worse, they can use the Database to do other things online which is too wide to be thought of.

Below is a true story of my friend's wife experience. The victim is her colleague working in the same company.

My friend's wife works in the bank. Just about 2 weeks ago, her colleague received a call out of nowhere through an office phone. The caller called to inform the colleague (the victim) that

"This is calling from the subordinate court and is calling to suspect that you are involved with a serious accidental case, but to double confirm that you are the person involving the case, give me your Name and Identity Number"

The way they ask is a kind of technique they use to ask for particulars such that they dun ask, but instead they request or order to provide them with the details accordingly.

It is also psychology kind of scenario which involves you to a serious case and such that you might be afraid and try "not get involved" so they can get the particulars easily to verify the person.

Everything in the plot seems quite perfect until the caller only speaks in Chinese...

Should the caller speaks in fluent English, the plot will be quite successful and hard to differentiate if its genuine.

The victim just simply gave out the particulars to the caller without verifying and the caller just said, "Ok, we've got the wrong person" and they just hanged up.

My friend's wife overheard the conversation halfway when she noticed her colleague was giving her personal particulars and tried to stop her colleague from giving, but it was just too late. After a while of getting hold of what's going on the phone call, my friend's wife suggested to make a police report about this.

So when the victim made a police report, to her surprise, she was the 6th victim to have made the report for similar case recently.

This seems to be the latest call trap.

My friend's wife and victim then find out more details of the different persons who encounter similar scenarios. The caller uses similar technique as mentioned above to other people.

Some are smart enough to respond that she don't understand chinese and ask if they can speak English. The caller will say they can't hear you properly as an excuse for several times after which you may have repeatedly requested them to speak English, they'll hanged up the call immediately.

Some asked for the caller's supervisor name who is in charge to verify if the call is genuine, the caller will also immediately hanged up.

As for now they only ask for Name and Identity Number, and which Identity Number basically cant do much for now unless they go borrow money from Loan Shark.

But as technology advances, who knows the Identity Number may be of useful in the future to do more convenient transactions?

Personal Particulars are meant to be kept as Personal, Private and Confidential. Should anyone calls for your particulars, do verify again and again. Just be extra Careful and make an effort to verify before giving away Personal Particulars.

SAF Fantasy, Haha....

Found this Great Clip! For those who are fans of Final Fantasy Game especially FFV, Check this out! Great Work for NCH!

For Those who are not Singaporeans, below are some terms to help you understand the slangs used in the clip, Enjoy!




Glossary
Arrow - Purposely pin-pointed to accomplish a certain task
ATK - Attack
ATP - Advanced Trainfire Programme
Chao Keng - To escape being given extra duties or responsibilities
damn sian - very boring
Downgrade - In NS term, it is to physically degrade one's physical body in such a sense that he's unfit to serve NS at all (Depends downgrading to which Category)
Extra - Extended Training Sessions
GBA - GameBoy Advanced
IPPT - Individual Physical Proficiency Test
Lao Jiao - Senior
LCP - Lanced Corporal
Nights Off - No Night Training
No.4 - An Official NS uniform
ORD - Operationally Ready Date also means get out of National Service
PTE - Private
Sai Kang - Shit Works
Siam - Escape or Run Away
Siao Liao - Crazy or Nuts
SOC - Standard Obstacle Course
Tekan - Torture
VestSlack - A set of uniform usually T-shirt and NS Pants used for Training Purposes

Bad Month for me??

This September 2007, is an unlucky month for me. On the 2nd week of September, my TV spoilt. Switching on TV, only has sound but no image. So need to go electronics shop to purchase a new TV.

Well anyway, this old TV of mine has already been use since 1996 until now, its an 29" CRT color TV and has repaired once before due to frequently using it for playing TV console games such as Playstation and Sega Saturn.

Now my new model is 26" widescreen HD ready LCD TV with PC connectivity device. This cost half of my salary gone.

A week later, on the 3rd week, my PC LCD monitor spoilt. Switching on the monitor, the screen flickering different colors without even turning on my PC yet. Once my PC was turned on, my monitor flickers to adjust the image as normal for a few seconds. Then suddenly, when goes into the window screen, the colors or contrasts turns out to be very bright!! However how hard I've tried to tune with the contrast and brightness, the brightness of the monitor was still there!

There's also some sizzling sound from my monitor power plug too! At this moment, I knew my monitor was gone.

Well this monitor has been used since 2004 bought from a PC show. It was a 15" LCD monitor only and nothing much to describe it, haha...

Now my new model is 19" LCD, 5000:1 contrast with DVI monitor. This monitor is way a lot more bigger than my old 15" LCD monitor, as the images and videos that I've viewed, are so much bigger and larger than viewing from my old LCD monitor!!! This cost another 1/8 of my salary gone.

So now I dunno if I should be delighted on my new monitors or I should be sad with some holes in my pockets... For one thing, now I've to budget myself a bit to pull my life back to normal till next month...

IT Issue: Upgrade from Boyfriend to Husband

Dear IT Support,

Last year I upgraded from Boyfriend 5.0 to Husband 1.0 and noticed a
slow down in the overall performance, particularly in the flower, gifts and
jewellery applications that had operated flawlessly under Boyfriend
5.0.

In addition, Husband 1.0 un-installed many other valuable programs,
such as Romance 9.5 and Personal Attention 6.5, but installed undesirable
programs such as Formula One 5.0, NBA 3.0 and World Cup 2.0.

And now Conversation 8.0 no longer runs and House Cleaning 2.6 simply
crashes the system. I've tried running Nagging 5.3 to fix these
problems, but to no avail.

What can I do?

Signed,
Desperate Housewife


Reply:
Dear Desperate Housewife,

First keep in mind:
Boyfriend 5.0 is an entertainment package, while Husband 1.0 is an
operating system.

Try entering the command C:\ I THOUGHT YOU LOVED ME and download
Tears 6.2 to install Guilt 3.0.

If all works as designed, Husband 1.0 should then automatically run the
applications Jewellery 2.0 and Flowers 3.5.

But remember, overuse can cause Husband 1.0 to default to Grumpy
Silence 2.5, Happy Hour 7.0 or Late Night Teh Tarik 6.1.

Late Night 6.1 is a very bad program that will create SnoringLoudly.wav
files.

Whatever you do, DO NOT install Mother-in-Law 1.0 or reinstall another
Boyfriend program. These are not supported applications and will crash
Husband 1.0.

In summary, Husband 1.0 is a great program, but it does have a limited
memory and cannot learn new application so quickly.

You might consider additional software to improve memory and
performance. I personally recommend Hot Tasty Food 3.0 and Tongkat Ali 6.9.

Good Luck,
IT Support

How to Make Ice in 5 Sec!

This is simply amazing! Gotta see this and you can try this at home!

Use Firefox Browser Perhaps!

It has come to my attention that viewers have some problem with viewing my Blog using Internet Explorer.

Indeed it has as the Internet Explorer has distorted the layout of my blog and viewers cannot see the columns on the right hand side of my blog page but rather it is loaded at the bottom of my blog...

Why not try using Firefox to browse instead. Apart that Firefox can properly align my blog, it has a lot of other advantages compared to Internet Explorer.

Users can customise and optimise the browser to

• load page faster,
  
• less vulnerable to virus attacks than Internet Explorer,
  
• can be used as another alternatives to browse in case Internet Explorer's been attacked and blocked by virus.

"Internet Explorer lacked many convenience features often-requested but never delivered. And finally, Internet Explorer did not adhere completely to web standards; it pretty much set its own standards. In short Internet Explorer lacked competition. However all that has changed since Firefox became a legitimate challenger. Firefox has forced Microsoft to incorporate many much-needed security, convenience and customization features into the latest version of the world's most used Internet browser, Internet Explorer 7. All of this has been spurred on solely by Firefox's existence and growing popularity, so even if you're a dyed-in-the-wool Internet Explorer user, you have Firefox to thank for these improvements." - an abstract from Firefox Tweak.

Firefox Tweak has thought many users on how to configure the Firefox to its optimum usage.

Find out more inside:

Equations

Just for laughs!
Looks funny but somehow quite true in some sense, haha...

Human = eat + sleep + work + enjoy
Pigs = eat + sleep

Hence,

Human = Pigs + work + enjoy

Then If,

Human - enjoy = Pigs + work

In other words,
Human that don't know enjoy = pigs that work

=============================================

Now Let's say if
Men = eat + sleep + earn money
Pigs = eat + sleep

Hence,

Men = Pigs + earn money

Then If

Men - earn money = Pigs

In other words,
Men that don't earn money = Pigs

=============================================

Women = eat + sleep + spend
Pigs = eat + sleep

Hence,

Women = Pigs + spend

Then If,

Women - spend = Pigs

In other words,
Women that don't spend = Pigs

=============================================

Summary :

Men earn money not to let women become pigs!
Women spend not to let men become pigs!

Men + Women = 2 Pigs

Moral of the Story

A jobless man applied for the position of "office boy" at Microsoft. The HR manager interviewed him then watched him cleaning the floor as a Test.

"You are employed" he said. "Give me your e-mail Address and I'll send you the application to fill in, as well as the
date when you may start."

The man replied "But I don't have a computer, nor an email."

"I'm sorry", said the HR manager, "If you don't have an email, that means you do not exist. And who doesn't exist, cannot have the job."

The man left with no hope at all. He didn't know what to do, with only $10 in his pocket. He then decided to go to the supermarket and buy a 10 Kg tomato crate. He then sold the tomatoes in a door-to-door round. In less than two hours, he succeeded to double his capital. He repeated the operation three times, and returned home with $60. The man realized
that he can survive by this way, and started to go everyday earlier, and return late. Thus, his money doubled or tripled everyday.

Shortly, he bought a cart, then a truck, and then he had his own fleet of delivery vehicles. 5 years later, the man is one of the biggest food retailers in the US . He started to plan his family's future, and decided to have a life insurance. He called an insurance broker, and chose a protection plan. When the conversation was concluded, the broker asked him his email.

The man replied, "I don't have an email."

The broker answered curiously, "You don't have an email, and yet have succeeded to build an empire. Can you imagine what you could have been if you had an email?!!"

The man thought for a while and replied, "Yes, I'd be an office boy at Microsoft!"

Moral of the story

1. Internet / email is not the solution to your life.
2. If you don't have Internet / email and Work hard, you can be a Millionaire.
3. If you received this Message by email, you are probably already an Office boy/girl, and not any close to being a

millionaire...

Have a great day!!!

Wrong Number

Just for some laughs, haha... It's simple graphics but creative laugh out loud idea! Enjoy!

What A Screwed up Day!!!

Its another day of daily routine job again, but today on 10^th July 2007 is a so-called ‘special’ day...

Working in G*** Company is not as easy as anyone thinks, some people may view working there just like almost do nothing, give commands/orders, sit back and drink coffee to relax kind of job. Nope, absolutely not!

Our Organisation may seem just as delicious as it looks on the outside, just like a Hamburger. But We are just a piece of something in the middle of a Hamburger, let you guess which part of the middle of the Hamburger we are later at the bottom after you go through the situation below and I’m quite sure some of you experiences similar situation.

We as Engineers handle customers (those upstairs) more than we handling system and machines… We had a hard time to deal with them…

Due to upcoming event, everyone from the upstairs seems to be over excited and planned this and that, giving us all the work to do. Its normal to have work to do, of course, we have no complaints as it’s a routine to do all the necessary work.

The upstairs happily scheduled roaster for us to standby during the weekends, we are still ok up to this stage since its part and parcel of our job to standby when necessary, BUT the upstairs sent email to all parties who are involved for the event EXCEPT us!!

The 1^st thing in our mind, are we supposed to standby during the weekends since we did not receive the email order. You may wonder how we know we need to standby at later stage. We are informed and forwarded by our neighbour that we had this standby. If you may think this is still ok, it’s alright, we actually can accept it too since (upstairs) have scheduled us for the work.

BUT the upstairs have all sorts of different requirements and details fly here and there while we are left outside of the loop without knowing what actually was going on. We were then at almost last minute stage, be informed by the upstairs of the requirements they want and they demand us to react according to their decisions without taking due diligent on the end user side for their usage concerns. We as ENGINEERS have stated out the end user concerns and the impact the users going to face when the upstairs executed their decisions. BUT the upstairs still will not give a damn concern on the end users and our Professional advise (as we know the system inside out) and still want to execute their actions.

Sometimes I wonder, why they hire professionals such as us, the ENGINEERS, to manage the system as the upstairs, so-called CONSULTANTS, decide on things they know less than us such as limitations on the system, didn’t trust our professional advices and still go on ahead to proceed executing the things they want!

They want to see the things they want cannot work by their own eyes rather than trusting our Professional advices and make every single party involving in the event, a very Hard time and inconvenience until they are happy to see the things don’t work…

And usually every year before the actual event, we’ll be requested to go to site for testing to ensure all systems functions properly and ready to operate when the actual event arrives. In this way, we can save lots of troubles and problems which may arise and be prepared if there’s any screwed ups.

But this year, we were not informed to do any testing on site… See Below…

We as Engineers, forgot to say, we also are CONTRACTORS have not much say to overwrite their decisions, so we execute their decisions. What’s more, their decisions was so last minute till we had to inform the end users of the impact even when its around 2am in the dawn!! What the hell!!!!

What do we get after we executed the upstairs decisions? Shits!! PROBLEMS and COMPLAINTS from end users everywhere!! Phones ringing throughout the day!!

So what happen in the end?? Upstairs still deciding if want to revert everything back to normal places so that the whole thing can be done smoothly.

What a screwed ups and a bunch of low EQ and IQ idiots (upstairs)!!

Do they know how to communicate (EQ) well with people?? Someone or somebody got to teach them some manners and attitudes and not using their high posts to abuse their powers to overwrite things they like and want… Every game has its rules and regulations, please play them right and in order, not a MESS.

CUSTOMERS COME FIRST BUT CUSTOMERS NOT ALWAYS RIGHT!

THEY ARE RIGHT ONLY WHEN THEY ARE REASONABLE ENOUGH!!

So which part of the middle of the Hamburger are we??

Are we the meat?? Nope, we are not as delicious as the meat because WE (the persons) are not the main role of the Organisation although OUR SYSTEM is.

Are we the cheese?? Nope, we are not as delicious as cheese too because we are not as worthy as the upstairs think we are. To them, we are just high paid Bangladesh doing ‘easy jobs’ while they do not know the whole lot of things not a normal person can handle.

Then what are we??

We are the VEGETABLES!! Almost less tasty than meat and cheese!! Maybe no taste at all!! But why we are vegetables??

Because we take all the shits the upstairs want to do and do it for them. We also take all the shits from the end users for the complaints they experience. What do Vegetables good at??

YUP, That’s right!! Vegetables produce fibers to process ALL THE SHITS!! Else if the vegetable not functioning properly, you know what happens… Only Inputs and no Outputs…

What an Idiotic day, thanks to all those Upstairs!!

Virus!!! Stay Out of my PC!!!

Long time no install of anti-virus program and when installed and start scanning for viruses, there it scanned out 300+ Threats!!!!!

WOW!!!!!!! What a shock! And after healing the threats, almost all of my programs were unable to execute! Double Shock!

Wow! Didn't realise the threat was so powerful which cause all my exe file to be unexecutable!!!

This must be some sort of worm which will eat up all the .exe files then corrupts them...

I've no choice but to reformat my system drive to ensure there's no further threats happening again!!

What an experience of a lifetime to find so many threats in PC. Serves me right for not scanning it earlier and install the anti-virus software to heal all threats!


Whew!!!!

Thanks to this guide:
http://web.mit.edu/ist/products/winxp/advanced/reinstall-format.html

I'm able to format just the right partition without backing up all my files on my other partitioned drive else I'll be having headache backing up all files as there are just too many files to back up!!

I've finally get my PC running again and of course I've restored all the necessary tools to play videos, audios, flash etc etc...