SuperStock isn’t a site I’d visited before but they appear to be one of the bigger stock photography companies on the web. Right now I’m following a case where a guy used one of their images without permission (or paying, I’d guess). The image has been removed but he also checked online to see if he was doing the right thing. Unsurprisingly he didn’t get much sympathy. (more…)
I had reason the other day to ask Yahoo a question about it’s directory and someone who was acting as an agent for the directory. I used their “other abuse” option on the contact forms to ask if the reseller was legitimate.
After a couple of days I got a reply focussed on spam. I replied hoping that I might trigger a human to actually read what I had posted. Given the delay in sending and receiving then surely there was a human involved? Computers are much quicker than that! (more…)
We are all used to the phishing emails that we get sent from “banks” and “auctions sites” - trying to steal your logins for financial gain. A new phase has started where phishing messages are sent via the private message (PM) facility at a forum.
The motive in this case is pure revenge, but with forums being used for trading, deals, and product promotion the trend is very dangerous - primarily because you believe you “know” the users, or atleast have some sort of respect and trust between you.
Lets walk through the steps. (more…)
I’ve been using a crossword helper for a while, usually when helping my Mother with questions about French Presidents and button collections and Google fails to give me a sensible answer.
The tool I use is at http://casr.adelaide.edu.au/craig/wow.html
They have a little teaser on the page saying What is docapy? (more…)
People who do business online frequently have their earnings held by pseudo-banks such as PayPal and e-gold. A problem then arises when the same people need their money out of these pseudo-banks or transferred between them.
The most common way to do it appears to be to find someone who is happy to trade. So A puts money into B’s PayPal account and B puts money into A’s e-gold account. (more…)
I’m no fan of pornography but I accept that people do get their kicks from it. To each his own…
However abusive pornography and anything involving kids should be a no-brainer. However the stats link adult pornographers with child pornography and that’s sickening.
So this little post is to provide links to RACE4INNOCENCE and Light a Million Candles.
Make a visit and remember that even if you like porn it’s not for kids.
Last year I took a punt on a 4 letter .com domain: nzrh.com and bought it through Yahoo Business. All went well and then as part of a consolidation exercise I moved it, and some other domains to a new registrar.
