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Archive for April, 2010
Don’t get caught – Fax Scam
Apr 29th
Today, we received a suspicious fax from what appeared to be “The Australian Register of Who’s Who”. This is the second time we received a similar fax and the first time we received this fax we almost completed it and was in the process of faxing it back. Since it looked a bit suspicious, i.e it didn’t have a website address or a telephone number I decided to research more about this company and the person listed in the fax. Below is an image of the fax we received:
fax scam
Within seconds of googling the company and the fax number, there was quite a number of results and other people having reported this and it’s definitely a scam. Apparently, once you fax the form “they” will contact you and try to get you to sign up as a member and obtain your credit card details.
What I learnt from this event is to make sure you spend some time to reasearch and investigate the company you’re providing information to.It seems like it’s common sense but there has been so many of us that has fallen in this trap, so be careful and don’t get caught.
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I found a piece of rock in my Pizza
Apr 18th
You’re probably thinking to yourself whether this is a prank or not but let me tell you that I did find a piece of rock in my pizza – I have pictures to prove this. YES A PIECE OF ROCK! Now, I don’t want to name the actual company but I’m quite disappointed of the outcome of this situation and because of this I decided to blog about it.
Several weeks ago our company ordered several pizzas from a local pizza restaurant chain. At the last few slices of the final pizza, I bit into something really hard. Upon inspection this is what I found:
Rock in my pizza
Rock in my pizza close up shot
Rock in my pizza closer closer shot
Can you see it? It’s a small piece of rock! Yes, how did this piece of rock get into the pizza… that’s the question I wanted answered. My biggest concern was that if a kid was eating this then they might have choked. I was calm and collected and decided to call the pizza store to speak to the store manager. I managed to speak to the store manager and the conversation went something like this:
I said: “I think I found a piece of rock in my pizza”.
Store manager said: “Are you sure it a piece of rock?”
I said: “Yes I know how a piece of rock looks like and I want to find out how it got into the pizza.”
Store manager said: “I don’t believe its a piece of rock but it could be a hard sun dried tomato.”
I said: “I don’t think it’s a sun dried tomato… I know how that looks like and it’s definitely not a sun dried tomato.”
Store manager said: “I’m sorry but we don’t believe its a rock. You can bring this in and we can exchange it or refund it for you.”
I said: “I don’t want an exchange or refund, I just want to know how this piece of rock got into my pizza.”
Store manager said: “It’s not a rock…” and the conversation kept going into a loop.
At this point I felt so offended and frustrated that the store manager kept questioning me about the rock. We decided not to bring back the pizza but to report it to the head office. Someone in the head office did contact us back and was advised that someone would pick up the pizza so that they can investigate this further. Till this day, no one has picked up the pizza and we had to throw it away because it was getting moldy, overall I was quite disappointed with the outcome and hope I don’t experience this again.
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Caught a computer virus
Apr 10th
This week my computer caught a virus… I must have got it when sharing a USB Drive with a friend and the anti-virus software didn’t pick this up. What prompted me to scan my computer was a notification from my ISP saying that access to the Internet was blocked to due email spam.
Upon investigation, running a netstat -ano showed that there were indeed SMTP (port 25) outbound connections to various IP addresses. I also noticed that browsing the Internet was slow and the system would occasionally reboot by itself (if you have these symptoms I would suggest you look into this further). Rebuilding the OS and then installing an anti-virus software fixed the issue but this was very disruptive. I was almost out of action for the whole day and was unable to do any work. I now have a better understanding of why large corporate businesses are so persistent with ensuring they have the latest security patches and anti-virus definitions – a virus outbreak in any business can impact the day to day operations of the business which means loss in profit and productivity.
There are many anti-virus applications on the market but you can try BitDefender – it also has an online scanner.
Have you been affected by a computer virus in your business?
Apologies Advertise Me Enquiries
Apr 10th
We would like to apologise to all of those who sent us an enquiry and never received a response from us. Yesterday we discovered that our online mailer form (enquiry form) was not working and hasn’t been working since January 2010. It was just by accident that we were talking about how we haven’t received an online enquiry for a while and I decided to test the form to make sure it was working… and it wasn’t (my heart sank) and wondered what happened and how many opportunities and enquiries we missed because of this issue.
Apparently back in January when our hosting domain was migrated across to a new server (see post http://www.advertiseme.com.au/blog/index.php/2010/01/10/downtime-on-our-email-hosting/) some of the settings were not migrated across and this has caused the issue.
Upon fixing this issue we immediately received a backlog of enquiries and let me assure you that we will attend to these immediately. We just hope that it’s not too late to contact these people. What we’ve learnt from this little unfortunate experience is to make sure we test everything and I mean EVERYTHING when websites are migrated across to a new server or platform – this includes the MAILER FORM.
So once again on behalf of advertise me, we would like to apologise to those who have sent us an online enquiry and never responded.
Have you experienced a similar situation? Please share that with us in the comments.
ADSL 2+ Residential Unlimited
Apr 1st
We are happy to offer the new TPG ADSL2+ Unlimited monthly quotas for $75 a month. Yes it’s UNLIMITED so you can download as much as you like. Click here to start your registration.
You can also bundle as many Mobile 49 Cap Saver plans as you want with our ADSL 2+ Unlimited 24×7 and pay only $14.99 per month (includes $300 worth of calls, text and data) usually valued at $19.99 per month.For mobile registrations click here.
Don’t hesitate and register now and if you have any questions let us know.
