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Tuesday, 7 October 2008 1:12 pm

Trust the Midas touch?

Monday, 16 June 2008  

I received this “mainsleaze” spam a few days ago from Midas. Now this is supposed to be a reputable, mainstream company but stupid actions such as this are likely to damage their reputation for quite a while:

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Dell phishing scam

Monday, 9 June 2008  

I received this email, claiming to be from Dell, and offering to give me a free laptop, just for answering a short survey:

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Microsoft’s cashback and Yahoo

Monday, 2 June 2008  

Microsoft recently announced that it’s willing to pay people money for using their crappy search engine, provided the people buy something, and provided the people live in America.

The more I think about it, the more I’m convinced that Microsoft aren’t after Google, they’re actually after Yahoo.

With their failed takeover attempt fresh in everyone’s minds, this might just be Microsoft’s “work with us or we’ll spend as much as we need to bury you” message to Yahoo.


Bruce Servicepack and the Vista Street Band

Monday, 28 April 2008  

A fake band with its own fake groupie in an embarrassing internal video promo which aims to get a corporation to eat its own dog food:

You’ll love the lyrics, I promise. Not to mention the enthusiastic jumps into the air, complete with freeze-frames.


More dodgy deals on Ebay

Monday, 7 April 2008  

Quite a while back I outlined from personal experience one way dodgy sellers continue to scam buyers on Ebay. Well here’s another one, except even the Ebay support people can’t explain how this particular scam works.

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