Interesting Spam Mail

September 9th, 2009

I got this in my inbox yesterday.

Dear CEO&Principal

We are a domain name registration and dispute organization in Asia, which mainly deal with the global companies’ domain name registration
and internet Intellectual property right protection in Asia.
Currently, we have a pretty important issue needing to confirm with your company.

On September 7, 2009, we received an application formally.

One company named “CUBAC TRADE LTD” wanted to applied for the internet keyword “gamesniped ” and some domain names through our body.

Now we are handling with the registration of these domain names and find that the keyword of these domain names and internet keywordis identical with your company’s.

So we have to confirm with you at two points:

1. If your company consign CUBAC TRADE LTD to register these domain names and internet keyword we will send application form to them and help

them finish the registration at once.

2. If your company have nothing to do with CUBAC TRADE LTD, they maybe have other purposes to register these domain names and internet keyword.

I want to confirm that are you the corporate representative of this company? If you do, I will feedback some problems to you;

If you do not, please send my words to your company’s cororate representative or lawyer. We need your answer of force adeffect.

In order to deal with this issue better, please contact us by telephone or email as soon as possible.

Best  Regards,

Ben  Tsang

Auditing Department_____________

Tel:   00852-81359178
Fax:  00852-81359278

Email:  Ben@eworlddnr.hk       Ben@eworld.hk

Website:  http://www.eworld.hk

Sounded just legit enough that I decided to double check instead of just discarding as spam. Sure enough, its a quasi scam.

Apparently, the company (under many guises and names) esentially tries to get you to register .cn and other domain extensions of your primary domain name through them. The catch is they want somthing like $90 – $200 per domain – as opposed to the $10 or so it would cost you to register it on your own.

I can only imagine how many people end up falling for this, although it`s not as bad as the fake renewal notices I get through my phiscial mail each year (I`ll post one next time I get one).

On September 7, 2009, we received an application formally.
One company named “CUBAC TRADE LTD” wanted to applied for the internet keyword “gamesniped ” and some domain names through our body.
Now we are handling with the registration of these domain names and find that the keyword of these domain names and internet keywordis identical with your company’s.
So we have to confirm with you at two points:
1. If your company consign CUBAC TRADE LTD to register these domain names and internet keyword we will send application form to them and help
them finish the registration at once.
2. If your company have nothing to do with CUBAC TRADE LTD, they maybe have other purposes to register these domain names and internet keyword.
I want to confirm that are you the corporate representative of this company? If you do, I will feedback some problems to you;
If you do not, please send my words to your company’s cororate representative or lawyer. We need your answer of force adeffect.
In order to deal with this issue better, please contact us by telephone or email as soon as possible.
Best  Regards,
Ben  Tsang
Auditing Department
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Tel:   00852-81359178
Fax:  00852-81359278
Email:  Ben@eworlddnr.hk       Ben@eworld.hk
Website:  http://www.eworld.h

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Cutting Down The Clutter

July 18th, 2009

In an effort to reduce the time I spend checking my email, I’ve spent the last several weeks unsubscribing to all sorts of newsletters and lists. I had no idea it would take this long just, as the ammount of things I am/was subscribed to is staggering.

I’m still at it becuase ever couple of days I get a new mail from something and I have no intention of going through my archieve to find things to unsubscribe from.

Should be a significant decrease in my mail once I’m finished.

Also, my extremly neglected site has been updated to Wordpress 2.8.1. Woo.

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Remove “powered by vBulletin” From Your Forum Title

August 28th, 2008

The “powered by vBulletin” in the title of a newly installed vB forum is nothing short of annoying. It hurts your SEO value and it looks ugly.

Fixing it isn’t too complicated however.

On the left hand navigation, expand the Language & Phrases menu, then click on Search in Phrases.

In the Search for Text box enter: x_powered_by_vbulletin

Change Search In to Phrase Text and Phrase Variable Name

Click on the edit button to edit the {1} – Powered by vBulletin phrase. Leave the {1} and you’re set. If you have any translations you may want to do it for them as well, instead of just the standard phrase.

That’s it!

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July Update

July 16th, 2008

As you can see, my vow to make daily updates lasted – for two days.
While school hasn’tbeen taking up even remotely the ammount of time I expected (in fact I am in class at themoment), I have had my hands full with my other sites as well as life in general.

It just occurred to me that I should always find the time to make updates here however. I’ll see about adding some actual good content in a post later this evening and then we’ll go from there.

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Backing Up Your Server

June 5th, 2008

Recently, I read about another blogger who had some major downtime with one of his servers. There was also a story in the news lately about a fire at a major Server Center.

Both of these got me thinking, and I had to ask myself one question.  What kind of situation would I be in if mine went down? What if i lost all of my files?

Short answer is I’d be screwed.

Hack intrusions do happen. Hard drive do fair. Natural distaters can strike the center where your rack is located. None of this happens often, but it can and will happen to someone.

I do make backups, but completely by hand and not often enough. I try to make sure I do it with my major sites weekly, but that will often slip a bit longer.

This really got me thinking though and I’m taking steps to get myself covered.

First off, I installed the Wordpress WP DB Plugin. I run a large majority of my sites off of the Wordpress platform, and this plugin is a great little addition to any installation. Basically, it back up your database. Right now I have it set to do daily backups, and then email them directly to an off server email account.

This is a temporary measure however, as I look for more long term solutions that can handle all of my backup needs.

Problem is, I’m not a techie. Sure, I can SSH into a server if need be and muddle around in PHP Scripts, but my knowledge is only enough to do what I need to do. Setting up a backup solution like DiskSync is well beyond my skills.

After much Googling and Forum reading, I’m looking at a company known as Touch Support. They seem to have a great reputation, and their prices are very reasonable as well.

For $20.00 a month, they’ll back up your server on a daily basis. Backups are available in 10 Gig amounts, with $1.00 per Gig for weekly, or $2.00 for daily.

I currently have two sites that I need to move to my main server, but after that migration is completed, I’ll be definately hiring them.

I’ll let you know how it goes.

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