After hearing the excellent Black and Gold song by Sam Sparro, I've bean trying to find out exactly what it means. Here's the answer in a tell-all interview on Rove:
And the excellent video's here
Sunday, August 10, 2008
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Eureka Season - 3
It's excellent to see that Eureka S3 has finally started! Good times! :)
Check out the musicallish intro to S3 here:
Check out the musicallish intro to S3 here:
Friday, July 25, 2008
Freedom Escapes - Scam
Just today I was contacted by Freedom Escapes with a terrific deal on holidays. I am always hesistant when I get calls from Indian operators using "fake" european accents, but the offer seemed good. You pay $199 and you get 14 nights at hotels of your choosing, for 1/2 the price. You can mix and match how many nights you would spend at each hotel etc.
Not wanting to pay for such things over the phone (just paranoid about credit card theft) I requested for their website and they directed me here. They insisted that I give them the transaction number after I pay for it online so they could get some kind of commission. (because I wounldn't need them if I was buying online). Feeling sorry for them, I obliged.
The website looked legit and there were many other "packages" for Family and friends. The operated "insisted" that I pay for the $299 package. He offered me better "deals" such as 4 $40 internet vouches and an mp3 player. When I asked him where I could use the vouchers he said "anywhere... such as ebay etc". Yeah right. That should have had my spider sense tingling.
So I Totally ignored him I went for the $199 offer, but when it came time to pay, it took me to the paypal site, but it resulted in an error. (Probably because they are not registered with paypal and have give you a bum link).
So they trick you into believing they are legit because of their Paypal affiliation -which they don't really have.Then they ask you to directly transfer the money into their accounts because of the "paypal problem". I asked him how he would know it was me if I did pay the money. He came up with some flimsy excuse about the call being recorded etc.... which didn't make much sense, since he could have just tallied it against my name. He mentioned that I would be posted the vouchers. The account details supplied were:
Freedom escapes
Westpack
BSB: 032 040
Account: 171820
I never transfer money directly into anyone's account so I just hung up and did a few google searches and came across these posts. [1] [2]
The short version is this: you get vouchers in the mail. They are useless. When you contact the hotels for your 2-4-1 they don't know anything about it!
I feel pretty lucky not to have been duped - but came really close. Keep an eye out if you get a call from freedom escapes!
Not wanting to pay for such things over the phone (just paranoid about credit card theft) I requested for their website and they directed me here. They insisted that I give them the transaction number after I pay for it online so they could get some kind of commission. (because I wounldn't need them if I was buying online). Feeling sorry for them, I obliged.
The website looked legit and there were many other "packages" for Family and friends. The operated "insisted" that I pay for the $299 package. He offered me better "deals" such as 4 $40 internet vouches and an mp3 player. When I asked him where I could use the vouchers he said "anywhere... such as ebay etc". Yeah right. That should have had my spider sense tingling.
So I Totally ignored him I went for the $199 offer, but when it came time to pay, it took me to the paypal site, but it resulted in an error. (Probably because they are not registered with paypal and have give you a bum link).
So they trick you into believing they are legit because of their Paypal affiliation -which they don't really have.Then they ask you to directly transfer the money into their accounts because of the "paypal problem". I asked him how he would know it was me if I did pay the money. He came up with some flimsy excuse about the call being recorded etc.... which didn't make much sense, since he could have just tallied it against my name. He mentioned that I would be posted the vouchers. The account details supplied were:
Freedom escapes
Westpack
BSB: 032 040
Account: 171820
I never transfer money directly into anyone's account so I just hung up and did a few google searches and came across these posts. [1] [2]
The short version is this: you get vouchers in the mail. They are useless. When you contact the hotels for your 2-4-1 they don't know anything about it!
I feel pretty lucky not to have been duped - but came really close. Keep an eye out if you get a call from freedom escapes!
Friday, July 18, 2008
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