Nigerian 419 email scams being replaced by Russian dating scams

It appears, at least in Australia, that the good old fashioned $20m Nigerian 419 email scam is dying out.

Yes the latest and greatest scams are letters from these “luscious” hotties from the Ukraine or Russia, dying to get their hands on a new Aussie hubby. Yep we are talking about emails depicting a hottie in her 20’s begging for some geriatric old bastard to “marry” her so she can move to Australia and live happily ever after “with him”.

Sad news folks, 99.999% of these emails are from ugly mugu scammers, attaching a photo of some honey from the backwoods of a russian brothel, and starting line of correspondence. Then the hits come, they are ready to emigrate but need some cash to bribe the authorities, can’t transfer the bank accounts, need cash for the fees and they will transfer their avings to your account, etc etc etc.

Why can’t people remember that: if it sounds too good to be true, then it probably is.

Written by Bloke on October 16th, 2008 with no comments.
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The joys of having your very own dedicated server

The joys of having your very own dedicated server. There aren’t any. Unless you count the faster access speeds, better data transfer in other words, less downtime etc.

No-one mentions the downsides. Like the greatly increased monthly costs, or the hourly fees for a “remote-hands” techies to re-boot it, or just thump it for you. Lets not forget the constant upgrading of server software, almost daily in fact just to stay ahead of the scammers, hackers, and dickheads.

Then there’s the stuffups, like when you forget you are logged in as “root” and you upgrade a users site for them, then they come back screaming because they cannot overwite the html file that is now owned by user “root”. No matter, a quick “chown -R” should fix that.

So you try to offset your costs with a few Google Adsense adverts, and the money really starts to roll in, and you find that in no time at all you are earning nearly $10 bucks a month! Yep, that certainly goes a long way towards paying for that server not.

Written by Bloke on October 16th, 2008 with no comments.
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