Summaries
A little while back I did a post called Why The Charles Sturt Council Suck, about the pig headed Charles Sturt council who are obstinately pursuing a course that is contrary to a majority of rate payers who voted them in.
Surprisingly enough, they are not the only council who seem to have an agenda. Enter the Burnside council lead by Mayor Wendy Greiner who’s agenda is to sell the Chelsea Theatre, again against the wishes of the people who put them in.
The fight to sell the Chelsea had been going on for months, a lot longer than the Charles Sturt council’s effort in trying to swap contaminated land so that they can redevelop the St Clair Reserve.
What has people up in arms about the Chelsea is that they see at an icon, one that has to be preserved and not sold of to developers that may tear it down or destroy it’s heritage value. Built in 1925 and refurbished in 1941 in the present art deco style, it was purchased by the then Burnside council in 1968 to save it from demolition. Too bad that the current council members are hell bent on it’s destruction.
What I find distasteful is that the building is actually owned by the people and not the council. The council are virtual landlords working on behalf of the people and should therefore get permission to sell it before going ahead with the sale. I would say by the uproar in the media that it is safe to say the council does not have that permission, and yet they have buried their heads in the sand doing all they can to go ahead with the sale.
One must wonder as to why this is so. Is there a hidden agenda?
According to the council this is not the case. I get the impression that the only reason for selling it is because the cost of maintenance is too high. According to an ABC Stateline report it needs some ‘$46,000 worth of maintenance required to the roof and to the bathrooms.’ After lobbying the government by Grace Portolesi they agreed to come to the party to the tune of $25000, reducing the bill to only $21000. Surely the rent from Wallis, who are currently running the cinema would cover the rest?
Further down the article I find that Wallis are actually paying the Burnside Council $50,000 a year in rent. Shock horror. That alone would cover the cost of the maintenance bill.
The problem is that Wallis is also losing money and have only persisted with Chelsea because they understood they would be able to redevelop it into a multi cinema complex which would once again make it profitable. Rather than disfigure the cinema itself they would extend it next door allowing for more screens.
It seems the council will have none of it though and the arguments continue.
Have you received this email?
Dear Microsoft Customer,
Starting 12/11/2009 the ‘Conficker’ worm began infecting Microsoft customers unusually rapidly. Microsoft has been advised by your Internet provider that your network is infected.
To counteract further spread we advise removing the infection using an antispyware program. We are supplying all effected Windows Users with a free system scan in order to clean any files infected by the virus.
Please install attached file to start the scan. The process takes under a minute and will prevent your files from being compromised. We appreciate your prompt cooperation.
Regards,
Microsoft Windows Agent #2 (Hollis)
Microsoft Windows Computer Safety Division
Yeah, well ignore it because I seriously doubt it’s from Microsoft and if anything it’s more likely to infect your computer than clean it.
Please do not install the file attached to this email.
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I must admit that this email I received yesterday had me a little worried. Now don’t get me wrong, I get a lot of spam emails from wankers claiming to be from PayPal but they are so obviously spam that I don’t worry about them. They’re not even good enough to make them a worthwhile post on this blog. B
The following email though was different.
Hello blogster@blogsire.com,
On Oct. 12, 2009, Advantus Media, Inc. sent you a payment for $52.15 USD.
The funds have been returned to Advantus Media, Inc.’s account.
This payment was returned for the following reason(s):
You did not sign up for a PayPal account or did not complete the registration process.
Please contact Advantus Media, Inc. (paypal@advantusmedia.com) to arrange an alternate payment method.
If you have any further questions, please log in to your PayPal account and go to the History subtab. Locate this transaction and click the word “Cancelled” in the Details column.
Sincerely,
PayPal
What this email did was create doubt, and once you have that flicker of doubt you can make mistakes, like clicking on a link or something silly. That is of course their intention.
This particular email actually referred to Advantus Media, Inc, and affiliate that I often promote. The first thing I did was log into my PayPal account and check the history. There was no record of that amount. Someone else may have panicked thinking that it was deleted and not showing up, and they may actually click on the link in the email.
Not me. I Wrote to PayPal direct and forwarded them a copy of the email and then waited patiently for their reply. This arrived in less than 24 hours.
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Dear Peter P.,
Thank you for contacting PayPal.
We appreciate you bringing this suspicious email to our attention. We can confirm that the email you received was not sent to you by PayPal. The website linked to this email is not a registered URL authorised or used by PayPal. We are currently investigating this incident fully. Please do not enter any personal or financial information into this website.
If you have surrendered any personal or financial information to this fraudulent website, you should immediately log in to your PayPal account and change your password and secret question and answer information. Any compromised financial information should be reported to the appropriate parties.
If you notice any unauthorised activity associated with your PayPal transaction history, please immediately report this to PayPal by following the instructions below:
1. Log in to your account at https://www.paypal.com/au by entering your email address and password into the Member Log In box
2. Click on the Security Centre at the bottom of the page
3. Click on the ‘Unauthorised Transaction’ link under the Report a Problem column
4. Please follow the instructions in order to access the appropriate form
If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact us again.
Yours sincerely,
PayPal Account Review Department
PayPal Australia Pty Limited.
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PayPal and its representatives will NEVER ask you to reveal your password. There are NO EXCEPTIONS to this policy. If anyone claiming to work for PayPal asks for your password under any circumstances, by email or by phone, please refuse and immediately contact us via webform at
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I’ve posted the full email so that others can be made aware of the correct procedures to follow when they come up against this sort of situation.
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Normally I don’t worry too much about other council areas because they don’t affect me. This was true of the Charles Sturt Council who have been in the news lately over their plan to redevelop the St Clair Reserve which is located in Woodville. Apparently they only did minimal consultation with the residents and then decided to go their merry way, even after many months of protestation from their constituents.
The council feel there isn’t an issue because they are going to swap the pristine park-lands for land which was once occupied by the former Actil site. Land which residents claim that its contamination makes it highly inappropriate for recreational use.
What they forget is that they are supposed to work for the people who vote them in, and not against them. I reckon that the next council election will see a whole bunch of new council members.
But that isn’t what prompted this post. About a month ago I got an infringement notice for overstaying my welcome whilst shopping at West Lakes. Not a problem, I did the crime and so I have to pay my dues. It wasn’t until I tried to pay the fine, albeit 4 days late, that I found they had added a late payment fee. OK, I thought to myself, a $21 fine could possibly incur a late payment fee of at least $10, not the $30 they charged me. Man, that is a whole pile of bullshit.
Imagine having to pay more than the original fine itself. I wish I could charge my customers a $30 late fee, I’d be bloody rich by now. Well, let that be a lesson to me, don’t frequent any of the stores in the Charles Sturt Council area. While I feel sorry for the resident shop keepers, perhaps they should consider giving those wankers the heave ho at the next council elections.
One of the jobs of the Australian Government is to protect theAustralian people, and that includes restricting the importing of goods that may harm the populace. Knowing this one must wonder why our government are even considering the easing of meat restrictions that will allow companies to import meat from countries with mad cow disease.
This in itself isn’t all that bad, except that coupled with our current labeling laws, you could be eating a meat pie containing 100% imported meat and it will can be labeled as an Australian Meat Pie! This is bullshit! I want to know what I am eating, especially if there is a chance that it contains meat from a country that has the mad cow disease.
This is because under current labeling laws as long as some of the pies, pastry and gravy is made locally, products can carry the green and gold “Australian Made” logo. I’m sorry but that just isn’t good enough. As Australians we have the right to know what we are purchasing. This is essential if we want to support our local producers and so we can buy Aussie products over cheap imports.
Luckily there are some honest politicians who see the dilemma and are trying to do something about it. These federal politicians include independent Nick Xenophon, Nationals’ Barnaby Joyce, and Greens’ Bob Brown. Of the three I would have to say that Nick Xenophon is SA’s night in shining armor. He is our voice in Canberra and is willing to shout them all down if he believes it’s in our interest.
The problem is whether or not the current Labor Government has the balls to stand up to those who want all this shit to happen. I hope that they do, but I seriously doubt it. I hope they prove me wrong.
I’m sure that many of you would have received this email, just as sure that most of you would have recognized it for what it truly is, a pile of BS. Honestly, what professional would use a Yahoo account as a return email address?
Anyway, if you are even considering falling for this crap, don’t! Take my advice and don’t even respond to it because if you do, all you will be doing is confirming that they found a legitimate email which will open the floodgates to more of this crap.
Microsoft Department of Promotion
Microsoft Italy s.p.a.
Dpt 2444 .
via del casale vecchio 2 Roma,
Italy.
Attention: Lucky Winner,
A happy new day to you, as we congratulate you, being one of the lucky winners of the result of the Annual Microsoft Email Award held on the 27th of October 2009 in Italy . Your email address emerged as one of the 10 lucky winners selected electronically by our Electronic lotto Wheel. The total sum of ?1.500,000 (One Million five hundred thousand euro) has been accredited to your email address file number.
Winners were selected randomly from our list of millions of email addresses around Europe, Asia, some parts of South America to promote computer literacy worldwide as well as to advertise our software and computer products. This promotion was sponsored by a conglomerate of software and computer promotion companies like Intel Group, Toshiba, Dell Computers Apple, and other International software and computers manufacturing Companies.
Your email address number in our file was chosen in the European lottery Coupon network whereby your number came up as one of the lucky winners of our prize money, hence, your price money will be remitted to your choice account, in your country through CITIBANK European Branch.
Your winning details are as follows:
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Email File No:QA6612
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Amount Won: 1.500,000 (One Million Five Hundred Thousand Euro)
Contact CITIBANK Italia immediately for verification, processing and transferring of your price money to you in your country. Remember to forward them your winning details for confirmation.
Full Name :
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Age:
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Contact Citibank with the below contact info:
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Contact person
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Gan-Franco Luca
FOR
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TEL: + 39-320-343-7243
Fax + 39-06-9668-1417
Email:bciti76@yahoo.com
On behalf of our CEO Mr. Bill Gates, all the 2009 promotion sponsors, we congratulate you on your winning..
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(Publicity Secretary) (On-line Coordinator
Remember, do not fall for this shit.
I just got this email, hot off the Bullshit press. Have a read and see sit back in amazement that their are people out there who would fall for this crap.
ELGARDO NATIONAL LOTTERY FUNDING NL
BURDENSTREET 21B
FROM THE DESK OF THE MANAGING DIRECTORS
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONAL/PRIZE AWARD DEPT
REFF: EWS/37818/09
BATCH: 18/459/JGS.
Attention: CEO
RE: LOTTERY FUNDING-WINNINGS/PRIZE CLAIM NOTIFICATION
We are pleased to inform you of the official announcement 24/09/ of winners of the 2009 ELGARDO NATIONAL LOTTERY International Lottery Program, held on the 21st of SEPTEMBER 2009.
You or your company, attached to ticket number 318-8876-2810, with serial number 420-509 drew the lucky numbers 2-13-17-23-35-37-18, and consequently won the lottery FUNDING PAYOUT in the International category.
You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of 2,000,000:00 Euro (Two million Euro), in Cash.
This is from total prize money of Euro 50,000,000.00 shared among 10 lottery FUNDING winners in this category. All participants were selected through a computer balloting system drawn from over 85,000 companies and individuals that pay TAXES to their country government, from the MIDDLE EAST, ASIA, AFRICA, EUROPE, NORTH AMERICA, SOUTH AMERICA and OCEANIA as part our International promotions program,
which is conducted bi-annually.
The lottery FUNDING programmed was sponsored by a conglomerate of multinational companies in the WORLD as part of their social responsibility to the citizens of the communities where they have operational base.
Due to the mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep this award strictly from public notice until your lottery FUNDING claim has been processed and your money remitted to your account. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts by participants of this program. We hope with a part of your prize money, you will participate in our end of year high stakes of 58 million Euro slot in December 2009.
For the immediate processing and collection of your lottery FUNDING prize money, Please contact today our Claim’s Agent.
PROF.TIM
Payment Co-coordinator
LOTTERY FUNDING LIMITED
UK {London} Handling dept Payment Office
Email: Youknowthisisshit.agent1@yahoo.com
Remember, you must contact our claim’s agent not later than the 28th of November 2009. After this date, all funds will be returned as unclaimed. All correspondences to PROF.TIM FULLERTON, by EMAIL, should have this Notification , sent along with it and also, your full name , Contact Address, Country of residence and your Email address, Tel/Fax number is highly needed in UK office.
Please remember to quote your reference and batch numbers as stated above, in every one of your correspondences with your claim agent.
Furthermore, should there be any change of your address, do inform your claims agent as soon as possible.
Congratulations again from all our staff and thank you for being part of our promotions.
Sincerely,
MRS V.JOHNSON
Promotions Manager
ELGARDO international Lottery Member of {WWW.LUCKYDAY.NL}
N.B any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winners will result to instant disqualification. Contact your claim agent by telephone, fax or email as instructed above.
YOU ARE AUTOMATICALLY DISQUALIFIED IF YOU ARE BELOW 18 YEARS OF AGE
Honestly guys, no-one is going to just give money to you for a lottery you didn’t even enter. You would have way more chances of winning an honest lottery than replying to that email, which will only cause you heartache and grief.
You know, I have a great dislike for most politicians as a lot of them do not see the world as it is. For some reason these politicians or political parties are, well, shall we just say they’re either naive or perhaps just plain stupid.
Take the following scenario for example. I got this in an email, and it’s obviously a joke, but it portrays the point I’m trying to make.
The New South Wales Government and the NSW Greens Party were presenting an alternative to local farmers for controlling the native dingo population.
It seems that after years of the farmers using the tried and true methods of shooting and/or trapping the predators, the tree-huggers offered a more humane solution.
What they proposed was for the animals to be captured alive, where the males would then be castrated and let loose again. Therefore the population would be better controlled.
This was actually proposed to the NSW Farmers and Graziers Association by the combination of State Government and the Greens.
All of the farmers thought about this amazing idea for a couple of minutes.
Finally, one of the old boys in the back of the conference room stood up, tipped his hat back and said, “Son, I don’t think you understand our problem….Those dingos ain’t fuckin’ our sheep – they’re eatin’ them!”
I’ve actually posted this as part of my Friday’s Funnies, because I really thought it was bloody hilarious. I hope you enjoyed it.
THIS IS MY THIRD AND FINAL MAIL TO YOU!!!
On behalf of the Trustees and Executor of the estate of Late Engr.Juriaan Kugger. I once again try to notify you as my earlier letter were returned undelivered. I wish to notify you that late Engr. Juriaan Kugger made you a beneficiary to his WILL. He left the sum of Thirty Million, One Hundred Thousand Dollars (USD$30, 100.000.00) to you in the Codicil and last testament to his WILL. This may sound strange and unbelievable
to you, but it is real and true. Being a widely traveled man, he must have been in contact with you in the past or simply you were nominated to him by one of his numerous friends abroad who wished you good. Engr. Juriaan Kugger until
death was a member of the Helicopter Society and the Institute of Electronic & Electrical Engineers. Please if I reach you as I am hopeful, endeavor to get back to me as soon as possible to enable me conclude my job. You are advice to contact me with my personal email: andreawimawanker@phising.co.uk
Await your prompt response.96
Yours in Service,
BARRISTER ANDREAW FRASER ESQ.
What you have just read is an email I received today. This is so full of shit that it beggars belief that anyone would be stupid enough to fall for it. All I can say is that Barrister Andrew Fraser is a wanker and if your stupid enough to even consider responding to this email, well you’re a bigger wanker than he is.
Anyway, it’s all bullshit, and what I find amazing is that someone out there will actually fall for this piece of phishing crap. This not only makes them a fool, it points to their lack of character, and honestly this is the first time I can honestly say that anyone who falls for this gets what they deserve.
Dear Friend,
I am Ms. Britney Rowley, a co-recording producer for late Michael Jackson the great legend King of Pop who has just passed away on June 25, 2009. While I was working with Mr. Jackson, he deposited some funds for charitable trust organizations with a secured private institution and up till date nobody knows about the existence of these funds.
Due to the recent crisis going on in Jackson’s family concerning his assets. The Jackson family is now searching for late Michael Jackson undiscovered properties and money which might lead to the discovery of these existing funds. My reason for writing you is that I have decided to retire and resettle and now want the money to be moved out of this institution to you, where you will receive it and keep it safe for me until I come over to meet with you there. I need a trustworthy business partner and friend who will advise me on proper investments in your country and how I can live comfortably. I have obtained and secured all back up documents to support whoever I chose as help to this money.
For your assistance and help in receiving and investing this money, you will benefit a reasonable part of the total money. I will give you my full contact details and I would appreciate it very much if you give me yours including your phone number where I can reach you. Please send your reply through my e-mail britneyrowley@superposta.com
Best regards,
Britney Rowley (Ms)
It’s a damn shame that these low life’s can think, and probably do, get away with this. I left the email as it is in case someone can trace it to the instigator of this obvious phishing scam.
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