Tag: scam

Reply from the Splash Prize



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There was another fire in Shuwaik this morning. Is this like the 3rd fire this week? What the hell is going on?



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There was another fire in Shuwaik this morning. Is this like the 3rd fire this week? What the hell is going on?



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There was another fire in Shuwaik this morning. Is this like the 3rd fire this week? What the hell is going on?

I got a reply from the Yahoo Splash Prize post I mentioned earlier.

Here are the two emails that I recieved:

  • Gift Splash Letter
  • Gift Splash Guidelines

    • As you can see they look totally crap, sickness
    I know how Yahoo! designs their stuff and do it on a much higher standard than that. Another thing was the images located in both emails were not all hosted from Yahoo.com they were from random sites and just embeded the image. If this was really from Yahoo! they would make sure everything was hosted on Yahoo! servers.

    So what is the scam? Well from what I can tell they want you to notarize via Verisign and then give “Right of Attorney concession” to them.

    Looks like you sign an empty peice of paper and let them do what ever they want with you identity.

Yahoo Splash Prize?

I was listening to VOA show discussing the digital divide and stating how it is an socio-economic issue between countries that are wealthy and have a decent educational system and poorer countries with no access to educational resources.

I see the digital divide as a personal divide. Someone who needs access to information will make an effort to get it.

Homeless Access to Internet and Email


I was listening to VOA show discussing the digital divide and stating how it is an socio-economic issue between countries that are wealthy and have a decent educational system and poorer countries with no access to educational resources.

I see the digital divide as a personal divide. Someone who needs access to information will make an effort to get it.

Homeless Access to Internet and Email


I was listening to VOA show discussing the digital divide and stating how it is an socio-economic issue between countries that are wealthy and have a decent educational system and poorer countries with no access to educational resources.

I see the digital divide as a personal divide. Someone who needs access to information will make an effort to get it.

Homeless Access to Internet and Email

I was listening to VOA show discussing the digital divide and stating how it is an socio-economic issue between countries that are wealthy and have a decent educational system and poorer countries with no access to educational resources.

I see the digital divide as a personal divide. Someone who needs access to information will make an effort to get it.

Homeless Access to Internet and Email


I was listening to VOA show discussing the digital divide and stating how it is an socio-economic issue between countries that are wealthy and have a decent educational system and poorer countries with no access to educational resources.

I see the digital divide as a personal divide. Someone who needs access to information will make an effort to get it.

Homeless Access to Internet and Email

I was listening to VOA show discussing the digital divide and stating how it is an socio-economic issue between countries that are wealthy and have a decent educational system and poorer countries with no access to educational resources.

I see the digital divide as a personal divide. Someone who needs access to information will make an effort to get it.

Homeless Access to Internet and Email

So today or tomorrow is the summer solstice. I seem to be getting different information Wikipedia puts summer solstice on June 21, sick yet Time and Date has it for June 22 with clear sunset and sunrise times of 4:49 AM 6:51 PM respectively.

So I guess we have two dates for this. Either way both days are going be long hot and sunny beyond belief.
I was listening to VOA show discussing the digital divide and stating how it is an socio-economic issue between countries that are wealthy and have a decent educational system and poorer countries with no access to educational resources.

I see the digital divide as a personal divide. Someone who needs access to information will make an effort to get it.

Homeless Access to Internet and Email


I was listening to VOA show discussing the digital divide and stating how it is an socio-economic issue between countries that are wealthy and have a decent educational system and poorer countries with no access to educational resources.

I see the digital divide as a personal divide. Someone who needs access to information will make an effort to get it.

Homeless Access to Internet and Email

I was listening to VOA show discussing the digital divide and stating how it is an socio-economic issue between countries that are wealthy and have a decent educational system and poorer countries with no access to educational resources.

I see the digital divide as a personal divide. Someone who needs access to information will make an effort to get it.

Homeless Access to Internet and Email

So today or tomorrow is the summer solstice. I seem to be getting different information Wikipedia puts summer solstice on June 21, sick yet Time and Date has it for June 22 with clear sunset and sunrise times of 4:49 AM 6:51 PM respectively.

So I guess we have two dates for this. Either way both days are going be long hot and sunny beyond belief.
I was listening to VOA show discussing the digital divide and stating how it is an socio-economic issue between countries that are wealthy and have a decent educational system and poorer countries with no access to educational resources.

I see the digital divide as a personal divide. Someone who needs access to information will make an effort to get it.

Homeless Access to Internet and Email

So today or tomorrow is the summer solstice. I seem to be getting different information Wikipedia puts summer solstice on June 21, sick yet Time and Date has it for June 22 with clear sunset and sunrise times of 4:49 AM 6:51 PM respectively.

So I guess we have two dates for this. Either way both days are going be long hot and sunny beyond belief.
Some people in my work have recieved an SMS stating:

Your Phone Number : 965XXXXXXX won $9500 in the Yahoo! 2006 Anniversary Gift Splash. Winner contact mailprize9@yahoo.com for FREE claim/delivery. www.yahoo.com

I dont know about you but this just screams scam. I did a search for yahoo anniversary gift splash and found some strange things on Answers Yahoo! One of which is this Where many people in Kuwait have seemed to receive the same SMS.

This is all very strange and odd. I never heard of this ever before, disorder
and strange so many people in Kuwait are getting this prize.

Anyone else getting these SMSes or know if it is a hoax or not?

Haunted by 1985

MOC has contacted us saying that we owe them 2KD from 1985 and that we need to pay. I was shocked to hear they are asking for this, for sale not cause of the small amount but that it is from 1985!. It like someone there finally decided to do work that day and process these old bills. The secretary says this is normal for MOC to bring out old bills from the 90s and it is accepted but this time he was shocked to hear something came from 1985.

I have accepted the fact that the local mail service is in this weird time warp with mail coming to us sometimes 2-3 years after it was sent. Until a couple years ago we were still recieving mail from 1990.

Yet this phone bill is something else…

You know come to think of it. It is quiet a good scam. We have to pay our phonebill to well keep in contact with people and if we dont pay it other stuff for the company can be put on hold. So if we choose to fight it it would be long and annoying battle. Also since it is just 2KD it isn’t that bad. So imagine if emlpoyees at MOC do this randomly to like 10, urologist 000 companies in Kuwait. Charge them around 1-2KD for an old bill and they will pay. They generate an EASY 10,000 20,000 KD. Then they can just remove it from the accounts computers shuffle it around and tada they just put that money in their pockets.