Mike21
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You forgot about the Headmistress being absolute authority on heads and plumbing on boats'
That makes 99 one to go /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
That makes 99 one to go /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
Come on guys & girls...fill-in your details!
- Thread starter bluedragon
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Mike21
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Re: Come on guys & girls...fill-in your details!
For those that are paranoid
For those that are paranoid
Ships_Cat
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Yes I agree, fill in your details. I have and I now even have a nice piccie of myself as an avatar.
Haven't given my boat name though, was a waste of time as some dickheads reckoned I didn't have one, so comply to satisfy their fantasies.
Anyway, my slave agrees with those who have concerns about security issues as found there are people around who are inclined to throw bricks through your windows if they decide they don't like you. So, here I am, he has thrown me to the catnappers instead.
John
Haven't given my boat name though, was a waste of time as some dickheads reckoned I didn't have one, so comply to satisfy their fantasies.
Anyway, my slave agrees with those who have concerns about security issues as found there are people around who are inclined to throw bricks through your windows if they decide they don't like you. So, here I am, he has thrown me to the catnappers instead.
John
webcraft
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Is this the magic 100 then?
Let's face it, government, council and a host of irritating beaurocracies all know where I live anyway.
- Nick
Let's face it, government, council and a host of irritating beaurocracies all know where I live anyway.
- Nick
BrendanS
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Yep, nicely over now. This makes 104 I think
Not at all bad for PBO, the tonners are usually on scuttlebutt or mobo
Not at all bad for PBO, the tonners are usually on scuttlebutt or mobo
bluedragon
Active member
Wow...over a 100...do I get an award or something (like kicked off the forum for wasting gigabytes)??
ongolo
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Re: Come on guys & girls...fill-in your details!
Hi Jimi,
If you want to post something again and avouid being treathened, I post it for you.
I have been treathened by the CIA and FBI for an article I published in the Russian Pravda. I told them to F..k off. I do these things under my own name. So if t helps..... I shall do it. see water maker post.
But it is true what Brendans says, I was amazed that people in Finland referred to some experiments I did in Southern Africa.
Ongolo
Hi Jimi,
If you want to post something again and avouid being treathened, I post it for you.
I have been treathened by the CIA and FBI for an article I published in the Russian Pravda. I told them to F..k off. I do these things under my own name. So if t helps..... I shall do it. see water maker post.
But it is true what Brendans says, I was amazed that people in Finland referred to some experiments I did in Southern Africa.
Ongolo
ongolo
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Hi Nick, then it is time to pack up and go cruising.
Ongolo
Ongolo
VicMallows
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Someone playing at spoofing addresses? Can think of two possibilities.........
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We offer employers for the companies worldwide.
Send the contact information or curriculum vitaeon e-mail:
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Shortly you will receive offers about work. No payments.
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Wide choice of vacancies, in what city, staff, cuontry wherever you would be.
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Of course, *might* just be coincidence..... some tool has picked up on the word 'lawyer', and can't write proper English.
Vic
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Do you want to find good, highly paid (a provisional or a constant) work?
Wherever you would be, we can find for you the best offers of work.
We offer employers for the companies worldwide.
Send the contact information or curriculum vitaeon e-mail:
manager@job-softservice.biz
Shortly you will receive offers about work. No payments.
Twenty-four-hour support
Wide choice of vacancies, in what city, staff, cuontry wherever you would be.
shadow: Our managers will help to pick up the best offers of work exactly for you
********************************************************************
Of course, *might* just be coincidence..... some tool has picked up on the word 'lawyer', and can't write proper English.
Vic
l'escargot
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Re: Come on guys & girls...fill-in your details!
and at this time over 1100 views - nice thread.
and at this time over 1100 views - nice thread.
BrendanS
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Not me, I loathe and detest spammers with a vengeance. More likely to be coincidence, as I receive rubbish like that continually on my public email address.
BrendanS
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Re: Come on guys & girls...fill-in your details!
Good fun too. Soupdragon errrrr.. bluedragon now goes into the hall of fame. Somewhere I compiled a list of the longest threads, but can't seem to find it now.
The hall of fame can be seen on this thread, but hasn't been updated recently
http://www.ybw.com/forums/showflat.php/Cat/0/Board/ym/Number/573260/an/0/page/10/view/expanded/
Good fun too. Soupdragon errrrr.. bluedragon now goes into the hall of fame. Somewhere I compiled a list of the longest threads, but can't seem to find it now.
The hall of fame can be seen on this thread, but hasn't been updated recently
http://www.ybw.com/forums/showflat.php/Cat/0/Board/ym/Number/573260/an/0/page/10/view/expanded/
l'escargot
New member
Nor me - that would be going beyond a bit of fun. Looks like regular spam.
BrendanS
Well-known member
See the hall of fame post I've added. You are now up there with the biggest bandwith wasters. Quite an honour, as I know most of them, and they quite genuinely waste more bandwith than most lesser posters put together.
Seriously though, good thread. It's been mentioned many times before, and discussed in some depth, but it must be due to this being off season, it brought out many more responses than before - or maybe because usually the thread kicks off in Scuttlebutt rather than PBO, so more people there have seen it before, and have already considered it. Who knows, but it's fun when we get a few of these tonner threads going.
Seriously though, good thread. It's been mentioned many times before, and discussed in some depth, but it must be due to this being off season, it brought out many more responses than before - or maybe because usually the thread kicks off in Scuttlebutt rather than PBO, so more people there have seen it before, and have already considered it. Who knows, but it's fun when we get a few of these tonner threads going.
jimi
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Re: Come on guys & girls...fill-in your details!
Many thanks Ongolo.. however If I say something of that naure I'd rather do it myself .. just wish circumstances had been different last year in which case I really would have taken them on .. still retained the correspondence .. might publish it in due course as an object lesson on how to really piss off an already aggreived client.
Many thanks Ongolo.. however If I say something of that naure I'd rather do it myself .. just wish circumstances had been different last year in which case I really would have taken them on .. still retained the correspondence .. might publish it in due course as an object lesson on how to really piss off an already aggreived client.
Sea Devil
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Re: Come on guys & girls...fill-in your details!
Andy interesting what you post about security but why would anyone want to steam my identity and if they did what harm would it really do?
My bank has very serious security to access the accounts on line - the questions are impossible to know and the letters/numbers random and and I doubt it is seriously crackable. - in any case I am not rich.
If someone fraudulently set up accounts - ran up debts in my name (and address) I cannot for a moment believe I would be liable.
I am not totally naive - got an EBay mail yesteday leading me to an eBay site that asked for my credit card details!!!!! I have won the lottery 273 times in the last month as well and decided not to help lots of people out of Africa.
There will always be folks trying to roll you but normally you need to be giving them a little positive help. I really do not see that home address, boat names, telephone numbers - date of birth is really going to endanger your health or bank balance - may be I am wrong?
Andy interesting what you post about security but why would anyone want to steam my identity and if they did what harm would it really do?
My bank has very serious security to access the accounts on line - the questions are impossible to know and the letters/numbers random and and I doubt it is seriously crackable. - in any case I am not rich.
If someone fraudulently set up accounts - ran up debts in my name (and address) I cannot for a moment believe I would be liable.
I am not totally naive - got an EBay mail yesteday leading me to an eBay site that asked for my credit card details!!!!! I have won the lottery 273 times in the last month as well and decided not to help lots of people out of Africa.
There will always be folks trying to roll you but normally you need to be giving them a little positive help. I really do not see that home address, boat names, telephone numbers - date of birth is really going to endanger your health or bank balance - may be I am wrong?
BrendanS
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Re: Come on guys & girls...fill-in your details!
Why are the UK Gov going to the bother of running TV adverts warning of the growing problem of identity theft then?
http://www.identity-theft.org.uk/
Why are the UK Gov going to the bother of running TV adverts warning of the growing problem of identity theft then?
http://www.identity-theft.org.uk/
misterg
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Re: Come on guys & girls...fill-in your details!
Re: Identity theft - I don't think people want to steal your or my identity, just any identity. Equally, I don't think that posting some info in your profile here is a particular threat. However circumstances have made me very wary:
1) £2000 withdrawn in a foreign country from my current account as two "over the counter" cash advances on a card that I have *never* used, except in a cash-point. Bank very understanding, but required to set up overdraft facility with associated charges, etc for the duration of their investigations.
2) £1500 withdrawn in UK "over the counter" after theft of wallet - 2 separate accounts, CCTV footage. Took months to get refund, same overdraft problems as before. very much less than certain that banks would pay-up, argument over refunding charges.
3) Banks now telephone when you request your PIN, as so many were being requested using your ID, then "intercepted" before arriving through the post ("Could I just check the first line of your address.....?")
4) Chip & PIN places the burden of proof of identity to you, rather than retailer
5) Knowlege of local "character" who sifts through rubbish bags (I kid you not!) looking for card reciepts, etc. for their own use, and for sale to others. Persists to do so after several convictions & attachments to her benefit. Check how many 'chits' still have the full card number & expiry date on.
6) The amount of spyware I found on my PC, and I would consider myself knowlegable & careful.
While none of this is directly related to how much info you put into your profile here, it has opened my eyes to both the level of fraud that's perpetrated, and the lengths that people are prepared to go to. This in turn makes me think carefully before posting information on the 'net', as I believe the current situation is ripe for the picking by such characters.
It's everyone's own choice at the end of the day - There's a fair amount of info on me available already, I'm just trying not to add to it.
I don't lose any sleep!
Andy /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
Re: Identity theft - I don't think people want to steal your or my identity, just any identity. Equally, I don't think that posting some info in your profile here is a particular threat. However circumstances have made me very wary:
1) £2000 withdrawn in a foreign country from my current account as two "over the counter" cash advances on a card that I have *never* used, except in a cash-point. Bank very understanding, but required to set up overdraft facility with associated charges, etc for the duration of their investigations.
2) £1500 withdrawn in UK "over the counter" after theft of wallet - 2 separate accounts, CCTV footage. Took months to get refund, same overdraft problems as before. very much less than certain that banks would pay-up, argument over refunding charges.
3) Banks now telephone when you request your PIN, as so many were being requested using your ID, then "intercepted" before arriving through the post ("Could I just check the first line of your address.....?")
4) Chip & PIN places the burden of proof of identity to you, rather than retailer
5) Knowlege of local "character" who sifts through rubbish bags (I kid you not!) looking for card reciepts, etc. for their own use, and for sale to others. Persists to do so after several convictions & attachments to her benefit. Check how many 'chits' still have the full card number & expiry date on.
6) The amount of spyware I found on my PC, and I would consider myself knowlegable & careful.
While none of this is directly related to how much info you put into your profile here, it has opened my eyes to both the level of fraud that's perpetrated, and the lengths that people are prepared to go to. This in turn makes me think carefully before posting information on the 'net', as I believe the current situation is ripe for the picking by such characters.
It's everyone's own choice at the end of the day - There's a fair amount of info on me available already, I'm just trying not to add to it.
I don't lose any sleep!
Andy /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
BrendanS
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Re: Come on guys & girls...fill-in your details!
I'm fairly ambivalent about it too, to be honest. The vast majority of people are quite ignorant of the basics though, which is what the light hearted digging of information on this thread has been about. I sleep well, knowing I'm 85% protected, but can spot quite quickly if the odd weak spot is being exploited.
Many people have no protection, and wouldn't know it they were being exploited until far too late. Chip and pin is a good way forward, handing over credit cards to restaurant employees is quite safe in most parts of the world, but was still a huge fraud loss for the card companies.
I'm fairly ambivalent about it too, to be honest. The vast majority of people are quite ignorant of the basics though, which is what the light hearted digging of information on this thread has been about. I sleep well, knowing I'm 85% protected, but can spot quite quickly if the odd weak spot is being exploited.
Many people have no protection, and wouldn't know it they were being exploited until far too late. Chip and pin is a good way forward, handing over credit cards to restaurant employees is quite safe in most parts of the world, but was still a huge fraud loss for the card companies.