No Free Ericsson Laptops. THIS IS A HOAX. Google it dammit.
There is no person working at Ericsson named “Anna Swelung”. They have confirmed that they will not be giving away free anything. So do me a favour and stop sending me this spam. It’s junk.
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Nic
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Nic
2010 spam emails are coming. I have just received my first one with thanks to SA Rocks. This is what 2010 Spam looks like:
My name is Mr Ray Edward, I got your website in the internet, when i was searching for a good business partner interconnection to 2010 Fifa world cup that will be hold in your country south africa nest year,
Do you know a good profitable business that we can invest? I did it in Germany 2006 and i was favored so much, Get back to me with your kind of investment proposal so that we can proceed now,Yours truely
Mr. Ray Edward.
Well Mr. Ray Edward, I have great ideas. Why would I give them to you? And if you are going to pitch me spam, at least try to get the spelling and grammar half-decent, not even all the way decent, just half.
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Nic
Nedbank client service blows. I have recently acquired a bond through Nedbank. I am VERY happy about this, they gave me the best rate and the best bond amount hands down. But I don’t think that’s enough. I wanted someone to phone me, to say well done, to see that I was OK, happy, alive, not robbing them. Etc etc etc. But nothing.
Then enter SPAM. I have received two calls on two consecutive days from Nedbank client service research people asking me to participate in feedback client something-or-another. I told them my story and declined to participate. I also asked them to remove me from their database. Let’s hope.
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HSBC hit by email spammer?
Nic
I just received this in my Gmail account:
Good day,
My name is Maria Norwood;I work with the Total Quest Services,a consulting Firm in London,
UK. We are conducting a standard process investigation involving a client who shares the same
name with you andalso the circumstances surrounding investments made by this client at HSBC
Bank Plc.The HSBC Private Banking client died intestate and nominated no next of kin to
inherit the title over the investments made with HSBC Bank Plc.The essence of this
communication with you is to request that you provide us information on three issues:1-Are you aware of any relative/relation having the same surname, whose last known contact
address was Madrid, Spain?2-Are you aware of any investment of considerable value made by such a person at the HSBC
Bank Plc.?3-Can you establish beyond reasonable doubt your eligibility to assume status of next of kin
to the deceased?It is pertinent that you inform us ASAP whether or not you are familiar with this personality
that we may put an end to this communication with you and our inquiries surrounding this
personality.You must appreciate that we are constrained from providing you with more detailed
information at this point. PLEASE RESPOND BACK TO MY PRIVATE AND DIRECT EMAIL ADDRESS;
mrs.mariawood@gmail.com as soon as possible to afford us the opportunity to close this
investigation.
Thank you for accommodating our enquiry.Yours sincerely,
Maria Norwood
Total Quest Services
For: HSBC Private Clients.
This is a confidential message from Total Quest ServicesSomething smells fishy.
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Banned from Google and back on in 2 days
Nic
I have had a roller coaster ride experience with Google. Spanning from utter reverence to complete disdain, to fear, concern, joy, revolution and many more experiences that all have left me with an impression of Google here or there.
My most recent experience of Google was a two day festival of emotion and reactions.
Many people wont have a clue what I am referring to here but I recently saw a serious drop in traffic on SA Rocks:
Those red arrows…never good. I freaked out. Emailed people, tried removing things I thought might be problematic. And then Mr Jason Bagley tweeted the answer in geniously casual fashion: “check out Google Webmaster tools – might be able to spot something happening in there.”
Yes, the answer was there. SA Rocks has a problem. I am not going go in to much detail other than to say that thousands of invisible links are injected in to the SA Rocks template occasionally. I didn’t even remember this issue and consider it a problem. But it was. Google had booted me off their indexes. Not. Good.
The drop in traffic is the result of having every page, every search term, every SEO effort that you have put in for over two years vanish off Google. Gone, kaput, over. Again, I freaked out. This is where the angst, anger, frustration and a mass of other emotions began to flow. I hated Google. I hated the fact they could almost literally grind my hard work to halt by simply removing me from their service. It’s a shocker. And they are strict. If you haven’t made use of them yet, I suggest you head over and get on top of Google’s webmaster tools. They will prove to be invaluable should you one day be booted off Google.
I received a message in my Webmaster Dashboard alerting me to the fact that I had been removed from Google. I then Googled SA Rocks, South Africa Rocks, Rocking, SA or anything that I knew would pop SA Rocks on to the top of the ranking somewhere on Google. Nada. Nothing. Niks nie. Kak myself.
But it wasn’t too bad.
I was alerted to the problem by the helpful text-person talking to me on my dashboard. I figured it out, invisible links, google, spam, bam. Went to the origin of the links, manually removed them and then applied to be reevaluated by Google. This is an absolute must if you ever want to be visible on the known web again.
Then I honestly thought that I would be waiting for weeks. But I didn’t I waited for two days and was reinstated to the Google Indexes. Thank goodness. Can’t tell you how glad I am that this is over.
Be sure to check up on your website, Google yourself, your websites and your profiles.