Internet Scam is so outdated...

Internet scams are so outdated and so yesterday, unfortunately many foolish people still believe in fast money.

"There's no such thing as fast money FOOL!!!"

Recently, the newest Internet email scam involves the old assumptive close selling technique that tries to fool readers into taking action.

There is a new scam sweeping the Internet reminiscent of the phish scam whereby unscroupulous people try to trick email recipients into taking action usually by spending money but in some cases just to join a home business group or pyramid scheme where the solicitor hopes to make money off them later.

The newest scam involves leading people to believe that they are or have been engaged in an activity and that they need to revisit their account which of course they never opened in the first place.

Like most scams the letter seems authentic until the reader analyzes its contents at which time the scam becomes blatantly obvious according to Scott Alliy President of the Online Business Ethics Association.

Mr. Alliy who was alerted by his wife who received a suspicious email provides the following description of the type of email that users should be aware of by revealing the nature of two such email he received recently.

In each case the attempt was to fraud the recipient into thinking that they are receiving a member account activity update from an organization they are led to believe that they had at one point became a member of.

The title of the email was Account activity status. Upon opening the email Mr. Alliy noticed two things. First that the email seemed authentic complete with an activity summary which of course showed zero activity and zero payments and urging Mr. Alliy to contact his sponsor at the name and contact info provided in the email.

The tipoff to the scam was that Mr. Alliys name and p.o. box number were correct but the state and zip code was nowhere near correct. Obviously Mr. Alliy points out it would be unlikely for me to register for any program and give a false state and zipcode during the registration process.

The plan is that the unsuspecting victim will contact the email sender who of course will proceed to try to sell the confused email recipient on the merits of their program or whatever scam they may be promoting.

This latest email scam like the types mentioned in this story are clearly fraudulent and are a blatant misuse of the Internet and email systems provided by ISP's around the world and those that teach others to engage in such activities as well as the perpetrators themselves should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Mr. Alliy believes that this blatant fraud and misuse will continue to give the Internet a black eye and negatively affect commerce and trade unless Congress and lawmakers get aggressive and stop these types of devious activities.

Many of the scam artists who perpetrate such acts excel at the art of mental masturbation. Some may consider themselves marketing experts and may actually consider fraudulent and misleading emails a marketing strategy. They take great pride in getting over on others by using various psychological ploys and preying on peoples emotions. Some may even share their marketing strategies and exploits however questionable they may be during marketing conferences thus spawning a colony of gerbels who take the new found perhaps fradulent certainly questionable marketing techniques which they probably paid dearly to learn and proceed to pollute the Internet and email system with yet more uninvited spam.

Mr. Alliy cautions email recipients to avoid opening emails from unknown people and to beware of letters with emotional come ons like the ones that attemtp to play on the very strong emotion of fear of loss with such claims as act now or your account will be closed and others will get the money that you have earned.

Mr. Alliy encourages recipients of such emails to notify the Online Business Ethics Association by visiting the website at http://www.obea.biz and sending an email containing the date title and contents of any such scam email that they receive from companies or individuals with fraudulent intent similar to that described in this story.

Millionaire Entrepreneur Sosilawati Lawiya Murdered!

Holy crap, and I thought it only happens in CSI. These men are not just plain scam cases. They are really ruthless when it comes to the opportunity to make more money.

This is the face of the brutal sadistic heartless fiend who has taken the lives of so many innocents all because of his greed and willingness to rob others of their hard earned wealth just to live a life of luxury!

'Dato' PATHMANABHAN A/L NALLIANNEN  - The murderous disbarred lawyer who is said to be a DAP member for life and said to have ties with Hindraf.

This man was said to be responsible for the deaths of quite a number of people ranging from a South Indian millionaire who fell prey to this demon and from whom this man set up a clinic for his sister, bought several farms and lands which he used as bait to snare his other victims including the Novelle Visage millionaire owner Dato Sosilawati Lawiya and consequently her driver, lawyer and bank officer.

This is the face of his lawyer brother SURENDREN A/L NALLIANNEN - who admitted to have burned the remains of Sosilawati to ashes.

ON ANOTHER NOTE:
It seems that these 2 bastards are related to one of the scam companies I've written earlier about Pon 72 and Oliver Tan!
http://i-am-a-copycat.blogspot.com/2010/09/oliver-tan-is-conman.html

Sorry for being so excited, but I never really thought I could find 2 articles that I've written related together in such a manner.

To put in short, the murderer Pathmanathan is one of the directors of Pon72 in Malaysia! I don't really know how real is that, but if it's true, I wonder how Pon72 or the so called Oliver Tan's gonna defend their company for this. The company's already scam-suspicious enough.. let alone one of the directors is a murderer & have a series of black histories (mentally not physically).

Thanks to Mohan for sharing! The image below seems to indicate that Pathmanathan is one of the directors of Pon72.

Sources from http://denaihati.com/suspek-pembunuh-sosilawati-juga-pangarah-syarikat-penipu-pon-72-sdn-bhd

**I can't read malay, but I'll paste it anyway..**

Assalamualaikum dan salam 1Dunia, aku nak kongsikan satu komen dalam entri Peristiwa Pembunuhan Sosilawati dan Ikthibarnya yang mungkin memberi maklumat kepada mereka yang tertipu dalam syarikat pelaburan PON 72 Sdn Bhd. Jujur aku pun tak pernah dengar nama Syarikat ini tetapi mengikut maklumat yang di beri ramai yang telah tertipu ribuan ringgit. Mengikut maklumat ini suspek pembunuh sosilawati, Pathmanabhan adalah pengarah Syarikat PON 72 yang merupakan sebuah syarikat yang menipu duit ramai orang.


@Khairul : Salah seorang dari peguam yang bergelar Datuk adalah merupakan salah seorang dari Pengarah Syarikat yang telah berjaya menipu orang ramai iaitu Syarikat Pon72..Salah satu syarikat yang menipu duit ramai orang. Syarikat Pon 72 ini juga meniru hakcipta sebuah syarikat lain iaitu Visiber Sdn Bhd. Perkara ini telah terbukti. Isteri saya yang juga salah seorang dari mangsa bagi syarikat Pon 72 di mana hampir rm10k wang isteri saya lesap apabila salah seorang agent POn 72 melarikan diri secara tiba2. Bukti?Ini bukti yang menyatakan PATHMANABHAN and PON 72 ada bersangkut paut.

Oliver Tan is a conman?

Ok, after doing some bits of research over the internet (damn I love google), I found out that this Oliver Tan guy is related to this company called Pon 72. http://pon72.com.my/

He's also related to this company in Singapore called The Numbers Academy http://www.numbersacademy.com/

Apparently he is known as a conman ripping off lots of Singaporean's money by conducting seminars and workshops about the talk in numbers. And after talking to some local Malaysians and Singaporeans, it seems that he has been ripping off from Visiber http://www.visiber.com

Visiber seems to be a operating pretty long. Try googling it and you'll be able to see quite a lot of past records on success stories. Honestly, as an american, I'm pretty impressed to see so many stuffs that they've been doing. Seems that there's also a Visiber group of companies where they "mothered" a handful of other companies too. I also tried googling the founder - patrick tan. Well, at least his appearance seems to look less suspicious than Oliver.

So back to this Oliver Tan.. ok. I've tried to google about him. Aside from the stuffs that mention about him being a scammy old man, all the other articles only talk how good he is, how fantastic his talks are, and that he's the founder of whatever stuffs he's teaching. And...that's it.

I've also compared the products between visiber and pon72. Although I've never really seen or held one before, I guess both designs are almost the same. But of cos, fake LV sellers will tell others that their LV bags are real. So, buyers please check properly!

Silvia did mention to me that the gold and diamond used by Pon72 are of the lowest quality rank, otherwise probably the diamonds are just crystal.

So, the question is...
DO CONSUMERS EVEN BOTHER FINDING OUT THE TRUE QUALITY OF THE PRODUCTS BEING BOUGHT??

Nuff said...most consumers wouldn't care as long as the price is cheap.

Identifying a fake Tag Heuer Watch!

I am a big fan of Tag Heuer watches and I have a large series of collections. What tickles me is the copycats who knock on your door trying to sell you one for probably a hundred bucks.

You can use a few approaches to identify a replica or fake Tag Heuer, I list some methods below for your references. If you want to buy a genuine Tag Heuer, you must ensure that the product you are getting is authenticate and not an elaborated copy.
Fuzzy Printed Dial: Here's where a jeweler's loupe can be very very useful. Look closely via a jeweler's loupe at the dial and date wheel (if present) through the loupe. The printing of genuine Tag Heuer wathes should be sharp and defined, not fuzzy around the edges or bleeding between letters. A genuine dial with sloppy printing would be rejected at the factory during inspection. The odds are that, unless the watch has been redialed, if it has irregular print quality it's a counterfeit.


Dirty Dial: There should be no dust on the surface of the dial, and absolutely no fingerprints. Contaminants such as hairs have been known to be found under counterfeit crystals on replica Tag Heuer watches. There's no quality control in the replica factories; each replica Tag Heuer watch can exhibit a variety of subtle diferences, including such things as contaminants and print quality.


Luminosity: Most Tag Heuer watches use a substance called LumiNova to provide the glow to the dial and hands that allows you to read the time in darkness. Replica Tag Heuer watches normally have a poor quality luminous material applied compared to a genuine watch. The replica won't glow as brightly or as long when charged and viewed in a low light situation. It's also common that replica Tag Heuer watches will have missing luminous materials and not glow at all. Use a flashlight to "charge" a watch and observe the brightness of the dial and hands in the dark.


Glue on Crown: Cheap replica Tag Heuer watches might have the logo actually glued to the end of the crown. These watches have so many other flaws that this won't be your first indication of problems. Make sure the crown shows no sign of glue or uneven edges. Also, the watch should wind smooth and free, without the feel of the movement moving in the case.
TIPS: On an authentic "Link or SEL" style bracelet, each link is composed of two separate pieces, a right half and a left half. On fake Tags, a crease is typically used to simulate the separation of the link halves. Also, you should not see any pins holding the bracelet to the case or a link to a link except at the clasp for size adjustment.

Con Artist - Oliver Tan?

Don't you felt like beating the crap outta these horrible people?

I just got back from a vacation in Malaysia for 2 weeks to visit Silvia. It's been ages since I've seen her and she was reluctant to come to New York to look for me!

Anyway, she was telling me about some con artists since we were on the topic of my blog. According to her, her country's probably one of the best place for con artists to reside. She did mention about this man by the name of Oliver Tan who was infringing on a company called Visiber.

I've tried googling for Visiber & found out that it's a company that's doing jewelry & number stuffs. Not that I'm interested in it anyway as my point-of-interest is only focused on the numbers in my bank account. Anyway, Silvia told me that the so-called Dr Oliver Tan claimed to be the founder of whatever Visiber is doing. Try google for Oliver Tan & you'll be able to read some interesting scam issues about him.

Apparently this man went around telling how horrible Visiber is and how expensive their products are. Again, not that I care much though. Perhaps anyone can enlighten me about this dude please?

Anyway, time to sleep. Flying off to Chicago tomorrow for a conference.

Pirated DVDs vs the Real Things (Sad but true)

You walk into a shop to pick up your favorite original DVD for a ridiculous price or so to speak. Go home, pop it into your DVD player and you’ll have to wait about 10 – 20 mins before all the ads, warnings and promos are done.

Pirated DVDs are straightforward. No promos, no warnings, no ads. What you want is what you get.

Which do you prefer?

Hmmmm...

What is a shemale

Ok, I'm sorry I had to post this. As you know this page is all about fake stuffs, copycats, infringements and other pirated stuffs.

And I've always wanted to post something about shemales. Please don't give me that look. I'm pretty sure all of us are well aware that there are fake women around. Ok, I'm not talking mentally...that's another interesting topic actually but..yea....


Shemale (also she-male) is a term used in sex work to describe trans women with male genitalia and augmented female breasts from breast augmentation and/or use of hormones. According to Professors Laura Castañeda and Shannon Campbell at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School of Journalism, "Using the term she-male for a transsexual woman would be considered highly offensive, for it implies that she is working 'in the [sex] trade.'"

The term she-male has been used since the mid-19th century, when it was a humorous colloquialism for female, especially an aggressive woman. It was also briefly used as an exclamation during The Great Depression era United States, before eventually settling into its current definition.


Some biologists have used she-male to refer to male non-human animals displaying female traits or behaviors, such as female pheromones being given off by male reptiles. Biologist Joan Roughgarden has criticized the use of the term in the reptile literature, "which she says is degrading and has been borrowed from the porn industry." She writes that gynomorphic male and andromorphic female are preferred, adding, "I hope future work on these animals is carried out with more professionalism."

The term is also used by some psychologists to refer specifically to male-to-female transsexuals who have transitioned to female at least cosmetically, such as with breast augmentation, but have not undergone genital surgery.

You've been warned!

Fake Eggs? What the fuck?

During a recent raid on a wholesale centre in Guangzhou city, the capital of China 's Guangdong province, a large quantity of fake eggs was seized.


Their wholesale price is 0.15 yuan (S$0.03) each - half the price of a real egg.

Consumers have a hard time telling a genuine egg from a fake one. This is good news for unscrupulous entrepreneurs, who are even conducting three-day courses in the production of artificial eggs for less than S$150. A reporter with Hong Kong-based Chinese magazine East Week enrolled in one such course.


To create egg white, the instructor - a woman in her 20s - used assorted ingredients such as gelatin, an unknown powder, benzoic acid, coagulating material and even alum, which is normally used for industrial processes.


For egg yolk, some lemon-yellow colouring powder is mixed to a liquid and the concoction stirred. The liquid is then poured into a round-shaped plastic mould and mixed with so-called 'magic water', which contains calcium chloride.


This gives the 'yolk' a thin outer membrane, firming it up. The egg is then shaped with a mould. The shell is not forgotten. Paraffin wax and an unidentified white liquid are poured onto the fake egg, which is then left to dry.


The artificial egg can be fried sunny-side up or steamed. Although bubbles appear on the white of the egg, those who have tasted it say the fake stuff tastes very much like the real thing.


This is ridiculous.

To make the egg white, various ingredients, including a powder and alum, are mixed together.

The 'yolk' is shaped in the round mould. 'Magic water' containing calcium chloride is used.

Hardy shells are formed by pouring paraffin wax and a liquid onto the egg, which are then left to dry.

My friend from Malaysia, Edwin shared with me some rather funny videos about Astro's TV Commercials. I can't help laughing at how creative & amusing the short videos were. Yes, pirated dvd-mongers, you can be so funny too.

Malaysians know him as the fast-talking pirated DVD seller in the latest Astro advertisement. In person, Brandon Yuen Soon Seng is far from being the Ah Beng he portrays on screen.   

WHEN you bump into Brandon Yuen Soon Seng, the words tai chor lor! (Cantonese for 'watched already!') will immediately flash in your mind.  Yuen plays the magnificent Shiny Disc Hero, the persistent but adorable character in Astro抯 latest advertisement.  

In real life, however, be prepared to hear the 22-year-old interior design consultant speak in fluent English.  I wouldn't be surprised if people thought I was the average Ah Beng picked from the street with broken English, he said in an interview on Thursday.  

But I am pretty much the persistent and funny personality that I portray in the advertisement. It was just so much fun for me to shoot the ad because it was my first time doing it and I had never even expected to get the part to begin with, said Yuen from Setapak.  

In the clip, he plays a pirated DVD seller trying to get people to buy the latest TVB series.  Despite pulling his trademark wishing Chinese fan action to reveal an array of pirated DVDs for sale in the advertisement, his attempts are met with a resonating tai chor lor! from customers and subsequently, from the whole crowd in the vicinity as he cringes from their insults.   

The customers hurl brickbats at him, telling him that Astro's new package Astro on Demand  was now showing the latest TVB series the same time they are aired in Hong Kong, thus making his DVDs of the same dramas obsolete.  The so-called hero then walks away dejected.  

Yuen stood out during the audition among the more than 30 other hopefuls in his group for his natural look, according to what he learnt from the talent company that hired him.

Fake Louis Vuitton Sucks!

When I arrived in the office this morning, my colleague proudly showed me a Louis Vuitton bag and told me that he got it from Chinatown for a 100 bucks. And when I looked closer obviously it's not the real deal. If Louis Vuitton starts selling bags for the price of a 100 bucks, I'll probably be the first to order a thousand of them. This post is written just for you Gilbert.

Fake fashion is a $450 billion dollar business. The bigger the brand name, the bigger the payoff for counterfeiters such as fake Louis Vuitton bags. Its signature series of canvas monogram bags is a prime target for knock-off artists and manufacturers. Many of these counterfeit Louis Vuitton bags are so convincing, they easily fool the average consumer. If you are in the market for the real deal, here's how to make sure you're not getting gypped.

Step 1: The Price Is Wrong
Louis Vuitton monogram canvas bags run from $375 and up, with the majority of the bags selling for over $1000. If you're buying a brand new Louis Vuitton bag for less than $300, you're not getting a deal, you're getting a fake.

Step 2: What's In A Name?
If there is an "LV" anywhere on the bag that is crooked or on a stitch or seam, it is not the real thing. The "LV" on a real Louis Vuitton purse will be carefully placed on the bag so that it's not cut off by a seam or snap. Besides the famous initials being monogrammed onto the bag itself, the zipper pull and purse snaps will all be branded as well. The zipper pull should also be brass hardware and heavy to the touch. Many imitators pay attention to the details so make sure you're paying even closer attention. If the seams are uneven or the monogram is the slightest bit off, it's a fake. Louis Vuitton bags are all hand crafted and each one is perfectly assembled. Spend some time on the manufacturer's website to study the details that make the bag authentic.

Step 3: Material Matters
The Louis Vuitton monogram bags are made of canvas but the handles and piping are natural cowhide leather. The color of the leather should be a light tan, with the edge dyed red and the stitching in yellow. After a few weeks of handling your bag, the leather handles will oxidize and fade to a darker brown. If your leather handles don't change color, it's a fake.

Step 4: Location
Louis Vuitton doesn't have any authorized street resellers so resist these so called "deals" they are trying to sell you. Also be careful when buying bags online, although you can find authentic Louis Vuitton bags, there are also a plethora of fakes. Pay attention to the seller feedback and ask about buyer protection and the return policy. One website that is authorized to sell Louis Vuitton bags is www.eluxury.com.

Step 5: Trust Your Gut
When it comes down to it, go with your gut. If you feel funny about where or how much you're paying, walk away. For more information about how to tell the authenticity of a Louis Vuitton bag, visit a Louis Vuitton retailer or call the headquarters at 212-758-8877 in the USA.

COPYCATS!!!!!!!

After I've been ripped off countless of times, I've finally decided to be a online writer although it doesn't seem to jive with what I'm working as - an accountant.


I believe I'm not the only one who have been sucked or rather ripped off because of fake goods, the self proclaimed original ones. My parents used to tell me that being an Asian living in the States, we need to be smart and intellectual to survive in the market.


Anyway, heck, that's besides the point and I don't really want to go too deep into my personal life.


We know they are out there. Pirates, yea...not those sort of pirates in the movies who do not shower for ages. Pirates from the modern society who I must admit are pretty good business minded opportunists; but in a horribly unethical way.


And yet, most of us are still supporting them.


You don't?


You've never bought a DVD from the market at the price of 3 bucks before huh?