Warning - Phishing emails - MSN PROMO AWARD - part 3 !!

Another email in my inbox.It is an another lottery variant of the 419 style of scam - uses the fake promise of a lottery win to eventually lure victim and trick them into giving away their bank details, or by requesting payments for 'administration costs'.

This time they use the logos of MSN and Yahoo to look as if it is a real notice !!!

The email content is as follows.........

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P O Box 1010
Liverpool, L70 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM

(Customer Services)
Date: 8th December, 2006
WINNING NOTIFICATION

Ref: 475061723 Batch: 70564702/188

MSN ANNUAL PROMOTIONAL AWARD

Dear Winner,We happily announce to you the draw (#996) of the MSN ANNUAL PROMOTIONAL AWARD, online Sweepstakes International program held 29th November, 2006.Your e-mail address attached to ticket number:47061725 07056490902 with serial number 7741137002 drew the lucky number , Bonus Ball which subsequently won you the Award in the 2nd category i.e match 20 plus bonus.You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £ 500,000.00 ( Five Hundred Thousand Pounds) in cash credited to file ILP/HW 47509/02 .

This is from a total cash prize of £ 10,000,000.00 shared amongst the first five (20) lucky winners in this category i.e Match 20 plus bonus.

All participants for the online version were selected randomly from World Wide Web sites through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000 unions, associations and corporate bodies that are listed online, this promotion takes place weekly.

Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European electronical computer, representative office in UK,in view of this, your £ 500,000.00 (Five Hundred Thousand Pounds) would be released to you by any of our payment offices.

Our European agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact him.

For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential your claims will be processed and your money will be remitted to you in whatever manner you deem fit to claim your prize.

This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program.

Please be warned.To file for your claim, please contact our claims agent with the bellow information:

Overseas Claims Unit
Universal Lottery
FiduciaryDr, Rowland Culverton
Email:claims_award_unit@yahoo.co.uk
Telephone:+447031834901Fax: +447092874237.

When contacting the claims unit for payment, furninsh him with the following details for the issue of your WINNING CERTIFICATE/PAYMENT.

(1)Full Name (2) Nationality (3)Date Of Birth (4) Occupation (5) Home/Moblie Phone (6)International Passport Or Driving Licence (7) Sex (8) Marital Status (9) Batch Number (10) reference numbers.

Our European agent will immediately commence your processing to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact him. You may wish to establish contact via e-mail with your particulars.

Our winners are assured of the utmost standards of confidentiality, and press anonymity until the end of proceedings, and beyond where they so desire. Be further advised to maintain the strictest level of confidentiality until the end of proceedings to circumvent problems associated with fraudulent claims.Goodluck from me, members of staff, and our sponsorers yahoo UK & Ireland, Microsoft window, MSN.

Yours faithfully,

Brian Hunt
Online coordinator for MSN PROMO AWARD
Sweepstakes International Program.
Open 7 days 8am-8pm.

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Warning - Phishing mails in your inbox - part 2!

Today i got another phishing email in my inbox. If you go through the email it may sound that making money is very easy. Dont be carried away by all these. Be aware of getting into trouble...
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Vladimir (illiat.celine@wanadoo.fr) +Add contact
To: min.tay@alumni.nus.edu.sg
Subject: FWD: Grateful job opportunity

My name is Vladimir Koksov. I'm manager of Ukrainian Reasonable Investing.Co.Currently our company is expanding and we have a limited number of job opportunities availablein Indonesia, Singapore, Philippines and some more countries. You can earn up to USD $2000 weekly

Your Duties:
1. Open a CitiBank account (or use the existing CitiBank account);We use CitiBank becouse international transfers to CitiBank is clearinginstantly, so no any other bank is acceptable.
2. Upon receiving a notice from our manager about money transfer with your account, promptly apply to your bank and withdraw the sum.
3. Receive your 5% commission from the transferred sum. (8% after twoweeks trial period)
4. Immediately go to one of express money transfer agencies (Western Union or MoneyGram) and transfer this sum in accordance with the details, specified inour notice. (www.westernunion.com)
5. Log on to the Internet and send us the details of the transfer.

There is no start-up cost or any other fee to begin working with us.So you do not need any capital to start
If you are ready to start please fill in the form below and send itback to our email: ReasInvest58@mail.ru
Full name:
Country of residense:
City:
Cel. phone no:
Additional information about yourself :

Thank you.
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A Refreshing Day at Singapore Botanical Gardens

Yes it was indeed a refreshing day (24th Nov'06) for the entire family. Chitra was free from the daily cooking and house keeping activities, Tejas and Neeraj get a chance to explore the nature after a long time (True indeed... where got chance to appreciate nature's beauty in Singapore?) and for me, a good opportunity to have real fun with the family after a very long time....... (norm in singapore !!) We almost spend the entire day in the gardens. It was a cool and pleasant day with some showers in the late afternoon. We didnt feel the tiredness after walking for the whole day. Though cannot name most of the orchids and plants, managed to still have a good conversation with Tejas and Neeraj. They had good time playing in the morning, a sound nap in the afternoon and a pleasant evening........

Wishing to visit Botanical Gardens very soon....

Warning - Phishing mails in your inbox

Of-late do you receive such phishing emails? I am fed up with such.Thought that i shuld from now onwards share these phising emails in my inbox with the community.....

By the way .... can we put a stop to these ?

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EUROPW LOTTO SWEEPSTAKE (NATIONAL/INTERNATIONALINTERNET EXTRA AWARD PROGRAM),

FROM: THE DESK OF THE PROMOTIONAL LOTTERY COORDINATOR,

INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/ PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT.

KROPAAR STRAAT 34, 1032LA,AMSTERDAM,

THE NETHERLANDS

Ref. Number: BN2005-001-MLI

Batch Number:1505/004NL

ELECTRONIC MAIL AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION / PROCESSING ADVICE: ELP

Dear winner,

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the Lottery WinnersInternational programs held on the 4TH NOVEMBER 2006. Your e-mail address attachedto ticket number 1942896-9032 with serial number H001490 drew lucky numbers11-0-17-31-60- 75-9 which consequently won in the 1st category, you havetherefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of 1,500,000.00 Euros (OneMillion Five Hundred Thousand Euros)Due to mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep your winninginformation confidential until your claims has been processed and your moneyRemitted to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claimingand unwarranted abuse of this program by some participants.You will need to have your identification documents and claims form notarizedby the fiduciary agent (below) before a magistrate or notary public in TheNetherlands.All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn fromover 10,000,000 companies and 30,000,000 individual email addresses and namesfrom all over the world, names from Australia, New Zealand, America, Europe,North America, Middle East, Africa and Asia as part of International PromotionsProgram. This promotional program takes place once a year.This lottery is promoted by the software and internet giant corporations tocompensate some few individuals with website and email addresses, we hope withpart of your winning you will take part in our next year EUR10 millioninternational lottery. Please note that your lucky winning numbers falls withinour European booklet representative office in Europe as indicated inyour play coupon to file in for your claims, please contact the companyprocessing officer.

MR.STUART DIENEN,

Claims processing managerEUROPW LOTTO PLUS

europwstuart3@aim.com

TELl: +31 633 703 990

Fax: +31-847 283 767

Please note in order to avoid unnecessary delays and Complications pleaseremember to quote your reference number and batch numbers in all correspondence.Furthermore, should there be any change of address do Inform our agent as soonas possible. Congratulations once more from our members of staff for being partof our promotional program.

Sincerely yours,

Mrs. MRS. DENSIE DE HOLIDRIJK

Lottery Coordinator

EuroPW Lottery Program.

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Itz a simple advanced fee fraud.
You try to claim your prize and they charge you a "processing fee". You never see the prize nor the fee again.

Avoid.

Hats-off Mr.MP

Two days ago i planned to meet the Memeber of Parliment of my town council. I managed to get the information about the session from one of my friend, living in my block. As adviced by him, i was there quiet early in the evening, yesterday. After few formalities and a session with the grass root supporters, i managed to meet the MP. That was the first time i am meeting such a high profile person, specially from the politics, in my life. But the best part is that, Mr.Yeo Cheow Tong made me feel easy and provided me with a rememberable evening.
In the night, my wife was quiet curious about the formalities and the session. The reason is that we were trying to compare a similar scenario back in my country, INDIA. My friends from India would definitely agree with my following observations. Meeting an MP is an himalayan task ! probably considered that you are lucky if you ever had a meeting with an MP of your own constituency. Also the security level may not allow you to talk with such a high profile man for a long time. But down here in singapore, it is so easy to plan to meet your MP and put up your requests and problems to him. I am not magnifying incidents as well as not interested in criticising others. THERE SEEMS TO BE ALWAYS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR EVERYONE TO LEARN FROM EVERYONE ELSE AND CONDUCT THEMSELVES IN AN EFFICIENT AND PROGRESSIVE MANNER.

HOCKEY CHAMPIONS !

Quiet long time since i blogged !!! I have listed few items to share today. The first on my priority list is obviously the recent Inter Statutory Board Games (ISBG) games held at NYP. We were the HOCKEY CHAMPIONS again. We won last year as well. Another 5 more government organisations participated in this hockey match. The nightmare was that there were not enough players and hence couldnt have a substitute right from the qualifying round. Everyone in our team played in all the matches and was almost exhausted for the final game ! The very sense of winning the event game me the sufficient boost to drag myself until to my home. Need to spend the weekend lying on the bed. Muscle stiffness in my buttox, thigh muscles and those wounds on both my knees! ( unable to balance myself on the wet pitch while drebbling made to fall on the ground )

Sudden Change in myself - A Clean Shave !

" It's not how much you have that makes people look up to you, it's who you are " would say Elvis Presley. I agree.... but you see.... yeah... yes... Errrr....rrrr.... i really wanted to give a change to myself and thatz the reason i have to give away with my mush!!!!! Even though i realize that this is not the way to show the changes, but this is truely not an attempt to make people look up to myself.... !!!

But still when i look up this picture.... seems like it suits me a bit..... Heeeheeee...heeee....eeee

STEALTH FIGHTER - my first origami work

Recently attended an "Origami Workshop" conducted by the interest group at Central Library, Nanyang Polytechnic. The instructor was very brief in explaining few techniques ( it was a very brief session extending not more than 30mins ) and yet he managed to create an interest towards the topic among the participants. Inspired by the display of his works (which included a dinosaur, a frog, rose with petals, fish, etc..), i immediately borrowed this book from the library. The same night i started to try my first origami work, even though i have done a paper camera, a boat, a rocket during my school days !. I was browsing the book for a simpler tutorial. In the end i picked up the STEALTH FIGHTER. Believe me, i managed to finish it in my first try. I have attached the picture above. I further moved on to try A SNAIL. Eventually even after three tries it never looked like it. Hence I called it a day but i am determinant to finish it sooner !!

Neeraj's 2nd B'day

Happy B'day Pappu

Yesterday was another fantastic but a very special day for us. It was Pappu's 2nd Birthday ! Days are moving very fast. Seems like just few days back i was at KK Hospital witnessing my wife's labour. Neeraj today turns 2. He is quite mischevious but sweet naughty little angel. He likes the company of his bother TEJAS. They fight, share and luv each other. Chitra conducted the day very well, more importantly, to the interest of Neeraj. We went to Bukit Panjang Temple in the evening.

Happy 41st B'day Singapore

Ego Beast

Morning one of my student ANITHA called me to discuss about some of her current projects and her difficulties with one of her previous supervisor. She is quite a studious girl and hardworking too. Unfortunately the last semester didnt turn up in her favour. Infact it became one of her worst too.
She was attached to one of the company in jurong island last semester for a period of nearly four months. Her supervisor in the company turned up to a ego beast. He was a chinese. He didnt expect the kind of dedication and steady output from her. He gave her challenging jobs which she did with enthusiasm and managed to finish before deadline. Unable to digest the fact that she is gaining grounds in the company, he started to disturb her constantly. He even went to the extend of writing something wrong about her behaviour and performance to her supervisors back in the school (Which happened to me!). I had written to him many times to extend his support to her in completing her industrial attachment successfully. He didnt listen to me and eventually he gave a very bad feedback about her. This affected her academic results and pushed her overall results to very low grade. She was really upset and i had to console her many times and gave her hopes.
She was very determinent and strong. She worked hard and she got few offers ( eventually took some marketing position). Until recently she had an another offer from one of the industrial gaints in singapore. The company had short listed her / went through few gruelling rounds of interview and she had hopes that she would get the position. But she didnt get any confirmation call from the company thereafter. When she called them back, she was hinted that her supervisor (during her industrial attachment) had given a very bad feedback about her.
When she told about this to me in the morning, i was really shocked. It really speaks so bad about that particular person. I felt that he is taking advantage of his position and playing with the kids future. What right he has in blocking the offers that she toiled so much to get ? Why people dont understand that WHAT ONE HAS TODAY MAY NOT BE HIS TOMORROW. NOTHING IN THIS MATERIAL WORLD IS GOING TO PERSIST FOR LONGER PERIOD NOR DO THEY BELONG TO US. WHAT WE BROUGHT TO THIS WORLD WHEN WE WERE BORN AND WHAT WE ARE GOING TO BRING BACK WHEN WE DIE?

It is another quite day. Tejas and Neeraj are too naughty. Gave a break to Chitra, i bathed both of them. Believe me, its not soo easy to be a house wife taking caring of two kids, specially ones like Tejas and Neeraj.
Although sunday, i had to shower just because i was tired of settling both of them.
BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY, MY LOVE TOWARDS MY FAMILY IS GAINING MUCH DEEPER ROOTS. I LUV TEJAS, NEERAJ AND CHITRA !!

Is this what you wanted BROTHER !!

Mumbai's commuter train network hit by six blasts set by BASTARDS

My prayers and deepest condolences are with the families of the victims of this cowardly act

raja-vidya raja-guhyam

pavitram idam uttamam

pratyaksavagamam dharmyam

su-sukham kartum avyayam

...the Lord says that this body is perishable and that the soul is not perishable. That is a confidential part of knowledge: simply knowing that the spirit soul is different from this body and that its nature is immutable, indestructible and eternal. But that gives no positive information about the soul. Sometimes people are under the impression that the soul is different from the body and that when the body is finished, or one is liberated from the body, the soul remains in a void and becomes impersonal. But actually that is not the fact. How can the soul, which is so active within this body, be inactive after being liberated from the body? It is always active. If it is eternal, then it is eternally active, and its activities in the spiritual kingdom are the most confidential part of spiritual knowledge.

These activities of the spirit soul are therefore indicated here as constituting the king of all knowledge, the most confidential part of all knowledge. This knowledge is the purest form of all activities, as is explained in Vedic literature. In the Padma Purana, man's sinful activities have been analyzed and are shown to be the results of sin after sin. Those who are engaged in fruitive activities are entangled in different stages and forms of sinful reactions. For instance, when the seed of a particular tree is sown, the tree does not appear immediately to grow; it takes some time. It is first a small, sprouting plant, then it assumes the form of a tree, then it flowers, bears fruit, and, when it is complete, the flowers and fruits are enjoyed by persons who have sown the seed of the tree. Similarly, a man performs a sinful act, and like a seed it takes time to fructify. There are different stages. The sinful action may have already stopped within the individual, but the results or the fruit of that sinful action are still enjoyed. There are sins which are still in the form of a seed, and there are others which are already fructified and are giving us fruit, which we are enjoying as distress and pain.

A person who has completely ended the reactions of all sinful activities and who is fully engaged in pious activities, being freed from the duality of this material world, becomes engaged in devotional service to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krsna. In other words, those who are actually engaged in the devotional service of the Supreme Lord are already freed from all reactions.

For those who are engaged in the devotional service of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, all sinful reactions, whether fructified, in the stock, or in the form of a seed, gradually vanish. Therefore the purifying potency of devotional service is very strong, and it is called pavitram uttamam, the purest. Uttamam means transcendental. Tamas means this material world or darkness, and uttamam means that which is transcendental to material activities. Devotional activities are never to be considered material, although sometimes it appears that devotees are engaged just like ordinary men. One who can see and is familiar with devotional service, however, will know that they are not material activities. They are all spiritual and devotional, uncontaminated by the material modes of nature. ....

Got a reason to celebrate

As put in my previous post i had every reason to celebrate 10th Jun'2006. That completes one year term with NYP. Yesterday i took Chitra, Tejas and Neeraj to Singapore Zoological Gardens. We had a great day. The weather was very pleasant, eventhough it rained heavily for nearly half an hour at around 3pm, it was a perfect gift from GOD to keep us cool all through out the day and enjoy our walking around the various stations in the ZOO.
Tejas and Neeraj were happy watching the animals. They always liked to watch GIRAFFEE, ELEPHANT, LION, TIGER, RHINO, ALIGATORS and KANGAROO. It is a treat to see them in perfect rythm yesterday. We managed to sit in for the ELEPHANTS OF ASIA show - Tejas's favourite.
I never thought that i would be blessed with such a perfect gift.
THANK GOD, MUM AND DAD FOR BLESSING ME WITH EVERYTHING THAT I WISHED

Time is clicking faster than actually realized !

Yes, thatz absolutely true. Everyone, at either one or more instances in thier life would have felt this. I always realized this whenever i had to complete a task at the last minute !
The important fact that i wanted to share with u all is that I HAVE COMPLETED EXACTLY A YEAR ASSOCIATING MYSELF WITH NYP ! Shall i call this a first anniversary with NYP? Even though it had been ten years since i actually started to earn my own living, my one year with NYP had given me more sense of satisfaction than any others. The reason being that i had given a chance to guide young minds towards achieving thier goals. In this process few disliked me and many liked my way of providing guidance. But my stand is very clear - PUT ALL MY STUDENTS BACK ON TRACK, WHICH WOULD EVENTUALLY LEAD THEM TO THE TARGET THAT THEY CHOOSE A FEW YEARS BACK !

It happens in Singapore !

Hi,
Have u ever been stopped near the entrance of a MRT station in singapore for S$1.00 donation? If your answer is YES then everthing around you is going NORMAL. Now, Have u ever been stopped near the entrance of a MRT station to receive a free sample of newly launced product or a copy of free daily? If your answer is YES then you are either a CHINESE or sometimes a MALAY ! If your answer is NO then you are a confirmed INDIAN or confirmed MINORITY in SINGAPORE !
The issue that i want to bring into light is not about THE ELIGIBILITY TO RECIEVE THESE FREE GIFTS but to raise the question, WHETHER SINGAPORE IS REALLY PREPARED TO EMBRACE ALL THE RESOURCES THAT IT HAS BARGAINED FROM THE REST OF THE WORLD FOR ITS GROWTH ?
Last friday i was about to broad a train at Yio Chu Kang MRT station bound to Jurong East. I was walking towards the MRT with my fellow staff Mr.Lim. As we were nearing the station we found a group of young singapore icons distributing free samples of AQUA ROAD ( a product of MapleSEA). Although there was not heavy traffic at the time, the icons managed to pass a sample to my friend and prepared to handover another to another passenger behind me ! I dont want to complaint the fact that i didnt received one. But WHAT IS THE NEED FOR SUCH A STUPID DRAMA where they need to act as if they didnt see me but the rest? I dont know what my friend thought about the STUPIDITY of those people, he just turned to me and told me that HE DOESNT NEED THE PRODUCT BUT INSTEAD I WOULD FIND IT USEFUL, as i had two kids.
Singapore Leaders spend such an enormous effort to bring in TALENTS from different parts of the world to SEE SINGAPORE GROW, SO THAT THIER PEOPLE WOULD PROSPER. They claim that singapore is a role model where people from all the communities live in harmony! But, IS EVERYONE HAS GOT SIMILAR VISION FOR SINGAPORE? ARE WE PREPARED TO ACCEPT THE FACT THAT THERE IS A NEED TO SHARE AND GROW ALONG?

The Tiger in Me !

Parents Day at Bible School, Yew Tee

Bible School Kindergarten Celebrated Parents Day today. Tejas is doing his Nursery II for the past 6 months. Got his progress report. Few of the columns marked as "Good" and the rest "Average". It was not fair to judge a kid based on the feedback from the school. I know about Tejas. He is very obedient and studious guy.

Is it my freedom ?

Quite excited about the fact that i finally got the freedom to express myself ! but secretly !!! Is this a freedom? In the first place, Why the hell do i think that i am bound by some forces to subdue myself expressing the feelings, expressing about the things that i think is right, expressing about the things that i think is wrong !
LET ME UNLEASH MY INNER FEELINGS AS IT HAPPENS