Steve’s Stuff

Omphalophobia

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010 Steve's Stuff No Comments

I suffer from omphalophobia.

I didn’t think to look it up before now and not only does my fear of belly buttons have a name, there are others out there that feel exactly the same way as I do.

I can look at mine or someone else’s belly button, but I can’t touch mine, can’t stand having mine touched by someone else and I can’t stand someone else touching their own.

Piercings etc are fine, as long as they’re not being played with.

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A scam, but how?

Saturday, August 14th, 2010 Rants 4 Comments

I don’t know how this scam works, or what they get out of it. Do they get the circuit breakers using a stolen credit card number and then we get hit with a charge back? Or do they then decide to pay us by some other method when a dialogue is started? If I wasn’t so busy at work I’d reply to one of these to find out how it works.

I’ll paste a couple of samples.. I get them semi regularly. They are submitted via the online contact page on our web page.

Sample #1

This is an enquiry e-mail via http://keemin.com.au from:

Mr. Terry Smith <terry.smith3008@gmail.com>

Hello Owner,

My name is Mr. Terry Smith, and i amĀ  inquiring about safety switches and i want to know if you do have some in stock or if you can special order them for me. Please if you can special order them for me i will be very glad for you to email me back the total cost for the safety switches and the quantities below.

63A 2 Pole Hager earth leakage circuit breakers………Qty : 30

Please kindly get back to me with the total cost including GST only but excluding freight cost OK. If i may ask, do you take credit card payments and whats the surcharge on each card you take? Also how soon can you get them ready for the pick up if i make the payment to you?

Thank you and i look forward to your reply shortly.

Regards…….

Mr. Terry Smith

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Professional Spam

Saturday, August 14th, 2010 Rants No Comments

How professional can you be when you use a gmail email address to spam and try and sell a service? A link to the company and a company email address would go a long way to making these emails legitimate, but I guess they aren’t legitimate so it doesn’t matter that they think using a public email address is OK.

Keith Madison <kentcornwall3333@gmail.com>

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