Enemy of My Enemy

How Many Spams Can a Scammer Scam If a Spammer Can Scam Spams?

The question sounds complicated eh? Dah dekat2 cam tounge-twister. Yeah... I hate spammers (who doesn't ek? even spammers pon hate being spammed). Now they got some serious problems when they being attack by carders. Aha... Read the articles. It's from theregister.co.uk.

Carders scam spammers
By John Leyden 24 May 2006 21:02

Fraudsters who deal in stolen credit card data have devised a means to extract money from sponsors of junk mail campaigns.

Carders have signed up as affiliates to spam campaigns, but instead of sending out junk mail themselves they are using stolen credit card data to make purchases from the sponsors of spam campaigns, such as online pharmacies.

The carders earn a cut of these sales of anything between 40 to 50 per cent, the Washington Post's security blog reports, more than enough to make the scam1 viable.

But the sponsors of spam campaigns end up losing out because of charge backs generated when fraudulent purchases are identified. Higher incidents of charge-backs result in higher merchant fees while drawing the attention of banks and credit cards sponsors to dubious businesses. Far from benefiting from increased sales, spam sponsors end up losing out. In this way, card fraudsters are scamming the backers of spam.

Spam sponsors are complaining about been ripped off, a factor that allowed net security firm CipherTrust to identify the new ruse during the course of its work monitoring online spam and fraud forums.

"Basically, we're seeing the carders and phishers starting to look for other ways to make money and starting to discuss new methods of making profits from their scams," CipherTrust research scientist Dmitri Alperovitch said. ®

1 The scam doesn't have a name as yet, but it's surely only a matter of time before it finds a catchy moniker. Philching, pharding and pstinging are among the early suggestions...

Finally eh... Go carders. Make them spammers bankrupt. How in the world la the spammers complaining. They're afterall the unwanted one here.

Afterall, enemy of my enemy is my friend. Is it?
:)

From Fear Through The Eyes Of Madness

The latest instalment of X Men, X Men: The Last Stand was indeed a good movie. Of course if you appreciate fantasies and super-power humans or mutants storyline. It's cool and I love it. Most of my favourite character in X-Men make an appearence in this movie. Ice Man, Pyro, Phoenix, Juggernaut, Beast, Angel and yg lain2 cam Wolverine, Magneto, Storm. Oh yeah, if you guys watch the movie pleaseeeee wait till end of credit. I know it's very long credits but they have some spoof back there. It's worth it I told you.

Congratulations tu a friend. Semalam sepatutnya selamat bernikah. But I've yet to hear from him, yer la dah selamat ke belum, berapa lafaz, and all the usual stuff heheheh....

Skang nih musim cuti sekolah kan, so it's officially musim org kawin balik. Giler full weekend. Arrgghh tak larat weh... Siap ada yg terpaksa diburn kan... Sorry la for those yg invited me but aku tak dtg. It's just ada another wedding yg I have to attend and diorang simply ajak dulu or it's my relatives or diorang more close to me. eheh...

Always and Never

Currently I'm hunting for a new job. New prospect. New environment. This afternoon I have an interview people. Wish me luck.

:)

Let's Shoot the Idiots

Some idiots just doesn't have the rights to say anything la. Any of you guys heard of Malaysian Linguistic Association (Malas)? Not me... Not before their stupid president make a very funny comments recently. Are the association really exists? Or it's just another association that exists just to give people like their president (Ambi Mohan) a freaking title. So he can go like "Hi,my name is Ambi. I'm the President of Malas". Huhh... Terbukti malas (it's lazy in English) la diorang nih. I've tried to google them but there's no websites of the association. Malas tul... ehehe...

Oh yeah, some of you may know what I'm rambling about, but for those who doesn't know I'll paste here the article from NST written by Amir Muhammad in his columns. It really show that this association have a very stupid president (just like America? ooppss :D).
I just wanna to paste the link but NST have take out all article that was published more than 1 week. So here's the articles.

Article 1:

New Straits Times
04 May 2006
Amir Muhammad

Linguists call for ‘Da Vinci Code’ ban

THE Malaysian Linguistic Association (Malas) has echoed calls by other parties to ban the controversial movie The Da Vinci Code.

The film is an adaptation of a best-selling novel that deals with some aspects of the Christian faith. But the objection by Malas has nothing to do with theology because "we don’t even know who Theo is", says its president Ambi Mohan.

The association’s chief objection is, instead, linguistic.

"For too long we have sat by and allowed language to be polluted but we have decided that enough’s enough. The Da Vinci Code should be banned because we don’t want to encourage youngsters to use ‘da’ as a lazy shorthand for ‘the’.

"We see this in rap lyrics," he claims.

"All this talk about ‘hanging out with da hoes’. You should be hanging out with THE hoes. This sort of begs the question of why someone would want to ‘hang out’ with gardening implements to begin with, but I am not here to question lifestyle choices, merely spelling, grammar and semantics."

He said the association might reconsider its protests if the filmmakers changed its name to The The Vinci Code.

"But even this is problematic because having two ‘thes’ in a row look ugly. So the film should be called The Vinci Code."

The film’s producers could not be reached for comment.

Oh man... Did he ever heard of Leonardo Da Vinci. Oh, maybe it's Leonardo The Vinci. Muahahahah... And what's with the example? 'hanging out with THE hoes' hehhehe... Aku yg english berterabur nih pon malu la nak ngaku ko president persatuan linguistik. Cis...

Article 2:

News Straits Times
11 May 2006
Amir Muhammad

Linguists seek Harry Potter ban

FRESH from its controversial call to ban The Da Vinci Code (NST, May 4), the Malaysian Linguistic Association (Malas) is once more taking aim at a pop-cultural institution be- loved of bourgeois readers.

Its president Ambi Mohan wants the final Harry Potter book banned. What’s unusual about this is that the book has yet to be published! The seventh and last instalment of British writer J.K. Rowling’s franchise about a boy wizard is due out only in July 2007 and does not even have a confirmed title yet.

"There’s nothing wrong with asking for something to be banned before we can fully ascertain its contents," he says while adjusting his trademark bow-tie. "This read-before-you-judge concept is very Eurocentric and not suited to our tropical climate."

The association’s objection to Harry Potter is not merely linguistic this time, but in the interest of national security.

"As a patriotic Malaysian, it is my duty to speak up," he says. "My sister Anadil, who attended a charity dinner hosted by an anti-drug foundation, told me that ‘pot’ is slang for marijuana. Therefore I suspect that Harry’s surname of Potter indicates that he is a drug addict. Potter means he specialises in pot, just as a ‘fighter’ is someone who fights and ‘forester’ someone who deals with forests. You’d need to be a linguist to figure this out."

Ambi confirms that he has no solid evidence to back this claim "but the data that we have is highly persuasive. Only a drug addict would imagine he is a wizard who can fly and disappear and perform magical tricks.

These things cannot happen in reality as they defy the laws of Physics, which I studied at secondary school. Also his initials are HP which can stand for Hemp Promotion."

He has another theory. "The reason why this final Harry Potter book is shrouded in mystery is that the author does not want to reveal its drug content. She knows this will cause the book to be banned in Malaysia (a very important market for the books) so she is keeping quiet.

I think the final book will reveal that Harry gets his amazing powers by smoking ganja, tooting on joints and firing up doobies!" he says and starts to giggle uncontrollably.

Rowling and her publisher could not be reached for comment although we really tried.

Hahaha.. this one even better. The reason not merely linguistic but it's for national security. Aper la alasan ko nih... Do you afraid Harry Potter will be You Know Who allied and use their power to attack our beloved country. Oh, for God sake, shut your stinking mouth la. Don't get me started to his alasan using word 'pot' as the reason to why we should ban the book.

I found this somewhat funny and it's too good to be true la. Amir, what you have against this Ambi by the way? or is it just you pon tak tahan dengan komen2 mangkuk nih. eheh...

Say what? Ughhh geramnya...

2 movies, a wedding and a lot of television series

The title pretty much sum up what I'm up to for the past week. I watch Poseidon and The Da Vinci Code. For Poseidon, what can I say... The movie is pretty straight forward suspens movie. More or less like Armageddon, Perfect Storm kind of movie. The movie was quite good though in my opinion. Entertaining nevertheless.

Da Vinci Code on the other hand, wasn't that good. Quite dissappointing for me. I've read numerous comments and reviews for this movie and I agree in most of them. For me, whoever read the book before watching the movie will not enjoy the cinema version that much. But people who didn't read the book and go straight for the movie instead will find it somewhat entertaining. It's not because those who've read know all the surprises and secrets but it merely the book is far more interesting.

On Saturday, I attend Amri's and Aishah's wedding. Congratulations to the newlyweds. You guys look great together. (No means to insult ur ex tau Aishah.. :D) But really you better off with Aie la... The reception was held at Dewan Precint 8, Putrajaya. A lot of ex-schoolmates came. Cam reunion la plak. eheh.. Senang2 takyah aa wat reunion lagik ek... Kalo ada schoolmate yg kawin sama ngan schoolmate kan senang. Don't worry, more weddings camnih will come. Muahahahaha.....

Skang nih cam malas giler nak gi mana2 lepas balik keje. What i do ialah, qada' all the tv series yg dah download tuh tapi blom tgk. Skang nih most of the series dah nak season finale. So cambest jer. Prison break mmg sangat memecahkan kepala otak aku tul la. Dah la tgh2 season ari tuh diorang sajer jer stop show for 3 months. Skang nih finale dia sangat2 la mendebarkan. Kalo sakit jantung ngan takde kesabaran tuh jgn tgk la. GG pon dah abis season. Scrubs, Numb3rs, CSI, Smallville ngan The OC pon sama. Skang nak abiskan Supernatural, Ghost Whisperer, House ngan Grey's plak. Wahhh... best giler. Tuh yg thesis aku tak nak siap2 nih. Isk isk isk...

Ciao for now.

Dozz...

I'm down with flu, again. Just past 2 weeks after balik from Perhentian I was down with batuk and all. Now the flu. No, it's not bird flu eh. ;) Hopefully I will be okay by today coz I really wanna play basketball tonight.

Tuh jer la. Ngantuk siot ubat nih.

Daa...

Quizzical

I listen to almost any music that I feel good. Regardless its genre. I listen to local artists as well as international singer. I do feels some of our local singer have a good voice, great music and all. How they didn't get far in the industry don't ask me. Many of them yg I feel can go far only produces one or two albums. One hit wonder phenom I would say.

Juliet The Orange - one of them also used to be in Brodwyn with their hit song(only song that I know) - Ode From A Psychopath
I really like their music. If you never heard of them u'll surely think they're an international artist. Maybe from UK or whatnot.

Blind Tribe - a talented band that plays hardcore.

Indecisive - their only song i know was Empty Decorations (Kopitiam OST). Diorang nih ada album ke tak?

This are antara band yg I really like to know where are they now? What have happened to them? Pastu where Positive Tone nowadays? The labels used to produced a great album from new local artists. I know their boss Izham now was with 8TV but takkan takde label lain yg continue their efforts?

Hmm...

p/s byk lg band2 local yg aku rasa talented, tapi tak ingat their details la... kalo igt aku tambah...

Pi Mai Pi Mai Tang Tu

Awat laaa... cek tgk hampa suma nih.. pi mai pi mai pi mai tang tuuuu jugak... takpaa la noo.. ikut hampa la... cek takda hal... bebaik noo... ;)

Lantai T. Pinkie

i manage to watch lantai t. pinkie at istana budaya last friday. thanks to haizal for secure the tix for us. i know, i still owe you man. eheh... this is the first time i watch a show at istana budaya. memula sampai giler pusing-pusing carik parking. haizal dah sampai awal lagi. first time tuh dia sampai awal kalo tak manjang lambat jer. terpaksa la dia tunggu me n dla sampai hehehe.. sori la bro...

okey talk about the show... IMHO it was so-so... not bad and not that good.... i can't compare it with other t. pinkie show that have been staged before coz this is my first time watch it... fyi this is the third time they staged the show based on A. Samad Said novel. The first one I think the main actress was Tiara, second is Safura and now it's Nasha Aziz.

it was a full house that night. tgk2 rupanya2 there's a vip in the house. there was dato' sharizat. a. samad said also was present. patut la full. kitorang nyer seat best thanks again to haizal. about the show, set dia cantik. ye lar before nih aku just layan show2 kat actorstudio yg tak mementingkan set... but kat actorsstudio pon banyak show2 yg menarik. there's a lot of talented actors and actresses there... one thing, nasha mmg cun la... and because nature of the story yg cerita pasal life seorang penari yg saban masa menggoyangkan their ass... so i think they use prop to make it look bigger in most of the actresses.. even nasha if i'm not mistaken la... nyang sunarti or azizah mahzan pon sama.. obvious giler... maybe that's how the director tackle the story... from their point of view... if you read the novel, A. Samad Said punya bahasa mmg sangat2 jalanan la. tapi for this theater the director dah put it into words yg sangat deep. so kena concentrate sepanjang the show if nak understand what the story is all about.

ada part2 yg kelakar. especially by s.diman. dong ding dong ding dong!!! part2 menari dia tak best sangat la. i don't know la what's missing but macam tak cukup ummpphh... lagu dia pon kureng... sori la pak ngah ek, this is just my 2 cents...nasha pon menari keras jerk... tapi lakonan nyang sunarti(azizah mahzan), gunjoloh(azhan abd. ghani) and jongkidin jaroi (jalaludin hassan) sgt berkesan... even puteh su(soong ai ling) pon okay... "tua tapi ***, keras tapi mengerti"... eheh (saper yg tgk paham la kot ek)

antara lain yg cam dissappointed sket is diorang tak nyanyi live... masa monolog or berlakon it's live but masa part nyanyi diorang miming jer... isk isk isk... menurut director because of budget kecik so diorang tak dpt nak adakan live band performance... ala wat minus one la.. u should not miming la... tak best nampak kadang2 mulut2 pelakon tuh tak sync ngan lagu... :)

overall aku kira puas hati la... sebab first time kan.. so tak tahu la nak compare ngan aper :)...

Stormy Afternoon

Yesterday, there was a storm in PJ area. My house was affected. Many trees were uprooted. Even my house also was basah because the water seems managed to find their way in. Habis basah tilam. On the bright side, dapat la mopped rumah semalam. So cam bersih and wangi sket. eheh... Here's the news and pic.

Trashed and Scattered

Updated

A long weekend. First of all Happy Labour Day. Just came back from a weekend getaway to Perhentian Island. One of snorkelling paradise in our country I might say. It was my first time snorkelling in such a beautiful place. The coral, the water, the fish and the view simply breathtaking. Accompanied by cool people add more nice memories to the trip.


I used to dream about go underwater, snorkelling or scuba diving. Underwater, other side of the world that we need to see and enjoy. I can't describe the scenery coz it was so damn cun... The fish eating from your palm and even one or two bite ur finger while their at it. Heheh... Talking about things you have to do in life. At least once you need to go underwater laa... Trust me.


The journey started with me and zahar using the lrt to go to Putra Bus Station. On the way something really shitty happened to me. My pda suddenly hang and when I reset the damn thing it was formatting itself. All my contact numbers, sms-es, mms-es, calendar, notes, basically everything was erased. It was a disaster I told u. Being me yg tak penah nak hafal number phone. Damn... Luckily I just do a full backup before went to the trip but still I only can retrieve all the data only after 3 days. It was first time my lovely pda do that to me. Now I am officially will do a full backup of all my data at least once a week. And also backup all my data in the storage card.



Okay back to the journey, we arrived at Putra Bus Station around 9.30pm. Most of bebudak nih dah sampai but to tell u the truth, bapak panas giler station bus tuh. Sumer berpeluh sakan and I'm being sangat easy berpeluh nih not helping at all. Bukan takat ujan jer nih mmg basah abis aaa...



Our bus arrived exactly at 10pm. We all very excited to start the journey. And me plak, dah 2-3 hari rasa cam nak demam. Hopefully tak demam la at the pulau. Tanak aa jadik cam jeg, masa pegi punya excited, sampai2 jer terus demam tak hengat. Sepanjang holiday kitorang kat Summerset tuh dia dok dlm bilik. Masa balik sampai kat kuala pilah jer dah okay balik. Hahahah..tuh la mulut tuh cabul sangat. Kan dah kena penangan Endau-Rompin. And for me plak sepanjang perjalanan ke jeti Kuala Besut from KL, aku tido jer most of the time. Sori la guys, penting tuh rehat and hasilnya aku kembali sihat walafiat sepanjang berada di Perhentian.



Sampai kat Kuala Besut mmg timing canteek aaa... Dlm kul 6.30am. Semayang, breakfast pastu naik bot gi pulau. Huhuhu... seriously cantik beb, dalam bot masa matahari tgh naik. Ughhh love it. Pastu mamat bot nih bawak laju, mentang2 la bot baru. Aku tgk license dia, bot tuh usia dia tak sampai setahun pon. Orang2 yg dok kat depan bot tuh abis terhentak2 bila langgar wave. Sian kat Nani, sampai muntah2.


After check-in kat Flora Bay Resort, Pulau Perhentian Besar. Kitorang rehat2 sampai kul 12. Pastu lunch and terus ke tempat snorkelling. Kitorang should ada at least 3 sesi snorkelling. So petang tuh snorkelling jer. Mmg menarik abis. Bayangkan la, first tempat kitorang stop was called Tiga Ruang. Actually kat situ diorang bawak just for familiarkan saper2 yg first timer tuh ngan how to snorkelling. Camner nak pakai mask, camner nak ketatkan mask, camner nak nafas ikut mulut and all the basics of snorkelling. But bebudak yg tak tahu ingatkan kat situ first site for snorkelling coz kat situ pon mmg ada banyak coral ngan ikan yg colourful. Pastuh bila kitorang cakap yg tuh just tempat training lagi2 la excited. Kalo tempat training camtuh punya cun, camner la kat site snorkelling yg betul2 ek. Perghh... Indescribeable tul...


Antara tempat yg kitorang stop for snorkelling session was Pulau Rawa, Shark Point, Turtle Bay, tempat Nemo (clown fish), and byk lagi la. Isk sgt menarik la. I just wish I could bring my baby sekali. Mesti excited giler. Ishhh.... Lenkali kot. Kitorang singgah kat Long Beach (Perhentian Kecil) for lunch. Tempat mencuci mata bebudak perv yg tak penah tgk mat saleh topless. Tapi the beach mmg cantik giler. The water is crystal clear, the sand sgt halus and white and we even can see colourful small fish swimming dekat2 ngan pantai. Takyah snorkelling pon takper. eheh....


On the first night after dinner and bola(bodohnyer ManU... nak kalah pon jangan sampai camtuh sekali wei...) we have an activity called Poyo Night. Dah nama pon poyo kan so sumer kena la be sepoyo mungkin. It's a crime for not being poyo. And saper yg cakap ko poyola tuh adalah salah. Malam tuh mmg kena poyo sepoyo poyonyer. (hmm... byknyer guna poyo dlm ayat, salah kot nih... :P) The games was same like Win, Lose or Draw. It's just we use sign language despite drawings to make people guess the sentences. Seres lawak giler.... Siap ada hadiah hamper tuh.



Second night plak bbq session. Sesi melantak yg sangat lantak. Lantak ko la kan. Mind you every sessions and activities sgt2 diselang selikan dengan game yg highly addictive. Card games. For the girls it's UNO. And for the boys there's none that could beat the old colaities or some called it big 2 using a deck of card. Yeah, it's full house, pair, single, four of a kind, flush, royal flush and straight all over again. heheheh....


Dah kalau pegi pantai tuh kan, tak bermakna la kalau tak main bola sepak pantai ngan beach volleyball. Berpeluh2 siot, padahal main sajer2 jer. And lagi satu the most inticipated activity. Gigam session. It's gila gambar for you who doesnt know. Amik gambar cam siot jer. Tak ingat dunia punyer. Aku balik ngan memory card yg full. Ouch... :) Tuh belum masuk sessi mengenakan orang lain tuh. Saper2 yg tanak basah sila2 bersedia. Abis kena angkat masuk laut. Zahar yg first kena. Abis aa ngan jeans segala basah. Pastuh Elyas, tapi dah ready so tak best sgt la. Apis punya la melawan. Tuh la apis lenkali jangan melawan, bukan nak kena culik. Kan dah koyak pouch bag ko. Sori la ek. Lipih yg dah basah ingatkan kitorang nak angkat dia masuk laut gak, tapi silap la. Kalo dah basah mari kita guling-gulingkan atas pasir. Pastuh setan mana tah campak pasir dlm seluar baju sekali. Muahahahahah.... puas hati....


Okayla, senang citer. The vacation is da' bomb. Giler menar aa... Snorkelling menar... Lepak2 borak2 citer lama menar... Amik gambar menar... Tido kat hammock menar... Yg tak menar just this time of year takde angin sangat. So panas giler. Plus the sunburn (but thanks to my syg for the sun block, takde la teruk sgt my skin). eheh.. ala tanak sunburn jgn pegi pulau la.

Ciao.

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p/s will update about my trip to Perhentian Island soon. Nak upload the photos sure take a long time. Sighh...