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Re: Questions & Updates « Reply #3840 on: April 14, 2012, 03:41 AM »
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It's always with MW and never any other sites though lol  Maybe they think I should be checking out rugby websites Very Happy
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Re: Questions & Updates « Reply #3841 on: April 27, 2012, 09:27 PM »
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The server is having CPU issues since at least 24 hours ago which I think is causing the website to occasionally and briefly not load.

It's being investigated.
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Re: Questions & Updates « Reply #3842 on: April 27, 2012, 09:42 PM »
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I had noticed that, particularly earlier this evening, and it seems to be running slow at the moment.
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Re: Questions & Updates « Reply #3843 on: May 02, 2012, 10:46 AM »
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80kate - she spamming members directly?  I got message below - never heard of qwyzzle!

Hey,

I say on the forum that you used to play qwyzzle.

If you liked the game I can tell you there's a new qwyzzle on www.qwyzzle2.com  nervous

Same concept, 100 new qwyzzle-questions. Main difference is that the new qwyzzle costs 5 euro (I always wondered why the first qwyzzle was for free Wink.

If you liked the first qwyzzle, you will like this one too. Check it out and you can decide for yourself if you think €5,- is a fair price for it.

Good luck with it if you decide to play  pray
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Re: Questions & Updates « Reply #3844 on: May 02, 2012, 11:17 AM »
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A load of spammers birthdays coming up too!  All set up accounts on 5th February Rolling Eyes
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Re: Questions & Updates « Reply #3845 on: May 02, 2012, 03:20 PM »
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That's really freaky Bev! Was it an email?
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Re: Questions & Updates « Reply #3846 on: May 02, 2012, 03:56 PM »
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SCAM ALERT   It's called Ebiz, and, if you pay a small sum to join, they'll let you have details of how you can earn money working on your computer at home.  Stupidly I fell for it, and paid them this sum.  They then helped themselves to my bank account claiming I had set up a direct debit for a fairly substantial monthly fee.  Also once you've got caught up in this snare you'll get very chatty emails from a James Franklin which will encourage you to buy certain products (I ignore these things anyway).

Check out Ebiz/Franklin on the internet.  Last time I looked 340 claims had been lodged against them.  Domain is believed to be somewhere in Germany.  This scam was set up in December 2011 and has gone global.

The Fraud Dept of my bank now have their details.  I thought changing my debit card would stop them, but doing this won't stop direct debits from being deducted - to do that you have to contact the people you have this set up with.  They do have a telephone number for Ebiz, but of course when you dial it you're told that the number doesn't exist.
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Re: Questions & Updates « Reply #3847 on: May 02, 2012, 05:05 PM »
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Oh my God Aileen....How awful for you! How on earth did you manage to get it stopped?
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Re: Questions & Updates « Reply #3848 on: May 02, 2012, 07:23 PM »
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Quote from: Caz on May 02, 2012, 03:20 PM
That's really freaky Bev! Was it an email?

Personal message via MW. No posts but 2 PM's to me now! I probably deserved the 2nd message as I sent the poo emoticon back to them Whistle but I was annoyed!
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Re: Questions & Updates « Reply #3849 on: May 02, 2012, 07:28 PM »
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Quote from: Caz on May 02, 2012, 05:05 PM
Oh my God Aileen....How awful for you! How on earth did you manage to get it stopped?
I'm hoping the Bank's Fraud Dept will be able to do something about it.  I noticed the first direct debit payment on 20 January.  In my ignorance, I thought just changing my debit card would stop this, but as I've warned folk above, that isn't the case, and they took money off me again in February and March before I realised it (should pay more attention to bank statements!).    This was when I phoned the Fraud Dept and was told the onus was on me to get in touch with this organisation.  Well of course that isn't possible.  No money was taken in April - but I've been told that that's how these scum work.  They'll only do it for short periods of time because they know that lessens their chances of being caught.

So I'm just under £200 out of pocket - money I've been told I'll probably never recover, and the bank are holding me responsible for falling for it in the first place ... like I'm the only person who's ever done that!! What infuriates me is that I've always been security conscious - won't even do banking online, never divulge my bank details to anyone, or any of my passwords, but sadly fell for the apparently good chance of making a bit more money to supplement my State Pension.  Could kick myself, but these sort of people are so plausible and appear to be so bona fide that that's why their scams work.  I even checked Ebiz out online before committing myself and it sounded like a reputable company - but that was back in early January, and it was February before people mainly in the US, Canada and Europe started to wake up to the fact they'd been duped.  In comparison  to some of the stories I've read, I got off fairly lightly.

Sorry for droning on, but if this stops just one person from falling for these scams, then I reckon it's worth it.
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Re: Questions & Updates « Reply #3850 on: May 02, 2012, 07:36 PM »
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hug Sorry to hear of your unfortunate experience Aileen.
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Re: Questions & Updates « Reply #3851 on: May 02, 2012, 08:08 PM »
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Aileen you have to be so careful I was being charged for things I did not buy. I was lucky though the money was refunded bu the bank. Now I always check my bank statement.
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Re: Questions & Updates « Reply #3852 on: May 02, 2012, 08:08 PM »
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Thanks Bev. hug
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Re: Questions & Updates « Reply #3853 on: May 02, 2012, 08:14 PM »
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Quote from: Littlebuddha on May 02, 2012, 08:08 PM
Aileen you have to be so careful I was being charged for things I did not buy. I was lucky though the money was refunded bu the bank. Now I always check my bank statement.
Well since that incident I too have been charged for something I didn't buy from a company in the US I'd never heard of, so obviously my debit card details were passed on, but at least that has been sorted out now.  I do read my bank statement but in the past have been guilty of not going through it carefully enough.  That has changed!
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Re: Questions & Updates « Reply #3854 on: May 02, 2012, 09:33 PM »
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Sorry this happened to you Aileen.. and thanks for warning others.
So many scams out there.. and some are so sophisticated it's easy to be misled.  It takes a lot to get one over on me, but I've been scammed in the past with a disgusting Canadian company who claimed to be the best resource to keep your child safe and in finding them if they went missing.  Their booth was right next to RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) at an exhibition, they looked legit. Very savvy and played right into parents' worst fears.  Long boring story, but the gist of it is I had to close my bank account, get in touch with all my payees (mortgage, all the bills, etc..) and write new cheques.
Nightmare but had to be done.
The only thing I'm happy about is that I didn't get around to sending in their DNA sample kit on my son.  I shudder to think what they would have done with that!!!
I also reported them to Toronto Fraud Squad.
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