As some of you may have noticed, we sent out an email to previous visitors of the 4wisemonkeys visitors. Our email software made a giant mistake and also sent out a list of the email address of our previous visitors by mistake
We sincerely apologise for this!
Well it’s been one year since the world heard about the tragic death of an Australian Icon, a hero, a legend… I’m talking about Stece Irwin of course.
The pain for most is still as raw as it was when the news first broke.
So it’s been a while, we are all well aware of this. Today I bring some good news - some damn good news regarding out “friends” the scammers at DC Marketing.
“A MOBILE phone marketing company has been fined almost $150,000 over spamming practices that affected thousands of people over the past 12 months.”
Poor DC Marketing, this is such a shame. It is thanks to the public and media who supported us through this campaign against DC Marketing that this has happened.
….The monkeys may have something big coming up soon, so please keep in touch.
Update (Posted by skelm): View the SMH article here.
Before I start my rant, let me explain I am acting on behalf of my partner, and this activity happens at other service providers as well.
My girlfriend is the account holder on the Dodo dial-up account at her mothers place. Around the end of October, Dodo contacted the mothers house in regards to an offer to upgrade to broadband internet….
Thanks to Shane P for sending in this (click here) link to a recording of the suspected scam run by Unlimited Tones that we covered earlier in the year (click here).
If you have any more information on this suspectd scam please contact us through the contact form or forums.
We have now had 3 e-mails from people about the number 03 8844 0400. The most recent of which detailed the following:
I have had this number call me on my mobile for the last 4 days at least 3 times
a day. When I answer there is nothing on the end of the phone. When I ring back
(I make sure I use the work phone hehe) I get this message “This number is not
in service” in an American accent and it hangs up. Now I was rung from this
number on Friday and a guy saying he was from Optus wanting to speak to either
me or my husband (he knew both our names). He said his name was Tom. The number
is 03 8844 0400. Whats going on here???
Upon doing some research into this number I have found out that the line is actually owned by Primus Telecom
and was issued on the 25th of January 2002 - Which would lead me to believe that this is NOT Optus calling.
Always be careful not to give out any personal information over the phone without some valid steps of authentication (names of the person leasing the number is NOT enough as this information can be easily obtained). If you are unsure then ask for a number to contact them back on, and always record who you speak to.
Many thanks to John, Paula and Mandi for putting us onto this!
Thanks to Andy of BigBuddaBoom, pmcmahon, Dallas of mith.com.au, Ray, Jivlain, all of the guys at Enya and anyone else that has told us about the Australian I.T. story on Missed call marketing.
You can see the story here: http://australianit.news.com.au/arti…^15306,00.html and here: http://australianit.news.com.au/arti…nbv%5e,00.html.
Our forum entry on this can be found here: http://www.4wisemonkeys.com/community/showthread.php?t=154.
Thanks guys!
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