The Wise Monkeys

One of the 4 Wise Monkeys (skelm) does a fair bit of coding in his spare time (and for money any businesses who are interested!).

He has written a free RSS Alerter that will display gmail notifyer like alerts whenever there is a new news posting on one of your specified websites.

You can use this program to keep completely up to date with the going ons of 4 Wise Monkeys and to recieve desktop alerts when there is some progress with DC Marketing!

Click here to read more about this or to see how you can get a copy of the source code!

Or click here to view the forum thread about this app!

Click here for a screenshot of an alert
Click here for a screenshot of the menu

Wow… Who would have thought that we would have had this much support from the public. When we started fighting this we really had no idea how big DC Marketings scam is. It is great to see the Australian public band together to fight this… Now enough of that, and on to the juicy stuff:

4 Wise Monkeys has done an interview with A Current Affair detailing our involvement in fighting the DC Marketing scam (Yes Mr. Gruber, I do beleive this is a scam and will call it a scam if that is how I feel: A scam by definition: “A ploy by a shyster to raise money.” or “A confidence trick, confidence game, or con for short (also known as a scam)”). A Current Affair has also done some great work with the research they have done as well as the information we have provided. You can watch this tonight after 6:30 (i’ve no idea what exact time it will be on) on Channel 9.

DC Marketing, sit down, enjoy the show and then be happy that you still have your “happy customer base” (really, how can you keep saying you have a ‘customer base’ when you are using missed call marketing practices?)

Since we have had this massive hit spike we have been trying to find ways that we can keep people coming back to the website.

One of the biggest problems we have had is that from when this website first went live we have had a very difficuly domain name to remember….

We have been negotiating with the owner of wisemonkeys.com to sell us the domain… unfortunately we just can’t afford the purchase price at this point in time

Since that’s the case I’ve actually weirded out a bit on the other monkies and bought two new domains to point to http://4wisemonkeys.com. These are http://wisemonkies.com (notice the inacurate spelling) and http://4wisemonkies.com (because I just know with all the media attention some people are going to spell it wrong!).

Please allow 24hours for these to propogate and then feel free to use them.

Enjoy!

Hello again! I just finished an interview with Conor from The World Today (612AM) about DC Marketing and Call-Australia which should be aired at 12:00 lunchtime today! As a reminder the Triple J interview (click here for link) should also be on ‘the hack’ this afternoon providing that their lawyers approve the story.

update: This went to air and was almost as good as planned! Unfortunately a lot of our finidngs couldn’t be mentioned as their legal team rejected it (it isn’t all information in the public domain)…. We think this is also the same reason why the interview for ‘The hack’ is taking so long to come to air. - skelm

In referance to: Media: Triple J

We now have confirmation that 4 Wise Monkeys will be speaking with Ronan from Triple J (107.7FM) on 'the hack' today (Monday 19th June) between 5:30pm and 6:00pm (although it is expected to be in the first half of the show).

You can listen in online at http://abc.net.au/triplej

I will update this post with a link to Triple J's podcast of the interview for those that who may be interested but can't tune in.

This will now be on Tuesday the 20th of June as Triple J's legal team still has to approve the story We will link to the podcast tomorrow for those that miss the show.

If you missed the show you can listen to the Podcast avaiable at  http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/hack/notes/mp3s/mobilescams2.mp3

We have received word today that skelm and I will be interviewed by Triple J in the upcoming days. At the current time we are not 100% sure when the interview will air, though we are asuming it will air during their show "Hack" 5:30pm weeknights.

Earleir in the week, hack hosted a segment in regards to this scam which you can download from their website, due to the huge responce they received they have asked up to speak up on air about the situation - an offer we can not refuse!

2Ser (click here for the link) has contacted 4 Wise Monkeys and requested an interview. We will be doing this interview tonight and it will be broadcasted tomorrow on their ‘Razors Edge’ program. Good to see the public awareness growing!

The Age has also run an article on 4 Wise Monkeys, unfortunately they have our link wrong but I have contacted them and this is being fixed very soon. You can view the article by clicking here.