This lady posted that she was going to a concert, and one of the new people on her facebook used to that know that she wasn't going to be home. The new facebook friend then broke into her house and stole her stuff.
Lessons:
1. Don't add odd people to your facebook friends list.
2. Don't give up too much info to your facebook friends.
Friday, March 26, 2010
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
I've Said This Before
Anyone who knows me and my siblings know that we all left Utah County as soon as we became of age.
Today, like many days before, I am given to opportunity to say, "At least I don't live in Utah County!"
Here are the projected Real Estate prices percentage drops for the year 2010. Salt Lake County is definitely getting the less-worse end of the deal.
Read HERE
Today, like many days before, I am given to opportunity to say, "At least I don't live in Utah County!"
Here are the projected Real Estate prices percentage drops for the year 2010. Salt Lake County is definitely getting the less-worse end of the deal.
Read HERE
Don't Get Dooped: Facebook Phishing Scam
Read HERE
Facebook has made an announcement to let their users know about a new phishing email scam that is aimed at Facebook users. You get an email asking you to provide you email. If you provide it, someone else then has your Facebook password.
Phishing is a term used to describe the act of a group of douche-bags sending you a fake email (an email that looks like it is from someone who it isn't really from) or sending you to a fake website (a site that looks like it is some other site, in this case, Facebook) and ask you to enter your username and password. Once you enter your username and password, they will log you into the site and you will think all is well. Until all of your contacts receive bogus spam from your account.
Here is a fact, for those in doubt: Major site, like facebook, twitter, google, yahoo, etc... will never email you and ask you for your password. If you get an email that asks you for your password, it isn't from that major site.
Here is another fact, for those of you in doubt: the following two websites are very different-
http://www.facebook.com/LoginPage
http://10.50.100.1/www.facebook.com/LoginPage
The second site is a phishing site. If even one letter is different than what you know the web address is, then that means it is a different site. If I gave you my bank account number, and made a mistake and it was one number off, then you would have my incorrect account number. The same goes for web addresses. If you are even one letter different, then it isn't the right address.
If you ever end up at a phishing site, do the following:
1- Close the browser without logging in.
2- Clear your internet cache and temporary files.
3- If you had an email that sent you to the site, delete it.
4- If it was a link, posted by a friends account, notify your friend that they were dooped and warn other not to follow the link.
Be smart. The internet is very simple, but the gimmicks can be elaborate. Just follow the simple things you know about your trusted sites and you should be fine.
Facebook has made an announcement to let their users know about a new phishing email scam that is aimed at Facebook users. You get an email asking you to provide you email. If you provide it, someone else then has your Facebook password.
Phishing is a term used to describe the act of a group of douche-bags sending you a fake email (an email that looks like it is from someone who it isn't really from) or sending you to a fake website (a site that looks like it is some other site, in this case, Facebook) and ask you to enter your username and password. Once you enter your username and password, they will log you into the site and you will think all is well. Until all of your contacts receive bogus spam from your account.
Here is a fact, for those in doubt: Major site, like facebook, twitter, google, yahoo, etc... will never email you and ask you for your password. If you get an email that asks you for your password, it isn't from that major site.
Here is another fact, for those of you in doubt: the following two websites are very different-
http://www.facebook.com/LoginPage
http://10.50.100.1/www.facebook.com/LoginPage
The second site is a phishing site. If even one letter is different than what you know the web address is, then that means it is a different site. If I gave you my bank account number, and made a mistake and it was one number off, then you would have my incorrect account number. The same goes for web addresses. If you are even one letter different, then it isn't the right address.
If you ever end up at a phishing site, do the following:
1- Close the browser without logging in.
2- Clear your internet cache and temporary files.
3- If you had an email that sent you to the site, delete it.
4- If it was a link, posted by a friends account, notify your friend that they were dooped and warn other not to follow the link.
Be smart. The internet is very simple, but the gimmicks can be elaborate. Just follow the simple things you know about your trusted sites and you should be fine.
Monday, March 22, 2010
My take on the Healthcare action
I was asked why I didn't post today on the healthcare action. I will post later tonight. You will get an update then.
Tears of Joy and Sadness
So... Walmart is experiencing same-store shrinkage, and has for the 3rd straight quarter. Same-store shrinkage means that their year-over-year returns for individual stores is shrinking. They experienced growth, because they opened new stores over the last three quarters, but their stock dropped when they released the news of this same-store problem to the public.
They implemented a plan last year to use less shelf space for different sizes of products (meaning: cereal is one size, not multiple sizes per type) and that has back fired big time. The silent-hand has spoken, and it has said "Fine, I will go somewhere else!" So... they are suffering. That makes me happy.
The sadness I am feeling is because they are currently course correcting and changing this problem with their shelving space. Additionally, after reports came out that WinCo (a California based supermarket) has beating Walmart's prices over 80% of the time, Walmart has begun putting on the gloves. This means that they will drop their prices, which is the one thing that they are more capable of doing than any other retailer in the country.
Click HERE to read more about the Walmart news.
They implemented a plan last year to use less shelf space for different sizes of products (meaning: cereal is one size, not multiple sizes per type) and that has back fired big time. The silent-hand has spoken, and it has said "Fine, I will go somewhere else!" So... they are suffering. That makes me happy.
The sadness I am feeling is because they are currently course correcting and changing this problem with their shelving space. Additionally, after reports came out that WinCo (a California based supermarket) has beating Walmart's prices over 80% of the time, Walmart has begun putting on the gloves. This means that they will drop their prices, which is the one thing that they are more capable of doing than any other retailer in the country.
Click HERE to read more about the Walmart news.
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