Cursed Smart Bro

Darn, I have no Internet connection again. I was working until 230 am when my connection got disconnected. I immediately called Smart Bro Customer Car hotline after I did some basic troubleshooting, and guess what my base station is down again.

I tried again this morning only to find out that it is still down. I requested for a re-homing of my base station but it is as if I am begging to get a service from them. They said that it is not possible to schedule a contractor to visit our house to check my connection since they have to evaluate first the parameters for my connection which they cannot do since my base station is down. So what they want me to do is wait for the base station to be fixed before they can schedule the re-homing of my base station. And they can’t promise me when will it be fix and after it is fixed I have to wait for 24 hours for feedback since the support group has to evaluate first the report created by the customer care agent.

So I was really frustrated when I woke up this morning as I feel that I have to beg them to give me service for something that I am paying for. Damn Smart Bro. I don’t want to go through all if this hassle so later I will be calling PLDT to apply for DSL and I will have my Smart Bro connection cut as soon as I have my DSL.

Status: Online

After eight days of being offline, our Internet connection was restored last Thursday. Well, it’s about time that Destiny act on our problem.

Everyday we try to call them to follow up their action for our problem and their generic answer was: “An engineer will be coming over today to check the problem.” And for eight days, we have been receiving that answer from them and so it is only about time that an engineer would really come to the office to check on the problem.

And in just thirty minutes they were able to fix it. Imagine, if they only sent an engineer on the first day that we reported the problem, then our connection might have been restored right away.

In fairness since they restored the connection, the Internet is much faster. Not like before when I can’t even open Yahoo mail since it will always timed out. Let’s see how long will their service last before we have any problems again.

Lifelock: Identity Protection

I was busy surfing the net last night and accidentally, I read an article through my friend’s blog about the very popular identity theft crime. The article talks about some stories of identity theft victims and as well as the disadvantages and the different harms that it bring to people.

I was really distracted by the article and I really can’t believe the catastrophe which indeed affects and ruins the lives and most especially, the personality of every individual who became a victim of the said crime. This can surely leave a negative impact to the victim’s image since their identity was being intruded by someone they don’t even know.

As what we can see, identity theft is one of the vast problems that should be given a lot more focus by the government. They should provide extra protection to avoid this kind of crime, and they should be the first one to guide every individual so they can be more prudent with their actions.

After reading the article, I realized that we, as individuals must also learn and manage to educate ourselves to be more aware with the crimes that may happen in our lives. We too, must take some preventions to protect our own identity and for us to avoid the invasion of our privacy.

As early as now, I even started searching for some certain options that can definitely help me to protect myself and I’m very lucky to discover the different benefits that life lock offers. I managed to review every detail and amazingly, I got the best assurance that I’ve always wanted.

To further understand the different advantages, I also happened to view some lifelock reviews by consumers which allowed me to deepen my knowledge about the facts that should be considered just like the lifelock promo code that we can actually avail.

Therefore, we should not take such things for granted. Let’s be ready for the possible things that may happen at any moment of our lives.

Lifelock Protection

All of the employees received a warning email today from our Management head about a certain email from a credit card company asking users to email back their credit card number together with the three digit verification code found at the back of the card. Our management head informed all the employees that this is a fake email and we should not reply to that email.

I remember I received a similar email before. At first you won’t find the email suspicious since the email address of the sender clearly states email@creditcardcompany.com. But then I know that we shouldn’t just give our credit card number together with the three digit verification code specially through email. And so I called the credit card company and found out that that email is a hoax.

More and more of these types of emails are circulating on the net. I was reading the site of life lock and more and more consumers are being victims of identity thieves and hackers. That’s one disadvantage of technology. Because of the high tech world that we live in, a lot of high tech tools can be used by hackers in stealing someone else identity.

I was reading the lifelock reviews by consumers and all of them enrolled at lifelock so they can be protected from identity theft. I guess living in a modern world really has it pros and cons. But at least there are tools available to protect us from identity theft.

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Today’s generation is continuously improving and changing, as fast as what we can expect. It has indeed a great impact in our society, country and even in our everyday lives. However, such predicaments are bound to happen because of the negative effects of our new generation.

The abyss widespread of crimes is very visible nowadays. Majority of them are murder, kidnapping, rape and identity theft. As what we can see, many people are engaged in such crimes and sometimes, even our higher officials are using their power to participate in such crimes and eventually abuse the rights of the people.

Furthermore, some surveys show that this so called identity theft is the most common crime that may imminent and will surely ruin the lives of the victims. The thieves may intrude the person’s identity and revel with the benefits that they can get. This illicit action is definitely despised by people because of the possible horrendous effects that it brings.

Nevertheless, we do have our prerogative to protect our rights and personal identity to such crimes like identity theft. Definitely, we have to be prudent to lessen the number of victims produced by the said crime and likewise, we can consider other preventions like what life lock offers.

Moreover, we now have different options to choose from which can help us to access our rights as a person. Needless to say, they even offer certain discounts just like in the lifelock promo code which can further assure us for the protection that we always need.

Let’s not waste our time and let’s start taking actions to prevent identity theft as well as the other crimes. With the help of lifelock.com, we can deeply fathom our knowledge about this and eventually, this can surely provide us some benefits that we can use in the near future.

Beware of YM Hackers, Get lifelock protection

I received a weird instant message today from my friend asking me if I can supply her 50 pieces of P500 worth of call cards. Since I have a cell phone store, I initially thought that the person I’m talking to really knows me since he or she knows that we sell call cards on our cell phone store. But then I have this gut instinct that the person I’m talking to really sounds different from how I know my friend. And I get really suspicious when the person I’m talking to told me to send via email the code for the 50 pieces call cards since she really need it right away.

So I contacted my friend and as it turns out, her identity has been stolen and the person I’m talking to is impersonating her and is using her yahoo id to get money from all the people under my friends contact list.

I never thought that identity theft is also rampant here in the Philippines. I read from lifelock.com that Identity theft is one of the most rampant cases in the US and so people from the US are enrolling in lifelock to get help on prevention and protection from identify theft.

I have a friend from the US who just used a lifelock promotion code to enroll to their system and according to her this really gave her peace of mind knowing that she is protected from the threat of identity theft.

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Be careful when sending information to Yahoo Messenger

Around 10 PM, I was chatting with my high school friend in YM about our kid’s pediatrician. It was our usual chat as we always talk about our kids. Our chat ended around 10:30 PM as she has to attend to her son.

At around 11 Pm, I received another message from her asking me what time it was. I answered, 11 PM and asked her where she was. She replied by saying she hit the wrong window. After that she immediately opened a conversation and asked me if I know a supplier of Globe prepaid cards as her friend from Milan will be ordering 50 pieces of P500 worth of load and Globe’s quotation is P800 per card. I might want to supply the prepaid cards if I know somebody so I can earn extra cash. She kept on saying she wanted to supply for her friend’s order but she has no money to finance it so she’s offering it to me instead. She said that I’ll be sending her via email the card number, pin, etc so she can send it to her friend in Milan. When I asked her how she can pay me, she just answered “I’ll take care of it.”

I’m already skeptical if I’m really talking to my real friend since she doesn’t talk to me that way. So I already have an inkling that somebody is impersonating my friend and is using her account. I told her I have to ask my brother because I don’t know the details so I’ll just let her know the next day since my brother is already sleeping. She said that I can just send her a text message and gave me a new number and her alibi is (which is really lame) she will be changing cell phone the next day (what a coincidence) so I can just text her sister. When I asked her what name to put for the new number (so I can verify if she really knows the name of my friend’s sisters) she just said I can just put it under her name also so I won’t get confused. And that I should delete her old number to avoid further confusion and just use the new number that she gave me.

I knew right then that this is a scam. And I confirmed it the very next day when I asked my friend if she sent me a message last night about prepaid cards.

Her account must have been hacked and the same thing happened with her friend in Singapore. Somebody asked for a cell phone load through YM.

It is really scary. So better be careful and don’t just trust somebody easily specially in the virtual world because we never can tell if we are talking to the right person or not. Good thing, I didn’t get easily fooled and I followed my gut instincts. Because if not, I could have easily been ripped out of P25, 000.

So just a reminder. Do be careful when dealing with individuals on the net.

Destiny Sucks

30 minutes before I get off from work, I was already finished with all my work. So while waiting for the clock to hit 4:30, I decided to blog hop. But boy, oh boy, the internet connection of our stand alone PC was so bad that it always timed out every time I access a site.

Destiny connection really sucks. Their connection is really worse and they always have down time. There was even a time that we have no connection for one week and every time we call their customer service, we are always put on hold for a couple of hours (yah, couple of hours) and then after hours and hours of waiting, we still won't be able to talk to somebody. Every time there is a problem, we have to go personally go to their office to report the problem. Otherwise, nothing will happen since their phone support doesn't seem to work.

And why do you ask do we stick with Destiny and not get another provider for our cable Internet? Well, they seem to monopolize the RCBC building since they are the only cable provider allowed in this building. Isn’t it great? Maybe that's the reason they have no drive to improve their service. We have no choice anyways but to get them.