The Beanster Blog

I don't have a BPI Express account, so I knew this was a phishing email from the get go. When we look at it on a desktop browser we see the email address has been masked/tampered with When we hover (DO NOT CLICK) on the link we can see the URL is suspicious as well. DO NOT CLICK ON LINKS IN EMAIL. IT IS BETTER TO GO TO THE WEBSITE ON YOUR OWN AND NOT RELY ON LINKS BE WARY OF ATTACHMENTS, EVEN FROM PEOPLE YOU KNOW. TURN ON "TWO-FACTOR" AUTHENTICATION IF AVAILABLE. IF YOU FELL FOR A PHISHING EMAIL CONTACT YOUR BANK (OR THE WEBSITE) ASAP. The scary part is when viewed on mobile (in this case GMail for iOS) it looks ok but it is not, more and more people just do stuff on their mobile and this might fool some.

I got this email in my work inbox earlier today. Immediately, I was suspicious. Upon further inspection. We can see this is a bad email. The email sender + contents do not match. The linked file should be PDF but it's a JAR file (Java). The link is also suspicious (see URL). Avoid clicking links from email. 

Last 04-Sep I was lead to believe that adding 799PhP to my 350 CTU (Call and Text Unlimited) would give me unlimited data on both my phone & the broadband SIM. Well apparently I was mistaken. So in 5 days (my phone got re-connected on the 5th) I have already gone over my monthly credit limit which is 1500PhP (default for CTU 350). I thought I was on unlimited but was actually being charged the normal rate which is 10PHP per 30mins. Fraking hell. Right now my Sun is blocked for out going SMS & calls, waiting to get re-connected again and have requested an increase in credit limit. I would really piss me off that I was upsold to an non existent plan. I am not sure if the service rep at the business center I visited upsold me or misunderstood me. Or if I misunderstood him and was too eager to sign up when hearing unlimited and bundle in the same sentence. What’s clear is this I now have 2 SIM cards 1 with unlimited broadband but no SMS or calls; the other is my line which can do S...

I am helping a friend recover a stolen MacBook Pro. It was stolen last Friday (09-Jan-09) evening at Puregold Shaw Parking Lot in Manadaluyong City. There is a reward of PhP 25,000.00 for any help recovering the system. More info: 15.4in 4Gb RAM 320Gb HDD Superdrive 512VRAM S/N: W8845BW01GA If you have any info please contact me via comment or email. Thanks a lot!