Sathya's Tumbles

The email starts off with a not about money laundering and then asks the user to update the banking details failing which “you left us with no choice but to take strict actions against you. Which can bring you to court, we advise you to act as soon as possible so that you do not run into any inconveniences.”

Good way to scare the user. Looking at the email, I knew the email was very wrong, so I examined the element of the link to ICICI Bank. And bingo -

A link to a site which is totally not related to ICICI bank, at all. Just to satiate my curiosity, went ahead and clicked the link.

Remember: Any bank will never, ever ask you to “verify” your password, all by itself. Here we have the page asking for your user id, password, Debit card number and transaction password. Curious to see what lies ahead, I went ahead and populated with dummy values

No validations whatsoever (expected). Clicking on Login pages takes me to another page, where it asks for ALL my personal details.

Just reported the site for phishing over at http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/

If any of you get such a mail, use Gmail’s report spam feature so that it gets flagged as spam. And remember, Remember: Any bank will never, ever ask you to “verify” or enter confidential details such as the Debit card PIN code, CVV number et al.

Be safe.

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at&t sim on a once at&t locked iPhone :)

Sun, 15 Aug 2010 21:36:40 +0530

via qTweeter

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My apartment

Sun, 15 Aug 2010 06:13:21 +0530

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AT&T Ringtone jingle & dance

Thu, 12 Aug 2010 09:03:31 +0530

So, I’ve been given a Nokia 2330c as my workphone, which is comes with the AT&T ringtone - and I really like the tone!

Here’s a short clip:

Bonus: Funny “music video” :p

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USB charging ports on Qatar airways seats

Thu, 12 Aug 2010 07:15:53 +0530

Don’t know if these can deliver the power required for iPad though.

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Flight number QRNaN

Thu, 12 Aug 2010 07:15:39 +0530

Inflight entertainment app couldn’t find the flight number, apparently.

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Boingo, your iPhone app sucks. Please give me a decent web based app.

Thu, 12 Aug 2010 07:15:35 +0530

WTH does “this is not a Test user account” mean and what am I supposed
to do with it? What sandbox environment?

See and download the full gallery on posterous

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Inflight entertainment

Thu, 12 Aug 2010 07:15:35 +0530

United Airlines Express from Washington to Austin had no audio/video
monitors and the incompetent security guys at Chennai Int’l Airport
destroyed my SoundMagic PL-11 earphones meaning I couldn’t listen to
any songs from my iPhone. So, this became my inflight entertainment.
Scotch on the rocks.

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Another thing I found while packing.

Sun, 08 Aug 2010 19:08:55 +0530

Gifted to me by Saroj Ojha, our Oracle & PL/SQL / Oracle Forms trainer
during training.

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I never said thanks to @ashwinsid for gifting me this

Sun, 08 Aug 2010 19:08:12 +0530

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