Nigerian scam, Kenya version

Shoot enough bullet, you’ll hit at least one gullible person. Too bad I’m not gullible enough :P . Found this e-mail on Evolution inbox, I could immediately recognized it as Nigerian scam variant.

Copy-pasted as is, including spelling and grammar error

My dear,
Honestly I am glad that you honour my mail,how are you today? My name is Anita Kipkalya Kone,from Kenya 24 years old and a daughter of the former Kenyan road minister late Mr Kipkalya Kones who died on Tuesday 10th June 2008 along the Cessna 210 plane crash which was heading to Kericho in a remote area called Kajong’a, in western Kenya as You can read more on the crash below:

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/06/10/kenya.crash/index.html

Although this mail might comes to you as a surprise because we haven’t met,please consider it as a divine wish and accept me with a deep sense of humanity,I believe you will look into my condition and listen to my cry and consider me to be like your own sister or close friend. Ernestly i am writing this mail with tears and sorrow from my heart due to the condition i find myself after the passing away of my parent and nothwithstanding the whole tragic feel i was mallested and rejected without any cause simply because my mum had died earlier and we are polygamous family. Thereafter the funeral of my dad,my stepmother and my uncle with their african mentality conspired and sold off my father’s properties worth milions of dollar to an italian expertrate and shared the money among themselves living almost nothing for me.
One faithful morning as i tried to open my father’s briefcase,i found an important documents with which he had deposited some money in my name as the next of kin at the African development bank,Burkina Faso. I travelled down to Burkina Faso to withdraw some of the money but the Bank Director whom I met in person highlited me on my father’s instruction to the bank concerning the money and how it should be withdrawn that only on the account that i am married or i should present to the bank an honest and worthy trustee who will assist me in reclaiming the fund and transfer it into his account for an investment as i finish up my education. In my search for a reliable person i have found you a man i can count on. I believe that you will not betray my trust on you but rather take me as your own sister or close friend because right now i am suffering terrible here in Burkina faso in the refugee camp as i have no body to rescue me from this strange situation in a foreign land.
I have chosen to contact you after my prayers and i was convinced that you will be the true one to rescue me from this trouble,I have the money confirmed in the bank $7.2 million in their records as unclaimed bill in my father account and i have the death certifictae and the deposit certificate of the fund stating as proof of my geneuity. I shall compensate you with 30% of the whole money in as much as you could help me make the transfer of this money into your account successfully. I wait upon your positive response showing your interest and ability to carry out this transaction and in the light of the above i shall appreciate your urgent message indicating your willingness to help me with all your mind to achieve this successfully. Thanks and God bless you as i look forward to seeing your reply.

Anita Kipkalya

Tempted to made a reply, just to have some fun :D .

Tell me your secrets and ask me your questions

Other than Viva La Vida, The Scientist is one of Coldplay’s songs that I really like :) .

Come up to meet you, tell you I’m sorry
You don’t know how lovely you are
I had to find you, tell you I need you
Tell you I set you apart

Tell me your secrets and ask me your questions
Oh, let’s go back to the start
Running in circles, coming up tails
Heads on a science apart

Nobody said it was easy
It’s such a shame for us to part
Nobody said it was easy
No one ever said it would be this hard
Oh, take me back to the start

I was just guessing at numbers and figures
Pulling the puzzles apart
Questions of science, science and progress
Do not speak as loud as my heart

But tell me you love me, come back and haunt me
Oh and I rush to the start
Running in circles, chasing our tails
Coming back as we are

Nobody said it was easy
Oh, it’s such a shame for us to part
Nobody said it was easy
No one ever said it would be so hard
I’m going back to the start

Visit Pangkalpinang?

Seiring dengan program Visit Babel Archi 2010, pemkot Pangkalpinang konon meluncurkan program serupa dengan label Visit Pangkalpinang 2010. Saya sendiri tidak tahu bagaimana persisnya program Visit Pangkalpinang 2010, sudah cari-cari di mbah Google tidak ada informasinya.

Ya jelas saja tidak muncul informasinya di Google, kalau website resmi pemkot Pangkalpinang tewas dengan diam-diam kok.

Masih tak ada perubahan sejak Juni 2009

Justru website tetangganya, Tampuk Pinang Pura, yang rajin diperbaharui (walaupun tetap saja saya tidak menemukan info soal Visit Pangkalpinang 2010).

Saya jadi bertanya-tanya, Visit Pangkalpinang 2010 ini serius atau tidak sih? Kenapa promosinya cuma di seputaran lokal saja (Bangka-Belitung)? Dan website resmi pemkot Pangkalpinang itu sebenarnya pangkalpinang.go.id atau tampukpinang.info ?

Phew, things went back to normal

Not long after my previous post, I’ve completely locked out of this blog. Even with Firefox on Windows box I keep getting “Connection reset while the page loading” or something like that. Couldn’t access the CPanel. No ping reply. Traceroute lost track on Seattle datacenter.

I’ve asked my sister at Yogyakarta and several colleagues at Bukit Baru (Pangkalpinang), Bandung & Denpasar to check if they can access this blog. And the answers were the same, this blog can be accessed well.

It really puzzled me. Access to other website were just fine, it was only this blog that I couldn’t accessed. I went around town, trying to find if I could acces this blog from internet cafe. Well yes there’s an internet cafe where I can access this blog, found it on the 17th internet cafe I visited. I was beginning to think there was some sort of conspiracy against me :P

And this morning, suddenly I can access this blog normally again. Weird. Oh well, guess this kind of things happens.

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BlankOn incompatibility?

This morning I was accessing this blog with Opera 10 on BlankOn Nanggar. Everything went fine till about noon when suddenly my blog displayed only as text. No image, no CSS whatsoever (save for the Facebook badge, which rendered fine). And to make matters worse, I couldn’t even access the admin page.

It’s quite strange, as the blog is accessible using Firefox on Windows XP (else there’s no way I could write this post). Wondered what went wrong…

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