07:45 - Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2007
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good morning every buddy!!!! just b4 i went to work yesterday, wells fargo got they shit together, and all was right in the universe. they aint saying what the dealie was, but lissen up, ok? if you are a wells fargo customer, pay attention!! there are phishers out there trying to take advantage of this snafu!!!
Wells Fargo & Co. may have a new problem, following its widespread computer crash earlier this week: online scammers.Over the past 24 hours there has been a growing amount of chatter in the underground criminal community about ways to take advantage of the outage, according to Joel Helgeson, an independent computer security consultant based in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
"They've talked about spooling up their engines and networks to take full advantage of this," said Helgeson, who monitors criminal discussion forums as part of his security practice. "Everybody is sitting there waiting for a bank to screw up. It's like following behind an armored car, waiting for them to make a big mistake, and Wells Fargo just made a big one."
Many Wells Fargo banking operations including online and ATM (automated teller machine) services were knocked offline Sunday in an outage that continued to affect users Tuesday.
As of Tuesday afternoon, the bank was declaring systems operational, but warning that online customers would not see their up-to-date balances on the company's Web site until Wednesday. Customers complained that transactions that had occurred after Friday were not reflected in their online bank accounts.
The anticipated spike in Wells Fargo phishing had not occurred as of Tuesday afternoon. The Anti-Phishing Working Group, an organization that tracks online fraudsters, had counted 43 live Wells Fargo phishing sites, said Dave Jevans, the group's chairman. That's a tiny fraction of the 36,000 sites tracked by the group. "I would call that a usual background noise level," he said of the Wells Fargo activity.
However, online criminals are quick to tailor their scams to any newsworthy event, and Jevens expects the Wells Fargo scams to pop up soon. "Give them a day," he added "I would be surprised if it didn't happen in this case."
According to Helgeson, criminals are planning to send out e-mails that acknowledge the computer problems and ask victims to log on to phony Wells Fargo sites in order to validate their user information.
Wells Fargo has offered few details on the crash, which was unusual in both its scope and duration. However the company did say that its problems were serious enough that the company had to restore from backup. "Using our back-up facilities, we restored Internet banking service in about one hour and 40 minutes," the company said in a statement, released Tuesday. "We thank the hundreds of team members in our technology group for working so hard to resolve this problem."
Other banking services such as point-of sales transactions, loan processing and wire transfers were also affected by the outage.
Wells Fargo could not be reached immediately for comment.
wells fargo will NEVER send emails to have you "log in and verify information" !!! dont fall for it!!!!
thank you for all the comments for yesterday, i appreciate it, you guys are great!
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seems that bip the drip in in the hot soup, again!! doyle called me yesterday morning, and he tole me that he talked to marion the director about my situation, and marion sez, WHAT? hes SUPPOSED TO BE THE MANAGER AT IVY HOUSE!!!! the shit is gonna hit the fan!!!! but, he cant put me in as manager now, the dirty bastids already hired someone. marion will make it right for me. im getting a bonus, and the NEXT MANAGER OPENING, IM GONNA GET IT!!! doyle sez bip is gonna get it, too! i called bip the drip yesterday just to ask a stupid question, and he sounded hi strung. he KNOWS he screwed up. see, he and the HR guy are BUTT BUDDIES!! nothing wrong with that in itself, but, (hehehee) we surmise that bip told john not to hire me. marion sez changes are a coming soon, but (heheheee) we've heard that before. we shall see........
the rio is ALL PAID OFF!!! YEEEEEE!!! no more yearly leases at the rio, doyle sez. now its month to month tenant at will. now that the building is paid off, the rio grande hotel death watch has commenced!! doyle projects that the building will close at the beginning of the year!!
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i slept in today, as i dont have to go in to work til noon, and work til 7 pm. even zipper didnt wake me up, my bladder did!! hahahaha!!! but zip was right there, snuggling in as he does!!!
when i started this, i seen that i have 250 posts here in blogger! this is post 251!! dang!! i just been here in blogger since january 1st!!
i feel like im missing something, or forgetting something, and its driving me nuts! doncha hate when that happens?
its pogo wednesday!!!! i will have time to start the new pogo challenges today!!!
heres a couple of wierd news tibits, i havent done this inna while!!!
Kyle Krichbaum, 12, of Adrian, Mich., has had an obsession with vacuum cleaners since infancy, when he was mesmerized by the whirring, said his mother, and for years, he says, he has enjoyed vacuuming so much that he does the house up to five times a day, with one of the 165 new and used vacuum cleaners in his collection. Said a former teacher, "It's not that he didn't like recess. He just preferred to stay inside vacuuming." Older sister Michelle, interviewed for a July CBS News profile of Kyle, spoke for all of us: "He's constantly vacuuming. I'm just like 'why, why, why, why, why, why?' I don't understand."Government in Action!
In April, Britain's Office of Work and Pensions acknowledged to the Daily Mail that the multiple wives of polygamous husbands who are legally in the country routinely draw dependents' unemployment allowances from the government (even though polygamy itself is illegal in the U.K.). A single person receives the equivalent of about $120 a week, and a married couple about $180, with each additional wife about $60.)Miles Nurse and Jennifer Plomt, condominium owners in Vancouver, British Columbia, learned in July that they would have to cohabit with as many as 80 bats that had infested their unit for the following six weeks because the B.C. Wildlife Act prevents disturbing the critters during their mating season, which would end in late August. At press time for a July Vancouver Sun story, the couple had found one bat in bed with them, another hanging upside down from a bathroom door frame and five in the ceiling over a kitchen pantry.
It's Good to Be a British Prisoner: Faced with overcrowding, the government announced earlier this year that 25,500 inmates would be early-released, and since that would take away their "free" housing for the remainder of their sentences, awarded each released person "room and board" expenses to live on until their terms expired.
Britain's Prison Service announced in May that inmate obesity was such a problem that it had hired "dozens" of fitness trainers to serve at 25 U.K. jails. Trainers will provide individualized exercise routines and "holistic, alternative therap(ies)," according to a report in The Sun.
A prosecutor in Chelsea, Vt., refused in June to pursue police officers' charges against Jayna Hutchinson, 33, that she had committed a crime because she made faces at a police dog and "stared" at him.
Community Policing: One traditional opportunity for police in the United States to mediate problems occurs when they facilitate the exchange of driver information (identification and insurance) in traffic accidents. Similarly, in Braunschweig, Germany, in June, police were called to a legal brothel to mediate a prostitute-client dispute following the rupture of a condom during their encounter. Police were successful in encouraging the prostitute, and the reluctant customer, to exchange information, in case of future health problems.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
well, thats all the crap i have for now, i will be back tomorrow to post more crap!!! hehehheheee!!! all is swell in the offices of who did it and ran, ink!!!
hava swell day, and go out and play!!! yay!!!
