Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Lottery Emails

Some people are around us ready to cheat and swallow our hard earned money. We can come across them in buses, trains and in roads. Some of them are illiterates. Some of them are doing this due to poverty or unemployment. Heard of people doing this on larger scale that too highly educated people are involved in this ? If not, then you are very lucky that you have not come across such people.

In internet we have lot of people doing this kind of activity. One among them is Lottery in internet.

Lottery email means you will get email in the name of big companies like Yahoo or MSN or Microsoft stating that your email has been selected from 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 email addresses and request you to send your personal information to claim first prize which valued several billions.

These type of emails usually come at the time of month end or year end or on special occasions.

I have received plenty of emails like this stating that I have won first prize. If I calculate all the prize monies due to me, then I will be richer than Bill Gates.

Usually I ignore all these emails. In the middle, I used to reply them to take all the monies due to me on my behalf.

Till today, I have been receiving these type of emails. I append few emails for your reference.

On 15.02.2009

Dear Winner,

Your email address emerged winner in our online lottery
program.You have
won the sum of FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND EURO(500,000 £),All
the email
addresses legible for this award were subscribers from
Yahoo,Hotmail and
other email service providers worldwide. You are to
contact our
remittance agent with your winning number below

Winning Number: EPWL 11,17,18,26,31 /5 6

Contact:Barrister Martin Jones
FIDUCIARY AGENT, Payment and Release order
Email: martin_chamber22@live.com
Tel: +44-70457-76864

FILL WITH DETAILS
================================

[FULL NAME OF WINNER]..........................
[RESIDENT ADDRESS]...................
[COUNTRY/ REGION]....................
[DATE OF BIRTH]...../...../......... [SEX].......
[OCCUPATION]..............[TEL/FAX]................
[CURRENT EMAIL].....................

CONGRATULATIONS from me and all members of staff of Euro-PW Lottery.

Regards,
Jossy Choy.

On 16.0.2009

Yahoo/Msn Lottery Incorporation
Baley House, Har ,Road Sutton,
Greater London SM1 4te
United Kingdom.

AWARD NOTIFICATION 2009

This is to inform you that you have won a prize
money of Five hundred
thousand, Great Britain Pound Sterlings
(£500,000.00) for the month of
FEBUARY 2009 Lottery promotion which is
organized by YAHOO/MSN LOTTERY
INC & WINDOWS LIVE.

You are to contact the events manager on or
before your date of Claim, Winners Shall be paid in accordance with
his/her Settlement Centre.

These are your identification numbers:
Batch number.....................YM 09102XN
Reff number.......................YM35447XN
Winning number...................YM09788

How ever you will have to fill and submit this
form to the events manager for verification & direction on how you can
claim your winning
fund.

1. Full name..............
2. Contact Address........
3. Age....................
4. Telephone Number.......
5. Marital Status.........
6. Sex....................
7. Next Of Kin............
8. Zip Code...............
9. Occupation.............
10. Company................
11.State:.................
12.Country................
13.Nationality............
14. Your Reference and Batch number at the
top of this mail:

(CONTACT EVENTS MANAGER)
Name:Moore Markland
Email:event_managers_moore@hotmail.com
Telephone Number:+44 70359 05693/+4470359 40400

Thank you and Accept my hearty
congratulations once again!

Yours faithfully,
Mrs.Gloria Bent
(Lottery Coordinator).

CONGRATULATION LUCKY WINNER

If you receive these type of emails first thing you have to do is to delete the same.

In Tambaram (Chennai, India) one fellow believed this kind of email and contact them for prize money. They asked him to send Rs.60,000/- ( 1$ = Rs.55 approx) for processing and cheque delivery purposes.

He sent the entire amount immediately. He did not receive any money from them.
He waited for a reasonable time and tried to contact them over phone.
He did not get any response. He contacted one of his friends in England and requested him to visit the address they have given at the time of collecting the money. His friend informed him that the address was wrong.

That fellow could not imagine these type of fraud and committed suicide last week.

This news I read from the local newspaper.

So, I decided to post a blog on these type of frauds.

Beware.

Monday, February 16, 2009

MY EXPERIMENTS WITH ADSENSE - 4 (All rejection emails from Google)

Today, I have received the same old story from Google:

Do you know what is unacceptable site contents (as far as this blog is concered) here ? If yes, post your command. I do not know the meaning of unacceptable site contents.

Here, I have posted all the rejection emails received from Google.

16.02.2009 Rejection email from Google

Hello K,

Thank you for your interest in Google AdSense. Unfortunately, after
reviewing your application, we're unable to accept you into Google AdSense
at this time.

We did not approve your application for the reasons listed below.

Issues:

- Unacceptable site content

---------------------

Further detail:

Unacceptable site content: In order to participate in Google AdSense,
publishers' websites and application information must satisfy the
following guidelines:

*Your site must have been active for at least 6 months before you apply
for AdSense.
*You must provide accurate personal information with your application that
matches the information on your page.
*Your website must contain substantial, original content.
*Your site must comply with Google AdSense program policies:
https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=48182 which
include Google's webmaster quality guidelines:
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35769#quality.


If your site satisfies the above criteria in the future, please resubmit
your application and we'll review it as soon as possible.

13.02.2009 Rejection Email as follows:

Hello K,

Thank you for your interest in Google AdSense. Unfortunately, after
reviewing your application, we're unable to accept you into Google AdSense
at this time.

We did not approve your application for the reasons listed below.

Issues:

- Postal address incorrect or not provided
- Unacceptable site content

---------------------

Further detail:

Postal address incorrect or not provided: We've found that the account
information provided on your application is incomplete or incorrect. All
applications must include a valid and complete address where you can
receive mail. It is important that this information is entered correctly
since payments will be issued to the payee name and checks will be mailed
to the address as listed on your application. For more details on entering
your address, please visit
https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=47333.

Unacceptable site content: In order to participate in Google AdSense,
publishers' websites and application information must satisfy the
following guidelines:

*Your site must have been active for at least 6 months before you apply
for AdSense.
*You must provide accurate personal information with your application that
matches the information on your page.
*Your website must contain substantial, original content.
*Your site must comply with Google AdSense program policies:
https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=48182 which
include Google's webmaster quality guidelines:
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35769#quality.


If your site satisfies the above criteria in the future, please resubmit
your application and we'll review it as soon as possible.

On 12.02.2009 Rejection email:

Hello K,

Thank you for your interest in Google AdSense. Unfortunately, after
reviewing your application, we're unable to accept you into Google AdSense
at this time.

We did not approve your application for the reasons listed below.

Issues:

- Unacceptable site content

---------------------

Further detail:

Unacceptable site content: In order to participate in Google AdSense,
publishers' websites and application information must satisfy the
following guidelines:

*Your site must have been active for at least 6 months before you apply
for AdSense.
*You must provide accurate personal information with your application that
matches the information on your page.
*Your website must contain substantial, original content.
*Your site must comply with Google AdSense program policies:
https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=48182 which
include Google's webmaster quality guidelines:
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35769#quality.


If your site satisfies the above criteria in the future, please resubmit
your application and we'll review it as soon as possible.

09.02.2009 Rejection Email:

Hello K KALYANARAMAN,

Thank you for your interest in Google AdSense. Unfortunately, after
reviewing your application, we're unable to accept you into Google
AdSense at this time.

We did not approve your application for the reasons listed below.

Issues:

- Unsupported language

---------------------

Further detail:

Unsupported Language: We've found that the majority of your site's
content is in a language we do not currently support. Right now, we're
only able to offer language support and ad targeting for the languages
listed here:
https://www.google.com/support/adsense/bin/answer.py?answer=9727&hl=en_US .
If you manage or own another site in one of our supported languages,
feel free to resubmit your application as described below.

While we look forward to supporting your language, we don't yet have a
date as to when AdSense will be available for you. If you'd like to
stay up-to-date with the languages we support, please feel free to
check back with us at the above link.

Please also be aware that if your website language is in an AdSense for
Search only supported language (Indonesian or Vietnamese), you must
submit a new application using a different email address, at
https://www.google.com/adsense?hl=en_US . In the "Website Language"
menu, please select the correct primary language of your site. This
will assist us in our review of your application.

On 09.02.2009 another rejection email:

Hello K,

Thank you for your interest in Google AdSense. Unfortunately, after
reviewing your application, we're unable to accept you into Google AdSense
at this time.

We did not approve your application for the reasons listed below.

Issues:

- Unacceptable site content

---------------------

Further detail:

Unacceptable site content: In order to participate in Google AdSense,
publishers' websites and application information must satisfy the
following guidelines:

*Your site must have been active for at least 6 months before you apply
for AdSense.
*You must provide accurate personal information with your application that
matches the information on your page.
*Your website must contain substantial, original content.
*Your site must comply with Google AdSense program policies:
https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=48182 which
include Google's webmaster quality guidelines:
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35769#quality.


If your site satisfies the above criteria in the future, please resubmit
your application and we'll review it as soon as possible.

On 10.01.2009 first email from Google

Hello,

Thank you for your interest in using AdSense on blogger.com.
We look forward to reviewing your application so you can start displaying relevant
Google ads through blogger.com and on
your own webpages. In order to complete the sign-up process, please fill out the
form linked below to submit your application for review:

NOTE: This link will expire soon! Please confirm your email address and fill
out the application as soon as you can. If clicking the link doesn't work,
please try manually copying and pasting it into your web browser.

https://www.google.com/adsense/c?u=31721062&s=86&k=0x06003452

You'll then be directed to complete the AdSense application by filling out your
contact information. This will submit your application to us for review, and
we'll follow up with you by email within 2-3 days. Once your application is
approved, we'll begin serving Google ads to your pages within minutes. If you
have any issues completing the application, please visit our Help Center at
https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/topic.py?topic=8422.

If you have any questions about the AdSense features on the site on which you
registered, please contact that site directly.

Sincerely,
The Google AdSense Team

This message was sent from a notification-only email address that does not
accept incoming email. Please do not reply to this message.

Friday, February 13, 2009

MY EXPERIMENTS WITH ADSENSE - 3

Today Google team sent yet another rejection email stating that there is a mismatch in my address. My email id does not have any address (email id which should be used to log in to this blog) which sounds logical.

Also they have appended the old theory of blog should be active for at least 6 months and said my blog has unauthorized content.

Since there is no unauthorized content in my blog, I think they include this purposefully when there is another reason (like 6 months old theory) exists for rejection. So that, if anybody has these types of contents, they will remove it immediately to have approval.

I have updated my residential address in my email id and re-submitted for approval.

Eventhough, my blog is one month old, I have submitted for approval. Because, in some rejection emails they did not mention about this.

Let us see again.

Thursday, February 12, 2009

MY EXPERIMENTS WITH ADSENSE - 2

As expected, I got the rejection email today.

Same old reason for the rejection. 1) Website should be 6 months old.
2) Unauthorized content. 3) Should have original content.

Except gadgets, and My Lord Sri Venkatachalapathy photo, everything is original and my writings only.

Now, I deleted gadgets and Photo of my Lord in this blog and re-submitted this blog
for Adsense approval.

Now my blog has original content as expected by Google. Only thing is age of my blog factor. I am very much confused. Out of 4 rejection emails I received for this blog, they have mentioned this age factor only in 2 emails and left out in other 2 emails.

The only reason they now have is this 6 months old theory (according to me). If they reject again quoting this as reason, I will meet them in June 2009 because in June 2009 only my blog will complete 6 months.




What they will do ? Let us see.

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

MY EXPERIMENTS WITH ADSENSE

LIke many, I wanted to try Google Adsense. Most of the websites which deal with internet business do not forget to mention about this Adsense. Each website describes this Adsense as the best one in internet. They also mention that the easiest thing on the earth is getting Adsense account. They say if you apply you will get it immediately as if Google is having no other work except to give you an Adsense account. They put one condition that you must own a website or blog. I read from few websites that Google likes blogs. Immediately I have decided to have one blog and this is the one now you are reading. Before creating this blog, I had to create one gmail id which is kkr.raman@gmail.com.

OK. After writing my so called article on temples in and around Kumbakonam and temples in and around Trichy, I applied for Adsense. In the meantime, I learned to add some gadgets to my blog. I have also added a post about a herbal medicine I take daily and put some statistical information about that herb. This is happened just one month ago. My blog has frequent visitor daily i.e. me only. After one week, I received one rejection letter from Google stating that my website/blog should be 6 months old and they have found that my blog has unauthorized & copied (?) content. Probably the information about a herb might have given this wrong idea about my blog.

I deleted that post and re-sent for Adsense approval. I also tried my native language (which is Tamil which is also available in Blogspot html editor). I wrote 10 line post in my native language. I did not get rejection letter for more than 7 days. It surprised me. Suddenly on 31.01.2009, my favorite comedian star Mr.Nagesh passed away and I put a post on him with youtube videos. These youtube videos brought the attention of google team and they started writing rejection letter and sent the same to me stating that my blog contains unauthorised content with the same old 6 month condition. They put so many links about the TOS etc. how the blog or website should look like for getting approval.


I did not have any patience to read all the links mentioned in the email sent by them. I wanted to try again. I deleted post on Mr.Nagesh and also associated youtube videos. In the meantime, I joined linkreferral (I should write a blog about this) which brought many visitors to my blog. Myself along with others from all over the world visited my blog daily. Since I have reasonable traffic, I re-sent my blog for approval. Now they had different story to reject. They have rejected stating that my blog has unauthorized language. To my surprise, they said that many of my posts are in that unauthorized language only. They have forgotten that 6 month condition.

My Questions :

1) If a language is not supported by Google, then why should they include in html editor of blogspot ?
2) If 6 month old condition must be complied, then the Adsense gadget should not be available to webmasters at the time of creation of blog. It should be available only after 6 months. Isn't ?
3) How did the so called Google web page crawler find that my most of the posts were in unsupported language when all the posts are in English. (except one 10 line post in my native language).

Now I deleted my native language post and re-sent for approval. I think Google Team
should find different reason to reject. Let us see what happens.

Sunday, February 8, 2009

MY EXPERIMENTS WITH HOME BUSINESS-Part 1

If you search in Google for 'Home business' you will find lacs website address which are ready to make you millionaire. Since, I do not want to miss the opportunity, I tried some of them, but till today, I did not get the opportunity to become 'Millionaire'.

In 2003, I joined in email reading programs. I have joined email reading programs which would give 5 cents, 10 cents, 20 cents for reading emails. All were different websites. Daily my hobby was to open those sites and read email and see my account balance as on date. On website, the amount was flooded and I was very happy that I would receive the cheque. In the meantime, I was asked to become member of other websites which were ready to pay 1 $, 5$ etc. for reading emails. Thinking that they were also genuine, I became member of those websites also. One fine morning, 5 cents 10 cents 20 cents websites increased the minimum payout limit. I decided to read emails to achieve the minimum payout target.

When this process was going on, I received information that the 5 cents, 10 cents, 20 cents websites were sold to some x (but with assurance that my account, credit balance will also be transfered to new owners of the websites.). When I opened my account, I saw that the balances were intact. But surprised to note that the minimum credit paylimit was increased by the new boss).

But the new owner sent emails to me that there are websites which were ready to pay 100 $, 500$ to read email.

Who will pay such huge amount for reading single email ?. This opened my third eye and I decided that I would not get any money for reading emails. There fore I stopped visiting these scam websites.

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

SO CALLED HELP LINE/TOLL FREE

Now a days, many companies have this concept of 24 hr help line or customer support or toll free
etc. Are they serve the real purpose ? They simply watch the computer and answer your query.
What are all the information updated (?) are only informed by them.

For any service, query you are requested to call one number. If you try this number, you are asked to jump 7 mountains, 7 seas etc. to reach the so called customer care executive. Pleasant lady voice will instruct you to press this number, press that number etc. In some cases, it is very difficult to hear the instructions i.e will not be audible.

If you have land line, some times you may have to press # button to proceed the numbers which they asked you to press.

I struggled a lot when I have to press these numbers in my mobile phone. Finally I succeeded
when I am started pressing the numbers from the key pad instead of touch screen virtual key pad.

Most of the times, that executive will be busy (naturally) and you are forced to listen music for a while till that executive comes to you. If that executive is still busy, lady voice again will tell you that you are valued customer and feel sorry for making you to wait, but asked you to wait again.
This process will continue till the executive attends you.

If you are very patient, one voice with dkfdjkfjdfj here, may I help you will be heard. At first instance, you cannot get the name of the executive. Your first duty is to catch the name of that executive. You will ask so many questions, but in most of the cases, you will not get convincing answer. They quote condition no.this and that and ask you to refer the terms and conditions which the service company supplied to you. To read that terms and conditions, you have to have maximizing glass otherwise, you cannot read even single letter. I wonder, where they get such printing heads ?

Or, you will convince them by quoting the mistake done by the company. They will simply accept that mistake and say that will be rectified immediately. In most of the cases, that immediately will never happen.

You have to contact them again and again. Each time, you contact, you will talk to different persons and you have to narrate the whole story.

Whenever you contact these executives, first you ask whether they are recording this conservation. If not, ask for the name of the executive (2 or 3 times you may have to ask)
and note down the name and time of conversation. If you talk from your mobile, (if you have
provision for recording the conversation) try to record the conversation for future use.

Before completing the conversation, you should ask the name of the higher ups, their email ids
phone numbers etc. In most of the cases, they will not give you all. You should succeed in getting these information.

If your problem is not solved, you can make their life miserable by sending continuous emails, phone calls to higher ups etc.

If your problem is still not solved and you consider that your problem is genuine, you warn them that you are going to press to report the problem.

This kind of black-mail will work out in most of the cases.