The Cancer Society holds weekly line dancing sessions at the Petaling Jaya SS3 Community every Monday, Wednesday and Friday morning. Below is a video of a group of beginners learning line dancing, pretty for beginners may I say so:
The Instructor is Ivy. Here she is again leading the line dancers as they danced to the tune of a Hokkien song:
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Scam alert - mobile credit card reader
Below is a scam alert I received from an email forward:
Hi everyone,
I want to let you all know that (name deleted for privacy) and I have been the victims of credit card fraud this week and felt I should warn you all about the clever scam. It works like this:
Last Wednesday I had a phone call late morning from Express Couriers to ask if I was going to be home as he had a delivery for me. He said he would there in roughly an hour. He turned up with a beautiful basket of flowers and wine. I expressed my surprise as I wasn't expecting anything like this and said I was intrigued to know who was sending me such a lovely gift. He said he was only delivering the gift and the card was being sent separately (the card has never arrived). There was a consignment note with the gift.
He went on to explain that because the gift contained alcohol he has to charge the recipient $3.50 as proof that he has actually delivered to an adult, and not left it on a door step if the recipient is out, to be stolen or taken by children. This seemed logical and I offered to get the cash. He then said that the company required the payment to be by Eftpos so he's not handling cash and everything is properly accounted for. Frank was there and got his credit card and "John" swiped the
card on this small mobile machine that also had a small screen upon which Frank entered in his pin number. A receipt was printed out and given to us.
Between last Thursday and Monday $4,000 was withdrawn from our credit account at ATM machines in the north shore area. It appears a dummy credit card was made using the details in the machine and of course, they had Frank's pin number.
The Bank has stopped our cards and I've been to the Police this morning, where they confirmed that it is a definite scam and many households were hit during the first 3 days of October.
So PLEASE be wary of accepting a gift you're not expecting especially if the card is not with it. We've all received gifts like this and would never dream that it could be such a despicable act. Please also let other female friends and relatives know. Hopefully, these fraudsters have ceased this activity by now but you never know. I wanted to warn all my friends.
(Name deleted for privacy)
P.S. I don't think I'll ever drink the wine - I'd probably choke
on it!
Hi everyone,
I want to let you all know that (name deleted for privacy) and I have been the victims of credit card fraud this week and felt I should warn you all about the clever scam. It works like this:
Last Wednesday I had a phone call late morning from Express Couriers to ask if I was going to be home as he had a delivery for me. He said he would there in roughly an hour. He turned up with a beautiful basket of flowers and wine. I expressed my surprise as I wasn't expecting anything like this and said I was intrigued to know who was sending me such a lovely gift. He said he was only delivering the gift and the card was being sent separately (the card has never arrived). There was a consignment note with the gift.
He went on to explain that because the gift contained alcohol he has to charge the recipient $3.50 as proof that he has actually delivered to an adult, and not left it on a door step if the recipient is out, to be stolen or taken by children. This seemed logical and I offered to get the cash. He then said that the company required the payment to be by Eftpos so he's not handling cash and everything is properly accounted for. Frank was there and got his credit card and "John" swiped the
card on this small mobile machine that also had a small screen upon which Frank entered in his pin number. A receipt was printed out and given to us.
Between last Thursday and Monday $4,000 was withdrawn from our credit account at ATM machines in the north shore area. It appears a dummy credit card was made using the details in the machine and of course, they had Frank's pin number.
The Bank has stopped our cards and I've been to the Police this morning, where they confirmed that it is a definite scam and many households were hit during the first 3 days of October.
So PLEASE be wary of accepting a gift you're not expecting especially if the card is not with it. We've all received gifts like this and would never dream that it could be such a despicable act. Please also let other female friends and relatives know. Hopefully, these fraudsters have ceased this activity by now but you never know. I wanted to warn all my friends.
(Name deleted for privacy)
P.S. I don't think I'll ever drink the wine - I'd probably choke
on it!
Travel luggages Hartmann Vera Bradley
Anyone ever thought why those bags we use to put our clothing, toiletery, towel, etc. are called luggage. The word luggage comes from the root word lug which mean to drag, pull, carry laborously and that is exactly what you need to do when you travel, lug your stuff around. Definitely not a pleasant task. It is hard work, especially if you belong to the weaker sex. To facilitate the laborous lugging of heavy luggages, one can get a wheeled upright like the Hartmann Luggage which have wheels to allow the luggage to be effortlessly rolled aroung and an extensible handle to provide the grip to pull the luggage to wherever you desire.As the fairer sex are fashion conscious, plain utilitarian type of luggages are not likely to appeal to them. That is where designer luggages like the Vera Bradley luggage with the beautiful Vera Bradley print.
If one travel involves flying and are not carry a lot of things, it would be good to use Carry-On Luggage which one can carry into the airplane cabin. At disembarkation, you will not need to go to the luggage carousel and wait to get your luggage. Instead you will straight take your hand luggage and proceed to the custom and immigration section for clearance to exit.
Carry-on luggages are also useful to carry valuable stuff which you don't want to risk losing or which you may need to use in the cabin.
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