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More spam for a scam

Alan Liefting

11 June 2015
This scam arrived in my inbox:
(spam links removed)
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Hi My name is Prof. Dr. Richard Goran,

"Gentlemen, finance me and help me improve this and all the planet 
will afford energy".

Here’s what 71 year old Dustin Grey from Atlanta says:
"I’ve never built anything in my entire life... yet this was so 
easy, I assembled it with my grandkids. Now we get almost free 
electricity 24/7".

That will reduce your electricity bill starting today by at least 
80% ... now is the perfect time.

Here's how to get "Power Innovator Device":
I'll let you have Power Innovator Vidoes PLUS a surprise bonus, 
PLUS the List of tools and supplies

----------->Here is Your Video
(If the above doesn't work,click not spam for you to see the video.)
 
Your Success,
E-Saver Inventor
```
I followed the link to the video and was redirected to a website with a sort of “but wait there’s more”, hard sell, scammy video. I wasted about 20 minutes of my life watching that damned video but I am always curious about this sort of rubbish. If you are interested in watching the video cut and paste http://nicolatesla.info/PowerIP/ into your browser.

The email was obviously a scam and I did not need my ISP to mark it as such in the subject line. When there are outrageously bold claims and a request for money it is obvious that it is a scam.

The number of scams relating to technology has prompted me a start a list of these sort of scams.
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Fossil fuels

Alan Liefting

14 May 2015

Here at Ecotech Services we pride ourselves in limiting the use of non-renewable resources. The big one of course is fossil fuels, particularly petroleum, so when I got a spam email inviting me to invest in a petroleum project I had to laugh.

Attn: Dear Friend,

My name is Nour El Deen Nabil a staff in the National petroleum 
agency of Sao Tome and Principe but originally from Arab Republic 
of Egypt; I secured a crude oil lifting license from the National 
Petroleum Agency (STP-NPA) where I work.

Nour, I don’t know you from a bar of soap and if I did, and if you are an actual person, you would not be my friend. I don’t befriend spammers and scammers.

Due to my position in the Petroleum Agency, I cannot handle this 
project alone; you have all the qualities needed for this project.

Flattery will get you nowhere with me. And so how do you know that I have all of the qualities that you need? What about money? Do you think I have a few hundred million to throw at this project?

All we need do to are these:

1. We have to officially register a company with the Sao Tome and 
Principe Petroleum Agency, which shall serve as our lifting company 
as to enable us make use of this lifting license.

2. I will ensure that all lifting procedures are in place and buyers
 readily available.

3. You stand in as the license operator for all the lifting and 
sales transactions,

If accepted we can start working on this project, I know oil 
business may not be your line of business but I will handle and 
manage this project and also make sure that I guide you on what to 
do at any given time.

Oh, that is all we need to do? That makes it all ok then. And yes , you are right. The oil business is not my line of business so I will need your help.

Don't forget to furnish me with your private phone and fax numbers 
for easier communication amongst us.

Ok. I will get that off immediately.

Thank you my Dear Friend.

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White van speaker scam

Alan Liefting

8 October 2014

E-waste is a really big problem at the best of times but it becomes a bigger problem because of some of the absolute rubbish that passes itself off as electronics equipment. This rubbish being sold would have really poor performance with respect to comparable units, the reliability is probably low, the look and feel of it would be cheap and nasty, and the buyer would readily throw it out.

One of the sources of this cheap electronics over in Australia and in the UK is through what’s known as the white van speaker scam. How it works is that crafty, slimy, unethical “salesmen” do the hard sell out of white vans in places such as supermarket carparks.

Dave Jones over at the EEVblog (which is where I learnt about the scam) has a video about a really poor quality audio amplifier that would have been sold in one of these scams:

EEVblog #671 – White Van Speaker Scam Teardown

Dave exposes the global White Van Speaker Scam and tears down a Marc Vincent Surround Sound Receiver, one of the items sold in Australia through this scam. How crap is it?, watch and find out!

I have yet to hear of this sort of thing happening here in New Zealand and if it has not happened yet lets hope that it never will.

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Nanotechnology based battery extenders

Ecotech Services administration

7 June 2014

Ecotech Services was alerted to a product on the market that claims to extend the life of batteries used in common electronic items. This particular one is the AkkuFresh Nanotech Battery Life Foil. The benefits described in the sales pitch for a special deal seems vaguely plausible but highly questionable:

“AkkuFresh® absorbs all source of energy inclouding (sic) electromagnetic field (EMF) energy and generate negative ions far infrared waves and biorezonance. Negative ions will penetrate into the battery and create higher frequency on witch the crystals resonate and burst. This cleaning process causes the battery to regain its initial capacity, and enhance the flow of negative ions. It also let’s the Lithium ions resonate, through which an increase in voltage is obtained.”

The poor grammar and the spelling mistake is an indication that it may be a dubious product, but the phrase “generate negative ions far infrared waves ” and the mention of the pseudoscience of “biorezonance” strongly suggests that it is. A battery pack usually consists of opaque plastic which is of course impervious to infrared and to negative ions (at the operating temperature that batteries use.)

AkkuFresh claims to have had their product tested by Kent Holdings Ltd. “in co-operation with US and European universities, independent testing laboratories and battery technology centers”. As well as testing and promoting AkkuFresh Kent Holding also promotes the ionXtra® intelligent water. This removes any credibility the company may have on the grounds of vested interests and rational thought.

A similar product called BatMax is on the market with the same dubious marketing.

There are many ways of improving battery life, such as storage temperature, charging regimes, battery type selection criteria, and technological advances. Products for improving battery that are promoted using pseudoscience and buzzwords are of no value.

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