Wednesday, April 30, 2014

AppsGoneMad offers 7 Mac apps for FREE

AppsGoneMad offers 6 Mac Apps for FREE for signing up to their newsletter. And you may get one more Mac app for FREE just for tweeting.
  • ColorStrokes helps with all your color needs when it comes to photography! Adjust colors and even create black and white pictures with a colorful object or two using the Color Splash feature.
  • Rails for mac. Love trains? Love games? Then Rails is for you! Build tracks between stations and control the train traffic out in the rail yard. It’s a tough one that is surley guaranteed to keep you on your toes.
  • Graphic Styles - A generous collection of high-quality designs to help you create unique Pages or Keynote content. An excellent way to make your documents stand out from all the others.
  • ClipBuddy takes the Mac OS X Clipboard to a whole new level by remembering saving all of your clippings, making it easy to copy and paste multiple items quickly.
  • Vidiary is a video journaling app. Today, everyone’s documenting their lives. Journals and social media history. But what about documenting your life in videos?
  • Ondesoft Screencapture makes the screen grabbing experience more powerful and user friendly. Quickly take screenshots and edit and annotate them.
  • Concealer (valued at $19.99) is a data security app by BeLight Software that protects all of your sensitive files and data by keeping them under wraps. Create repositories that hide and password protect files, store credit card and other sensitive info, and also create password protected text files, all on your Mac. And today, it’s only costing you a tweet and follow!

Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Scam e-mail: "Hearing of your case in Court SN0990", "Notice of appearance in court No9812"

I got many scam e-mails with the subjects like "Hearing of your case in Court SN0990", "Notice of appearance in court No9812" from help7561@islamiclawyers.com, reference6317@bushlewislawyers.com, answer806@petlawyers.com,....
From: "Notice to appear" answer806@petlawyers.com
To: vasya@pupkin.ru
April 1, 1:49
1 file

Notice to appear,

Hereby you are notified that you have been scheduled
to appear for your hearing that will take place
in the court of Tampa in May 22, 2014 at 11:45 am.

You are kindly asked to prepare and bring
the documents relating to the case to court on the specified date.

The copy of the court notice is attached to this letter,
please, download and read it thoroughly.
Note: The case may be heard by the
judge in your absence if you do not come.

Yours truly,
PARRISH HARTMAN
Clerk to the Court.
The scammer's e-mail come with in attachment like "Notice_to_Appear_SN0990.zip" . It is the attachment that makes you understand that this e-mail is not a legit one. Luckily we have a ZIP archive, so it can be safely saved onto your disk. But I do not recommend to open such attachments or save them onto your disk anyway. Many newer e-mail services allow you to save attachments to cloud services. Save the attachment to the cloud, then create a public link for it. Then navigate to a free virus checking service Virus Total and scan the attachment by providing a web link to it.



In my case it was easy to see that the e-mail was from scammers. See how many antiviruses detected a virus in the file:
Antivirus Result Update
AVG PSW.Generic12.AIAG 20140403
Ad-Aware Trojan.GenericKD.1627712 20140403
Agnitum Backdoor.Androm!OL49BmuAz4I 20140403
AntiVir TR/Kuluoz.A.71 20140403
Antiy-AVL Worm/Win32.AutoRun 20140403
Avast Win32:Trojan-gen 20140403
Baidu-International Backdoor.Win32.Androm.AS 20140403
BitDefender Trojan.GenericKD.1627712 20140403
Bkav W32.DownloadZortobF.Trojan 20140403
Commtouch W32/Trojan.NXPN-0725 20140403
Comodo UnclassifiedMalware 20140403
DrWeb BackDoor.Kuluoz.4 20140403
ESET-NOD32 Win32/TrojanDownloader.Zortob.B 20140403
Emsisoft Trojan.GenericKD.1627712 (B) 20140403
F-Prot W32/Trojan3.HYE 20140403
F-Secure Trojan.GenericKD.1627712 20140403
Fortinet W32/Lockscreen.LOA!tr 20140403
GData Trojan.GenericKD.1627712 20140403
Ikarus Trojan-Spy.Zbot 20140403
Kaspersky Backdoor.Win32.Androm.drfl 20140403
Malwarebytes Trojan.Inject 20140403
McAfee PWS-Zbot-FATG!D185A21BF355 20140403
McAfee-GW-Edition PWS-Zbot-FATG!D185A21BF355 20140403
MicroWorld-eScan Trojan.GenericKD.1627712 20140403
Microsoft TrojanDownloader:Win32/Kuluoz.D 20140403
Norman Kryptik.CDKX 20140403
Panda Generic Malware 20140403
Qihoo-360 HEUR/Malware.QVM20.Gen 20140403
Rising PE:Malware.FakeDOC@CV!1.9C3C 20140403
Sophos Mal/DrodZp-A 20140403
Symantec Trojan.Fakeavlock 20140403
TrendMicro BKDR_KULUOZ.JYC 20140403
TrendMicro-HouseCall TROJ_GEN.F47V0331 20140403
VIPRE Trojan.Win32.Generic!BT 20140403
ViRobot Trojan.Win32.Zbot.135680.K 20140403
nProtect Trojan.GenericKD.1627712 20140403

Saturday, April 19, 2014

No more additional insurance for Shipito customers from Russia

I started skipping insurance at Shipito parcel forwarder, because I didn't want to pay an extra 1% if I consolidated a cell phone, some electronics with lithium battery, a watch or jewelry. When I was sending something expensive I was preferring to use a courier service. And when I was sending something cheap, I didn't want to pay extra bucks.

From April 10, 2014 Shipito is no longer requiring customers from Russia to pay this extra 1% for insurance. Normal insurance rates apply.

Wednesday, April 9, 2014

How to get a virtual US Mastercard debit card if you are not a resident of the USA (US Unlocked / NxPay)

Shipito, an American parcel forwarder, started cooperation with US Unlocked to give you the opportunity of having your own virtual US debit Mastercard card with US billing address. Shipito is not the only company offering such a service via US Unlocked. The latter company has been working with many partners including American parcel forwarding companies. You can also get a card directly from US Unlocked, but some partners provide your a $5 discount when you sign up via them (so your setup fee will be $10 instead of $15).

How to get a virtual US Visa debit card if you are not a resident of the USA (US Unlocked / NXPay)


Non US residents can now get the US Unlocked card and pay in the American online shops requiring a USA debit or credit card.

Please note the the US Unlocked card is NOT accepted by Paypal as well as many subscriptions web-sites (like online music services). Some online shops can reject transactions if you use a virtual USA address provided by a parcel forwarder. But many online US shops requiring a USA billing address will accept your transaction.

Note that some American online shops accept transactions that use a virtual USA address provided by your parcel forwarder as a billing address. And some shops accept your transactions if you use your real billing address, but change the country to the USA, choose any state and a ZIP code belonging to this state.

The US Unlocked Card is a virtual prepaid Mastercard debit card with US billing address. As it is a virtual card you will not have the actual plastic in your hands, but you will use the number, expiration date and billing address provided to you for online payments. As it is a pre-paid debit card, you can only spend the amount of money that you have put onto the card. If an online shop or service asks you to enter your credit card information, you can use your US Unlocked debit card. The card can be reloaded, i.e. you can add funds to it anytime.

To apply for a US Unlocked Card you will need to set up your account, providing some personal details such as your name, home address and date of birth. In the registration process, you will be also automatically offered to use your Shipito suite number and address. The next step is to make a card load payment which will include a one-time application fee. Your card will be issued approximately 2-4 business days after they have received your payment (provided you have passed the address and ID check). Then you will be able to use your virtual debit card on most US websites.

NxPay is the platform to which the US Unlocked Card belongs. NxPay is the authorized issuer of virtual pre-pard Mastercard cards. When applying for a US Unlocked Card, an NxPay account is created for you. Through Manage Account in US Unlocked Card page you are able to manage your NxPay account.

Current fees associated with the US Unlocked virtual debit card:
Set-up fee (one-time) $15.00
Transaction fee charged by NXpay per load. $0.30
Load Fee (upfront) $3 and 3% or $4 and 4%*
POS (point of sale) fee domestic $0.50
POS (point of sale) fee international $0.75
Declined transaction fee domestic $0.75
Declined transaction fee international $0.75
Monthly maintenance fee** $3.50
Balance Transfer/Closure fee $11.50
Replacement Card $5.00

* Varies per payment method. Payment methods offered vary per country. Price differs due to increased cost of payment processing and fraud control measurements. Payments are done in your local currency. US Unlocked's payment processors apply a daily wholesale rate plus a fee of 2% to 5%, depending on the currency used. These currency exchange rates are competitive with the ones applied by commercial banks and currency exchange companies.

** A monthly maintenance fee of $3.50 will be assessed to your US Unlocked Card. This fee will be assessed to your US Unlocked Card as long as there are funds remaining on your US Unlocked Card. When the card is loaded after 1-3 months of zero balance the card is incurred with the missed maintenance fee payments. If not loaded after 4 months the card closes, see term 17. A maximum of 3 months of missed monthly maintenance fees will be charged when a new card is issued to replace the closed card.

*** US Unlocked used to provide a Mastercard debit card, but in November 2013 they started replacing all Mastercard cards with VISA cards.

Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Effective way to list your eBay items

Selling bolts & nuts via eBay? This is how your eBay listing can look like
Most items of the seller Babe Not Included look like this.

Special request from Shipito parcel forwarder: extra bubble wrap and security tape for $2 each

Shipito parcel forwarder has finally offered extra bubble wrap and security tape as special requests for consolidated packages.

Special request from Shipito parcel forwarder: extra bubble wrap and security tape for $2 each

All special requests that Shipito currently offers:

Visual check that content is not damagedFREE-
Remove Invoice$1Remove store invoices from the package(s)
Extra Bubble Wrap$2Put extra bubble wrap or packaging material to protect the items.
Extra Tape$2Put extra tape on the package seams
Security Tape $2Put security tape on the package, so it's evident if the package has been opened after shipping
Other Request$5Write your own request

Here is the extra bubble wrap used for protecting my package:

Shipito parcel forwarder (package forwarder): Extra security tape

Saturday, April 5, 2014

Gilt coupon (promo code): FREE international shipping in April 2014

Gilt private shopping club offers FREE international shipping


Coupon (promo code): GILT
Coupon code for Canada: MYGILT

Offer ends April 7 at 3 a.m. ET extended to April 14th, 3 a.m. ET.


More conditions:

Receive free US standard shipping or free flat rate shipping to international addresses ("Free Shipping"), excluding taxes, and any additional delivery charges, on purchases made between April 3, 2014 at 9:00pm ET and April 7, 2014 3:00am ET. Free Shipping automatically applies to orders shipping to domestic addresses. Enter promo code MYGILT to receive Free Shipping on orders shipping to Canadian addresses. Enter promo code GILT to receive Free Shipping on orders shipping to non-Canadian international addresses (maximum $19.95 discount) Valid only on gilt.com. May be subject to product restrictions or exclusions, does not include any additional delivery or supplemental shipping charges above US standard shipping or international flat rate shipping, and customer will pay the difference between these and any alternative chosen methods. Free Shipping may be used only once in a single transaction and may not be redeemed for a future purchase if the transaction is cancelled or item(s) are returned. Free Shipping cannot be combined with other offers. Free Shipping is non-transferable and may only be used by the intended recipient. Free Shipping offer may be suspended or terminated at any time. Free Shipping is valid on Gilt iPhone App, iPad App, Android App and Mobile Web. iPhone App and iPad App must be up to date as of January 20, 2012 and Android App must be up to date as of February 13, 2012 for Free Shipping to be applied to order.

Receive free US standard shipping or free flat rate shipping to international addresses ("Free Shipping"), excluding taxes, and any additional delivery charges, on purchases made between April 10, 2014 at 9:00pm ET and April 14, 2014 3:00am ET. Free Shipping automatically applies to orders shipping to domestic addresses. Enter promo code MYGILT to receive Free Shipping on orders shipping to Canadian addresses. Enter promo code GILT to receive Free Shipping on orders shipping to non-Canadian international addresses (maximum $19.95 discount). Valid only on gilt.com. May be subject to product restrictions or exclusions, does not include any additional delivery or supplemental shipping charges above US standard shipping or international flat rate shipping, and customer will pay the difference between these and any alternative chosen methods. Free Shipping may be used only once in a single transaction and may not be redeemed for a future purchase if the transaction is cancelled or item(s) are returned. Free Shipping cannot be combined with other offers. Free Shipping is non-transferable and may only be used by the intended recipient. Free Shipping offer may be suspended or terminated at any time. Free Shipping is valid on Gilt iPhone App, iPad App, Android App and Mobile Web. iPhone App and iPad App must be up to date as of January 20, 2012 and Android App must be up to date as of February 13, 2012 for Free Shipping to be applied to order.