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Comment on WordPress blogs targeted scam – beware of the adv.zip plugin! by SLee

SLee — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:57:22 +0000

I emailed LaCoste to let them know what was going on and to double-check what we already knew to be true about the legitimacy of these emails. I got a reply from LaCoste confirming that these people are completely illegitimate.

Comment on WordPress blogs targeted scam – beware of the adv.zip plugin! by moonpixel

moonpixel — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 05:17:01 +0000

Thanks a lot for posting this! It does help many people to identify this as a scam. Currently it seems to be running under Valentin Lopez / Gera Agency …
I have written some more details here:
http://moonpixel.com/banner-scam-with-adv-plugin-for-wordpress-ads-from-paris-agency/

Comment on WordPress blogs targeted scam – beware of the adv.zip plugin! by Ken Ng

Ken Ng — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 13:57:36 +0000

Glad this article helped in its own little way.

Comment on WordPress blogs targeted scam – beware of the adv.zip plugin! by Karen Krueger

Karen Krueger — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:09:20 +0000

I was suspicious of the email I got asking to advertise on my corvette site from Matthieu and the NanaAgency So I passed it by my husband. He didn’t see anything suspicious, so I wrote back with a price…and I got the same email saying yes the price was good… then to download a plugin because they don’t want to use Javascript. Well it’s been my experience, html works just fine, so there shouldn’t be a problem… But when they told me to login and download a plugin…my spider hairs stood up. I wrote back asking if they were looking for payment from me…and the response was no… just download the plugin. That’s where I stopped. I didn’t even want to look at the plugin let alone download it or install it.

It is my advice, if you don’t know who you are dealing with, don’t click anything, don’t download, or install anything! Just my two cents.

And THANK YOU for your article…. I was looking for something to substantiate my hunch. Sometimes plugins can have a call back home, or some type of back door to your site… it might not be obvious…I’m not a coder or programmer, just someone who has been burned in the past.

Take care,
KKrueger

Comment on Fixing the iPhone Bluetooth Internet Tethering with OS X by Crispian

Crispian — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:57:28 +0000

Again this isn’t working with me. iPhone 4 running iOS5 and a MBP running 10.7.2.
I have removed and re-paired and renewed license but still no joy.
There is an IP address visible and the internet access is showing as ‘green’ in the network pane, but no data is flowing….?
Is your fix above only if there is no IP being issued?

Comment on WordPress blogs targeted scam – beware of the adv.zip plugin! by Mana Punk » (WARNING) WordPress Advertising Scam ADV.ZIP

Mana Punk » (WARNING) WordPress Advertising Scam ADV.ZIP — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 13:52:34 +0000

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Comment on WordPress blogs targeted scam – beware of the adv.zip plugin! by Jeremy T.

Jeremy T. — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 13:33:08 +0000

Add the following details to this list for this scam:
Sacha Charles @ Lana Agency (www.lanaagency.com)

Comment on WordPress blogs targeted scam – beware of the adv.zip plugin! by tc

tc — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:05:19 +0000

I was just about to be scammed. Pasting it here to save some others. Here is the email I got.

I represent Nana Agency. At the moment we are preparing an advertising campaign for Lacoste Company (it is a French company producing clothes, footwear, perfumery etc.) We already have designed banners for the campaign, they are the following sizes: 160×600, 240×400, 300×250, 336×280, 468×60, 728×90.
What can be your price for one banner (banner should appear at ALL pages of your site) of abovementioned sizes (please specify the place for the banner – top, bottom, left, right)? Please mention a normal link for banner, without javascript code and set prices in US dollars per month.

Best regards,

Matthieu Colin.
site: http://www.nanaagency.com
e-mail: mcolin@nanaagency.com
phone: + (0)9 78 62 57 86

Comment on Fixing the iPhone Bluetooth Internet Tethering with OS X by Dmitri

Dmitri — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 22:57:37 +0000

I’m having the same problem. This fix isn’t doing it for me.

I have a late 2008 aluminum MacBook with a completely fresh install of Lion 10.7.2. The 3GS is running latest iOS 5.0.1 (although it’s not clean, so this may be the issue… I’ve been upgrading it version by version since iOS 3).

I’ve tried removing and re-adding the Bluetooth PAN, but no luck. The iPhone pairs, I see a blue bar saying “Personal Hotspot: 1 Connection” and I’ve done renew DHCP lease, it has an IP, but there is no connection on the MacBook.

I’ve tried it with my dad’s newer iPhone 4S, and it works fine. So it’s just my old 3GS at fault here. I bet if I restore it to factory settings it will work fine, but I wish I didn’t have to do that…

Strangely enough, my 3GS bluetooth tethering works fine on my Windows machines, but not my MacBook.

Comment on Fixing the ORA-12519: TNS:no appropriate service handler found error by Yanko

Yanko — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 21:10:08 +0000

Thanks buddy! This helped me a lot!