Twitter Updates for 26-01-2011

• @davidwearing Most people don't have knowledge of the processes of national & global economies though, & the article suggests you do. in reply to davidwearing 00:41:43, 2011-01-26
• @davidwearing If such a classically bad situation, there must be accepted "correct" ways to handle it on an individual *and* national level. in reply to davidwearing 00:42:30, 2011-01-26
• @davidwearing Or at least mitigate problems caused by it if campaigns are ignored, or occurs in the time until policy actually changes. in reply to davidwearing 00:46:11, 2011-01-26
• Need to know: Can a 6wire unipolar stepper be run as a 4wire bipolar by ignoring the common wires? Or would magnets polarity cancel out? 02:05:45, 2011-01-26
• Same situ in the UK; so much pressure to get a university degree, so many have…(YouTube http://youtu.be/FeNlPO6Q7yo?a) 13:22:05, 2011-01-26
• @davidwearing Still presumes the gov will actually listen. I think they're too arrogant to changes their minds, which leaves what options? in reply to davidwearing 13:58:50, 2011-01-26
• @davidwearing It concerns me to hear former soldiers talk of leaving the UK because they only see civil war ahead here. in reply to davidwearing 14:01:09, 2011-01-26
• @MitchBenn Guess you know you've done bad when The Sun is looking at you and saying, "Yeah, that was a bit much." 14:25:17, 2011-01-26
• @tajasel Only if you make smiley-faces with the pickled ginger. in reply to tajasel 14:32:23, 2011-01-26
• @SushiNom Don't know what's happening there, but expect it can be countered with two words of advice; "Fuck 'em." 15:25:39, 2011-01-26
• @SushiNom If you've upset a friend, sure, but I'm guessing this is the result of another random screaming internet face. Learn not to care. 15:26:57, 2011-01-26
• @SushiNom Remember, they're idiots. http://www.sci-fi-fox.com/offsitelinked/rant_temp/Sean%20Kennedy-That%20Little%20Voice.mp3 15:34:30, 2011-01-26
• @SushiNom *hugs* in reply to SushiNom 16:26:36, 2011-01-26
• I know a lot of folk. I can't have a party for my bday, so there will be drinks. But I can't exactly invite everyone I know. 17:13:32, 2011-01-26
• I have to keep it casual, or I'm going to make myself sick with worry people think I actually don't want them there. 17:14:11, 2011-01-26
• Would have been nice to have a bday party, but it's not an option now. Would have been first one in.. 22 years? More? 17:15:52, 2011-01-26
• Wanted to break these habits. But it's not, and it makes circumstances feel personal. 17:16:38, 2011-01-26
• @Utlah Mind if I RT that? in reply to Utlah 17:33:24, 2011-01-26
• RT @Utlah Wow, the quality of some fan-films continues to amaze me, this time it's "Fallout: Nuka Break": http://bit.ly/fgy68m 17:39:37, 2011-01-26
• Audio-Captcha's sound like you're having a drug-induced nightmare. D: 18:26:51, 2011-01-26
• Hell yes <3 This old satellite dish motor has nice helical steel gears in the output. :3 19:21:35, 2011-01-26
• Drive gears are shitty plastic planetary ones, but no worse than a cheap cordless drill. May make a big servo. 19:34:47, 2011-01-26
• Next time someone says "Remember that movie about the bus that couldn't stop?" answer, "You mean.. The Big Bus?" #classics #airplane #bus 19:52:03, 2011-01-26
• @Moshiicake Sorry to hear it, but your tweet made me remember a wonderful movie. I owe you a cuppa. in reply to Moshiicake 19:53:10, 2011-01-26
• The Big Bus came out in 1976, Speed in 1994. It was about a nuclear-powered bus going from New York to Denver. Non-stop. 19:55:00, 2011-01-26
• Speed was only set in LA and had a bomb. 19:55:47, 2011-01-26
• @stephenfry If you see Bruce Willis down there, run while you still can! in reply to stephenfry 20:09:04, 2011-01-26
• @Moshiicake You made me remember "The Big Bus". :3 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074205/ in reply to Moshiicake 20:28:29, 2011-01-26
• Nice when a tool you made 10 years ago finally comes in useful. 22:27:58, 2011-01-26
• @meekoblue About as many as a degree in psychology would, with how many of those degrees there are flooding the market. in reply to meekoblue 22:43:01, 2011-01-26
• Worm drive from the dish position motor is 70:1. 23:08:32, 2011-01-26

Mirrored from The blog-hub for Peter "Sci" Turpin.

Paranoia and the bank

So you know how in December someone stole my card details and got about £100 out of my account? I was a bit paranoid because even after it was sorted my sisters bank details were similarly nicked.

A bit past 1pm today I got a phonecall from someone saying they were the Santander fraud department and needed to double-check some things about the other fraudulent transactions made on the same day.

Santander NEVER call you directly. You get automated messages for you to call them. So I told the lady I’d call back. When I got through to Santander’s security department, they had no record of the call.

Plus it sounded like an Indian call-centre. A GOOD Indian call-centre, but an Indian call-centre nonetheless.

So the people who stole my card details also have my phone number, and my feeling that I or this household are being targeted in some way is growing.

The actual banks advice? Keep a close eye on things, let them know if anything odd happens. Helpful stuff.

Of course I’ve seen enough information about con-games I can’t help but wonder if I’m playing into their hands. What if they’re expecting you to call the bank back yourself and have tapped your phone, or re-routed the call to a fake centre, so you give the details as the security questions thinking you’ve outwitted them?

I don’t think that happened, but it’s a possibility. After-all we live in a city where fake BT vans van steal a few hundred miles of copper cable overnight and simply vanish.

Santander seem to be getting sloppy though. When asking to confirm the last digits of my card number the operator actually suggested them to me while I was rummaging in my wallet for it, which is probably the sole reason I haven’t quite calmed down again yet.  That and that they asked for the confirmation number on the back, which I’m sure they’ve asked for before but still seemed out of the ordinary.

The internet banking was also suffering a glitch at the time too, where it wasn’t able to show current balance. That fixed within a minute or two, but still, the whole thing’s got me on-edge again.

Mirrored from The blog-hub for Peter "Sci" Turpin.