The House Of Puroy Enterprises

Last Saturday, after attending iBlog5, my friend Zorlone was kind enough to drop me off in Monumento so I can conveniently ride the bus at the Victory Liner terminal.

As I went towards the cashier to get my ticket, I noticed a sign on the cashier’s window which says something like “paying for insurance is voluntary” and I remembered that Victory Liner charge their passengers for insurance when you pay for your fare at the terminal.

Since I haven’t been travelling for quite a long time, I asked the cashier how much is the fare up to Dau, where I would get off (the bus I’m riding will be going to Dagupan), to which she answered P122.00, so I gave her P125.

She gave me my P3 change and two tickets… wait! Two tickets?!
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The picture above is a screenshot of the page where I was led when I tried to visit my daughter Angel’s friendster profile.

How low can some people get? Who the hell owns the Globe cellphone number 09156401677?
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Last month, I received this in my e-mail…

Business account at Liberty Reserve
Dear Member,

We have reason to believe that your account was accessed by a third party. Because protecting the security of your account is our primary concern, we have limited access to sensitive Liberty Reserve account features. We understand that this may be an inconvenience but please understand that this temporary limitation is for your protection. Read the rest of this entry »

I could have jumped for joy with this e-mail:

Dear Sir/Madam,

We wish to congratulate you over your email success in our computer Balloting .This is a Millennium Scientific Computer Games in which email addresses were used. All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from over 100,000 company and 50,000,000 individual email addresses from all over the world. It is a promotional program aimed at encouraging internet users; therefore you do not need to buy ticket to enter for it.
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I was surprised when I received this e-mail last week

Your Yahoo! ID is: an*************
(ID partially hidden for your privacy)

The password for your Yahoo! ID was recently changed. You don’t need to do anything, this message is simply a notification to protect the security of your account. Your new password may take a few moments to become active. If it doesn’t work on your first try, please try it again later.

- Didn’t change your password?
1. Someone changed your password on November 15, 2008 at 04:14pm PST. Please sign in to your Yahoo! account to confirm you still have access after the change.
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Do they honestly believe I would fall for this?

Last week, I received the following email from Bank Of America (allegedly):

Dear Valued Customer :

We recently have determined that different computers have logged in your Bank of America Online Banking account, and multiple password failures were present before the logons. We now need you to re-confirm your account information to us. If this is not completed by July 2, 2008, we will be forced to suspend your account indefinitely, as it may have been used for fraudulent purposes. We thank you for your cooperation in this manner. In order to confirm your Online Bank records, we may require some specific information from you.

To restore your account, please Sign in to Online Banking.
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Yes! You’re on the right blog, this is not my Sugar Coated World blog. What else can you call a company who steals your children’s future?! They promised to provide for your child’s college education need then just fold up without considering those whose future they destroyed. Or was it really a scam that took so many years in the making?!
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Last Monday, May 19, we were at the National Bookstore in SM-Clark to buy some school supplies for this coming school year. Angel, my 10-year old daughter made sure to bring the Safeguard soap boxes to avail of discounts at the store - as the advertisement in the TV show. When we were paying our purchases which amount to over a hundred pesos, my daughter brought out the boxes. But the cashier told us that there is a minimum of P500 cash purchases before the discounts can be claimed.

Quite absurd and I must say, totally ridiculous because the TV commercial didn’t mention anything about the minimum purchase required. Seems to be that this the new trend in the promos now. Not divulging all the necessary information so customers won’t be able to avail of it. A way by companies to technically shortchanged the consumers.

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