NEW YORK (OCN) — After receiving numerous request for information on the Bronx Zoo from members and visitors of the New York Forum, its management, 411 New York, launched a dedicated online community towards the discussion of the Bronx Zoo on May 20, 2008.
In the six weeks that the site has been launched, it has received over 30 new registered members and its 50th member on July 1, 2008.
Today, the site has 86 members and over 2,900 posts.
NEW YORK (OCN) — Vishing is the criminal practice of using social engineering and Voice over IP (VoIP) to gain access to private personal and financial information from the public for the purpose of financial reward.
The term is a combination of “voice” and phishing. Vishing exploits the public’s trust in landline telephone services, which have traditionally terminated in physical locations which are known to the telephone company, and associated with a bill-payer.
The victim is often unaware that VoIP allows for caller ID spoofing, inexpensive, complex automated systems and anonymity for the bill-payer. Vishing is typically used to steal credit card numbers or other information used in identity theft schemes from individuals.
Also, vishing is very hard for legal authorities to monitor or trace. To protect yourself, consumers are advised to be highly suspicious when receiving messages directing them to call and provide credit card or bank numbers. Rather than provide any information, the consumer is advised to contact their bank or credit card company directly to verify the validity of the message.
Below is a message from EPPICard
Please be aware that there are current reports of phishing emails, phone text messages, and vishing phone calls, intended to obtain personal and/or card information. Phishing and vishing are types of scams designed to steal your personal information. We will never request your personal information such as social security number, card number or PIN through any of these methods. Please do not respond to requests like these. Being informed is your best defense. See the Protect Yourself link for ways of avoiding identity theft. If you believe your card account has been compromised, please call the number on the back of the card.
So what should you do? You can report it to IC3 and also contact us so we can post it here on the site as well to help others searching the net just as you have. Also if you are a card holder, you should contact Customer Service toll free at 1-800-656-1347 and visit their Protecting Yourself from Identity Theft and Phishing page.
NEW YORK (OCN) — Have you been caught up in the EPPICard phishing scam? Well, if you are reading this, it it possible you have received one of the following.
Each correspondence is designed to do one thing and that is steal. If you are not wise to thier scam, you will run the rish of having your finance stolen and even worse… your identity.
So what should you do? You can report it to IC3 and also contact us so we can post it here on the site as well to help others searching the net just as you have. Also if you are a card holder, you should contact Customer Service toll free at 1-800-656-1347 and visit their Protecting Yourself from Identity Theft and Phishing page.
CHINA (OCN) — Here is an email scam that we discovered. It ask one to click on a link on the Chinese site, beidestar.com, then the site forwards you to a site listed below.
Our Customer Services Helpdesk is open 24 Hours a day, 7 days a week.
with , Please Click Here to Contact EPPICard, Update Accounts customer service.
Inter EPPICard
The EPPICard Team
Inter EPPICard, Member FDIC. Equal Housing Lender
© 2008 EPPICard Financial Corporation, All rights reserved.
A division of the Banorte Financial Group.
Sites Link Forwards to:
http://www.naturalfamilyhome.com/eppicard/
http://www.etowahyouthsoccer.com/eppicard/
NEW JERSEY (OCN) – After having spent almost 60 days in New York’s Nassau University Medical Center where it was discovered that Officer Kenneth Baribault had spine, hip and head trauma, he was flown via a police helicopter on Tuesday to New Jersey’s Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation in West Orange where actor Christopher Reeve was treated after he was paralyzed from the shoulders down in a horseback-riding accident.
If you would like to make a donation to the family, you could do so by sending a check to:
Kenneth and Christopher Baribault Benevolent Fund
c/o Nassau PBA
89 East Jericho Turnpike.
Mineola,
New York 11501-3106
FRANCE (OCN) — There are reports that sexually explicit pictures of French Olympic swimmer Laure Manaudou have surfaced after her very public break-up with Italian swimmer Luca Marin.
Manaudou currently holds the world records for the 400 m freestyle (Short Course) and 200 m freestyle (Long Course).
She won the gold medal in the women’s 400 m freestyle at the 2004 Athens Olympics. It was France’s first ever gold medal in women’s swimming and the first swimming gold medal won by a French man or woman since Jean Boiteux’s triumph in the 400 m men’s freestyle event in Helsinki in 1952.
Manaudou won the silver medal in the women’s 800 m freestyle at the same Olympics. In that race, she had a quick start but was passed down the stretch by Ai Shibata from Japan. She took the bronze medal at the women’s 100 m backstroke, becoming only the second Frenchwoman to win three medals in a single Summer or Winter Olympic Games. The first was track and field athlete Micheline Ostermeyer in London in 1948.
She is currently tied for second (three medals altogether) on the all-time list of French multiple female Winter or Summer Olympic medal winners along with Micheline Ostermeyer, Marielle Goitschel, Pascale Trinquet-Hachin, Perrine Pelen, Anne Briand-Bouthiaux, Marie-José Pérec, Jeannie Longo-Ciprelli and Félicia Ballanger. The all-time leader is the fencer Laura Flessel-Colovic, who has five Olympic medals.
She won three gold medals at the 2004 European Swimming Championships in Madrid for the 100 m backstroke, 400 m freestyle, and the 4×100 m team medley.
On July 24, 2005 at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships in Montreal, Canada Manaudou won the women’s 400 m freestyle. Manaudou was under world record pace for the first half of the race. In the second half of the race, Manaudou was challenged by Shibata, her rival from the Olympics. Pundits were already predicting that Manaudou would eventually eclipse the world-record mark in the 400 m freestyle set by Janet Evans at the 1988 Summer Olympics. This would happen on May 12, 2006, as she broke Evans’s world record of 4:03.85 during the final of the French championship in Tours with the time of 4:03.03.
On August 6, 2006, on the final day of the 2006 European Swimming Championships in Budapest, she broke her own world record with a time of 4:02:13 in winning the 400 m freestyle title. She also won the 800 m freestyle (in European record time), 200 m individual medley and 100 m backstroke titles. In addition, she obtained the bronze medal in the 200 m freestyle, 4×200 m team freestyle and 4×100 m team medley. With her four titles, she equalled the record of the number of individual titles won in the same European swimming championships held by East Germany’s Ute Geweniger (1981) and Hungary’s Krisztina Egerszegi (1993).
She broke the 200 m freestyle world record at the World Swimming Championships in Melbourne in winning the final. She also won the 400 m freestyle event, obtained a silver for the 100 m backstroke and the 800 m freestyle, and a bronze for 4×200 m freestyle relay. She was leading the race in the 800 m final going into the last lap, but the American Kate Ziegler finally overtook her in the last metres to win by a margin of 28 cm. She was thus prevented from becoming the first female swimmer to win the 200 m, 400 m and 800 m freestyle titles at the same World Championships.
The Paris Match weekly magazine did a cover story of Manaudou in its April 5-11 issue.
From 2001-2007, Manaudou was coached by Philippe Lucas. She competed for the Melun-Dammarie club until 2006, when she moved to Le Canet en Roussillon.
On May 9, 2007, she announced at a press conference at the Canet en Roussillon swim club that she was leaving her coach Philippe Lucas to move to Italy and to train with the club Lapresse Nuoto, located in Turin. She added, however, that she would continue to swim for France.
On August 6 it was reported the World and Olympic titlist had been removed from her Italian-based team. The split is said to have been triggered by a fallout between Manaudou and LaPresse Nuoto club chief executive Paolo Penso. Penso is believed to have questioned Manaudou’s attitude to training (Reuters/L’Equipe).
She won 4 medals in the European Championships of 2007, even if the manifestation was characterized by the continuous fights between her and her Italian ex-boyfriend Luca Marin.
The same day, lewd pictures of Laure Manaudou started to propagate on the Internet. Luca Marin denied being the culprit.
FLORIDA (OCN) — Do you want to see teens on toilets? Well, head on down to Florida. There 30 teens with age ranging from 16 to 18 who all will try to stand on one toilet without falling of for 48 hours.
The act is to make awareness for HIV/Aids.
CALIFORNIA (OCN) — Do you get calls to your cell phone and a message isn’t left so you have no idea who called? Does the number call over and over and over and you would like to know who it belongs to? Well, you are in luck. Most cell phones has a call forward feature. All you have to do is go to the Call Forward Busy section and enter your home land line that has caller id.
Once you get the call on your cell from the number you need to check, hit the ignore button while it is ringing. The call will normally be transferred to your voicemail but since you activated the call forwarding while busy, the call will be sent to your land line that has caller id.
The caller id will then show the number along with the (business) name of the caller which will let you know if you should answer or not. If the caller use *67 to hide their number, once the call is transferred, they will hear a greeting telling them you do not accept call form callers who block their number and will have to call back unblocked or give up (unless its an automated call) calling after awhile.
NEW YORK (OCN) — Do you want free gas? Well, you are not the only one and if you reside in the State of New York, you may be able to get free gas at one gas station.
Reports are that a New York gas station owner is giving away free gas to vehicle owners who display Obama ‘08 Bumper Stickers on their vehicle when they pull up on Wednesday’s to buy gas.
CALIFORNIA (OCN) — A California housewife is set to give birth to ‘A. Cat.’ Doctors at USC University Hospital say that Christine and Andrew Cat are expected to have a baby sometime next week.
The couple requested that doctors keep their baby’s sex a secret from them until birth so for now, they are calling their unborn baby “Baby A” which is the initial for Alexis if their baby is a girl or Andrew if a boy.