Category Archives: Politics & Random Musings

Ian Kowalski (ian_ski) 165 The Briars WS9 8AQ

Another eBay miscreant to add the the Google pool here. The policy of eBay to not allow sellers to leave negative feedback for buyers is ill conceived and gives buyers licence to take the piss as you will see.

Today’s internet lunatic for exposure on the Real Deal is Ian Kowalski, 165 The Briars, Aldridge, Walsall,  West Midlands.  WS9 8AQ. His eBay handle is “ian_ski” – he sells head map pins on eBay. Well I guess somebody must.

He recently bought a 99p item on eBay. It was a domestic appliance part.… Click here to continue reading this article

Bouncing Billy Barker William Scruton

This topic is about William (Bill) Scruton from Gorton in Manchester. Otherwise known as “Bouncing Billy Barker” and occasionally as “Springheel Jack”.

This page is to complement the information page here: www.Billy Barker.co.uk

I have secured some space on this blog in order that people can submit their comments and memories. Since the Billy Barker Information Page went up a couple of years ago, I have received quite a few e-mails from people who remembered him. I have received other emails and photos by e-mail from many people related to Billy; many of whom were researching their family tree and just found out they were related to him by chance.… Click here to continue reading this article

Lee Johnson 4 Fox St Hollinwood Oldham OL8 3ST leeseat123

Another eBay miscreant to place on the public record here. This guy bids on stuff on eBay and then doesn’t pay.  He doesn’t respond to e-mails nor does he make any contact at all. This inconveniences sellers because they become liable for final value fees on the goods they have supposedly sold to this joker.

In order to get those fees refunded, they must go through a whole rigmarole with eBay and wait two weeks.

eBay prevents sellers from leaving negative feedback for buyers – this means normal people remain blissfully unaware of such people.… Click here to continue reading this article

Russian Wife – For Better or Worse

In some cases worse. That is when a man marries the wrong woman, or sometimes when a guy is clueless. The reasons can vary; some people just get it wrong. Read this tale and see what you think:

I feel the need to tell my story. It’s the story of my marriage to a Russian lady. A marriage I thought was perfect which has descended into a futile exercise of tolerance on my part of a woman so pig headed, manipulative and selfish I can’t believe.

It’s a bit of a read but in order to get an idea of from where we started to where we are today I thought it best to include our full history.

… Click here to continue reading this article

Scammed or Dumped in Odessa?

This tale is indicative of how some men imagine they have been scammed by a “Russian Dating Scammer” – but in fact they have merely been dumped and/or were hoping to date hopelessly out of their league. Here is Richey’s tale………

I just got back from Odessa where I was to meet a woman i have been talking to for over a year. The last night she told me she wanted me to come back and we would keep in touch over emails. I have been home over a month now and still havent heard from her.

… Click here to continue reading this article

Russian Ukrainian Adventures Newsletter – November 2009

Russian Ukrainian Adventures Newsletter – November 2009.

I want to take a moment to welcome again our many new members that we have gained recently. Some have arrived from other forums, some from US radio shows, some from Yahoo groups and others from the Russian Bride Guide. It’s good to have so many new members. Please do not be shy about jumping into any conversations on the forum that pique your interest.

So What’s Happening?

As the festive season approaches, it seems many of our members are choosing to spend the season in the FSU with family or their ladies.… Click here to continue reading this article

E235 Natamycin in Argentinian Wine

Product warning – Argentinian Wines

There have been reports in the German wine press that a substance called Natamycin has been found in some Argentinian wines. Following these reports, some wine suppliers in the UK extended their normal quality control to test for Natamycin at very low levels of concentration, and have identified some wines that contain traces of it.

Based on the information so far, “THERE IS NO RISK TO HEALTH” claim online wine supplier Naked Wines.

Natamycin “IS APPROVED IN THE EU FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION in products like cheeses and sausages” they scream, “but it is NOT approved in wine.… Click here to continue reading this article

01772643207 and 01512 553580

Getting silent calls in the UK from the number 01772643207 or 01512 553580?

Wondering who it is? What they want? How they got your ex-directory number? Why they keep calling you? You can find out right here!

One of the numbers used to belong to a company called “R.S.R. FREIGHT SERVICES” if you check Google and 192.com. However, they don’t own that number any more.

This company uses Power or Predictive Dialling equipment. A Power Dialler is an automated dialler which can store, access and automatically dial telephone numbers and a Predictive Dialler is an automated dialler which will adjust the rate at which it dials, and delivers answered calls automatically to match operator availability.… Click here to continue reading this article

Bintu Camara email scam bintu2000@katamail.com

Good Day

How are you and your family hope fine?I greet you in the name of the most High God.

I am Bintu Camara , my mother died during the war in sudan, i am the
daughter of the late political father Dr. lawrance camara , who was the
political  God father to the late  Dr. Jonh Garang the late Sudanese Vice
President who died in a plane crash July 31st 2005, and was buried in August
5th 2005.I hereby with this medium inform you that my father was killed in a
plane crash by the Sudanese government which the whole world is aware of
accusing my father that he is one of the  rebel leaders when he is not.… Click here to continue reading this article

Russian Marriage Forum

Looking for a Russian Marriage Forum? A message board, bulletin board, a discussion board or a conversation forum to discuss Russian women, Ukrainian women, Eastern European women and former Soviet Union women?

We can help you. There are many Russian women conversation and discussion (Russian marriage) forums out there, but which one is right for you?

You want one that is busy right? With experienced people able to answer all your queries? One that has no hidden agendas or back room smear campaigns going on?

There are three forums  that are considered “big” (having over 100k posts).… Click here to continue reading this article

FileZilla FTP Client and Google Adsense Ads

FileZilla FTP Client and Google Adsense Ads

Do not use Filezilla if your pages contain Google Adsense code. Your Adsense code will be corrupted on upload and your ads will not show.

FileZilla seem to know about this (indeed, it is something in their product that causes it) but seem unconcerned about it.

Many people are now trawling the internet searching for a replacement for SmartFTP who just recently decided that their product was not free any more.

Googling “Free FTP Client” takes you to FileZilla most likely. You read all about the lovely cuddly open source software and the resource and back up forums and you probably do what I did; download it and give it a whirl.… Click here to continue reading this article

Andrew Parker Delta Lloyd Amsterdam email scam

Another email scam doing the rounds today. Perhaps you received this: 

Hello,

I seek your assistance on a business transaction that will be of mutual benefits.
Please, read below the details of this transaction and what
is required of you to get this transaction started:

Mr. Andrew Parker was my client for over a decade. He died of cardiac
arrest in 2002. He had a deposit in the sum of US$45M with Delta Lloyd
Finance Amsterdam.

The bank contacted me as Mr. Andrew Parker’s attorney to get his next
of kin.… Click here to continue reading this article

DBS Hong Kong Ltd, Hing Lung Building email scam

This another e-mail scam doing the rounds today: 

Dear Friend,

Please be patient and read this email.

I am Mr. James Lee, the Assistant Director of Operations of the DBS Hong Kong Ltd, Hing Lung Building, 202-210 Castle Peak Road, Kowloon. 

An Iraqi named Amjad Shareef a business man made a numbered fixed deposit of (112,211,709.80 HKD) for 18 calendar months; this is valued to ($14, 400, 000, 00) Dollars (FOURTEEN MILLION FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATE DOLLARS ONLY) in my branch. Upon maturity several notices was sent to him, even during the war, three years ago (2005).  … Click here to continue reading this article

AgencyScams.net is a spoof site created by Dream-Marriage.com

AgencyScams.net – as with many things in cyberspace – is not exactly what it seems. A website called Dream-Marriage.com is actually the creator of AgencyScams.net – it is a site they built to discredit the famous AgencyScams.com website.

The original AgencyScams.com website is actually a resource for men seeking Russian women where they can check out the reputation of agencies and related websites. AgencyScams.com is actually a well regarded website.

Here is the crux of the matter. Dream-Marriage.com received a negative editorial on AgencyScams.com, and by means of revenge they set up AgencyScams.… Click here to continue reading this article

eBay Buyers Get Greedier! Case Study: Janet Bailey aka jsb190854

Janet Bailey of The Cottage, 8 Alderton Road, Chippenham, Wilts. SN14 6AN is a typical example of the new generation of greedy eBayer. Buying occasionally from eBay under the username jsb190854, Janet is of the breed that starts complaining AFTER she has purchased and received the goods.

Anyone with half a brain, when buying from eBay, checks the postage and handling price, and weighs up the total cost to determine if they are getting value for money. Janet is not of this strain of regular person. Her preferred method is to buy the goods, have them satisfactorily and speedily delivered, find they are to her satisfaction and THEN she will start pestering you and complaining about it.… Click here to continue reading this article

WONG & WANG ADVOCATES & SOLICITOR E-MAIL FRAUD

E-mail scams are nothing new, but as long as people continue to document them across the internet, it will save the odd person from having their bank accounts emptied by Nigerian miscreants. The text from this one is the usual recycled rubbish, but the e-mail address and some other detail has not been documented by Google at the time of writing. The text is as below: 

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WONG&WANG ADVOCATES&SOLICITOR

MELAKA RAYA

MALAYSIA

TEL: +60163149032

 

I AM BARRISTER WONG LEE , ATTORNEY AT LAW.  My deceased client shares the same last

name as yours,  who died as the result of a heart-related condition in March 12th 2005.… Click here to continue reading this article

Eastern European Girl – Large Age Gap – Cheeky Girls

I don’t know how much coverage these guys got in the US and the rest of the world, but here in Britain, they were never out of the press.

Lembit Öpik is a British Liberal Democrat politician of Estonian descent. He is currently the Member of Parliament for the constituency of Montgomeryshire in Wales.

Gabriela Irimia is one half of the twin sister pop group “The Cheeky Girls”. They are from Cluj-Napoca in Transylvania, Romania, but based in Britain. Their songs were questionable, but they were always guaranteed an audience of male fans, being twin Eastern European sisters that look like this:

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Lembit and Gabriela struck up an unlikely relationship.… Click here to continue reading this article

Mail Order Bride Guide

Mail Order Brides – It’s a term you hear referred to quite often, yet so many men go into the search for a mail order bride with an inaccurate idea of the landscape they are entering. Do mail order brides actually exist? Let’s examine the landscape a little.

Ten years ago, almost every man seeking a Russian bride would have been relatively wealthy in his own country; he had to be in order to manage the process as it stood then. He would therefore, in all likelihood have been older than the average man seeking to marry in his own country and certainly older than the women he was meeting.… Click here to continue reading this article

The Weak, Collapsing Pound against the Euro and Dollar.

As recession bites deeper into the United Kingdom, our usually strong pound has recently been derided as a “Peso Pound” abroad.

At the time of writing, a pound is worth $1-44, One Euro or Forty-One Russian Rubles. A collapse of over 25% in just a few short months.

Anybody with a second home in Europe or the USA, who did not stack ample cash reserves in those currencies already, will already be feeling the pain in the form of increased sterling equivalents when paying their Euro or Dollar denominated mortgages.

Anybody in the Euro zone or the USA who receives income in £ sterling will be similarly reeling, as are holidaymakers and importers.… Click here to continue reading this article

UK Recession Overview

A recession or a depression does not happen overnight. You do not go to sleep one night feeling affluent, and wake up the next day inexplicably impecunious. It takes time for the economy to get over inflated, reach a peak, and then begin the slide downwards. How far it slides, and for how long, dictates whether the down wave is called a downturn, recession or a depression.

The government is fond of using other euphemisms to stop the spread of panic. “Business contractions”, “periods of stagflation”, “credit crunch”, “extended seasonal slumps”, “market corrections” and “rolling adjustments” are all fine examples of political doublespeak that all mean pretty much the same thing to you and me.… Click here to continue reading this article