john munoz dot com

Scam #3

john — Thu, 17 May 2012 19:46:41 +0000

Just when i thought my luck couldn’t get any better today:

Hello,

I am Mr.Ian Ranking Bill and Exchange Manager,Head of the World Bank Finance Group and Interpol London
Branch, set up to fight against Scam,Financial Crimes and Fraudulent activities worldwide.

This Group is responsible for investigating the legitimacy of unpaid contract, inheritance and lotto winning claims
by companies and individuals and directs the paying authorities (Fiduciary Agents) worldwide to make immediate
payment of verified claims to the beneficiaries without further delay.

You are being legally contacted regarding the release of your long awaited fund. After a detailed review of
your file, the World Bank Group has mandated that your fund should be release immediately.

This is to officially inform you that an ATM CARD worth ($6.3M USD) has been accredited in your favour.
Your Personal Identification Number is 2911.

Please immediately contact our appointed Fiduciary Agent below for the release of your ATM CARD.

Name:Dr.Paul Blair
Company:Global Financier Ltd
Email: infodesk1@financier.com

Please re-confirm to us the following:

FULL NAME:
COUNTRY:
DELIVERY ADDRESS:
AGE:
TELEPHONE:
OCCUPATION:
SEX/GENDER:
PASSPORT COPY:

Thanks for Your Cooperation.

Mr.Ian Ranking
(Bill and Exchange Manager)
World Bank Group. London U.K

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Today’s Scam #3

john — Thu, 17 May 2012 18:53:52 +0000

This Facebook scam is fairly common. It relys on some unsuspecting person to find an article that they feel will lure people into clicking on it. By clicking on it they are usually taking to an app page asking for permission to access your personal information. Then to add shame to the whole process.. it post on that users wall what they just did.. hoping more will fall for it.

Todays Scam #2

john — Thu, 17 May 2012 18:50:28 +0000

This one comes from two parts.. one an unsuspecting user click on an unknown and unexpected link and surprisingly their computer is now infected with a bug that sends it self to all the users in that persons address book. And the cycle continues. This “chain virus” could be stopped if people were just careful about what links they chose to open.

From: Thierno Diallo [mailto:Blackthierno@hotmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2012 4:54 AM
To: me@johnmunoz.net
Subject: RE:John

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Todays Scam #1

john — Thu, 17 May 2012 18:27:33 +0000

Mr Kanani sent me this rtf document to my word email the other day. RTFs are typicaly not host for malicious files so I didn’t mind opening it up. Who uses aol anyway? Here was the original message;

—–Original Message—–
From: John Kanani [mailto:mrjohnkanani3@aol.com]
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2012 4:18 AM
Subject: Dear Munoz
Dear Munoz
I would like to seek your help in a business proposal , which although is sensitive by nature and not what I should discuss with someone I don’t know and have not met using a medium such as this but I do not have a choice.
View My Attach Message
Best regards,
John Kanani

and the RTF included: (DEAR MUNOZ.RTF)

Dear Munoz
I would like to seek your help in a business proposal , which although is sensitive by nature which is not what I should discuss with someone I don’t know and not met using a medium such as this but I do not have a choice .
I am Mr. John Kanani, I was the client service manager of the bank where late Dr. Edward Munoz. left behind a large sum of money, he died of a cardiac arrest a few years ago leaving behind a large sum of money with a commercial bank in the Island of Seychelles which is a tax free zone, a place where plenty of rich people tend to hide away funds not ready to be used or invested. I will not mention the amount of money which runs into several millions in United States Dollars and the name of bank presently until we have agreed to deal. I trust you will understand the need for such precautions.
So far, valuable efforts has been made to get to his people but to no avail, as he had no known relatives he left his next of kin column in his account opening forms blank. Due to this development the bank has been expecting someone to come forward as a close relative to claim the funds otherwise as the Seychelles national laws would have it, any dormant account for five years will be declared unclaimed and then paid into the government purse.
To avert this negative development I and my colleagues have decided to look for a reputable person to act as the next of kin to late Dr. Edward Munoz. So that the funds could be processed and released into any account provided by the person, which is where you come in. We shall make arrangements with a qualified and a reliable attorney to represent you locally to avoid any inconvenience of you coming down to claim the funds.
All legal documents to aid your claim for this fund and to prove your relationship with the deceased will be provided by us. Your help will be appreciated with 30% of the total sum which I would disclose in my next email Please accept my apologies and keep my confidence and disregard this letter if you do not appreciate this proposition i have offered you.
I wait anxiously for your response.
Yours Faithfully,
John Kanani

Fire Safety joint event

john — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 13:51:32 +0000

So April from HR sent this email this morning asking me to take three written test on fire and anti-terrorism safety. Attached of course was a zip file trying to pretend to be a pdf file. At least she could have used proper spelling?

Dear Colleagues
It might be useful for you to know that we are taking part in a joint event with Fire and Counter
Terrroism Safety inculding three written tests on Thursday.
Last year three in ten emplyoees suvreyed could not pass the Fire Safety test.
Each of you will find enclosed a FIRE INSTRUCTION NOTICE
and your role descrpition. Please take a look at the enclosed materials before April.
Kind regards,
April
Department of Human Resources

Moment of truth

john — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 16:48:31 +0000

On or about the 13th of this month the local Fox station notified us that they were able to view the video files we were sending them but they couldn’t see the captions included in there. So thus began a saga lasting almost a month trying to get them a file that would include captions.

The process was..

Edit the video to fit the time line

create a low quality video to electronically send…

Find a transcriptionist to transcribe the entire show

Find a company to take that transcript and time it with the video – actually create the captions

Have them email me a Scenarist (SCC) file of the captions.

Import the captions back into the time line and create a final video file with the captions embedded

That last step has been the doozey. I began sending them files fairly soon but the station wasn’t able to read the captions. we went around this road for several weeks.. almost a month. I initially purchased Sony Vegas Pro because this seamed to be the only program that could embedded the captions in the video file. We also tried final cut pro and adobe premiere. those didn’t work. Finally I created a video with every possible format that Vegas could create. Emailed it to them and said.. tell me which one works. Earlier this week I got an email saying we found one! The new file has been delivered and if all goes well it should be on air this weekend.

A trip you didn’t plan?

john — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 16:38:16 +0000

Looks like the old scammers have new tricks. This one drives you to click on a link, (http://sitesubmiturl.com/4txGy2fG/index.html) that is really a hidden link to (http://207.210.101.44/showthread.php?t=73a07bcb51f4be71) That is actually a domestic ip block owned by Global net Access, LLC (GNAXNET)

The webserver it’s attached to seams to be spitting out 403’s now..

Text:

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Confirmation code: 810227 Check-in online: Online reservation details

Flight 4164 Departure city and time Washington, DC (DCA) 10:00PM Depart date: 4/5/2012

We are committed to protecting your privacy. Your information is kept private and confidential. For information about our privacy policy visit usairways.com. US Airways, 111 W. Rio Salado Pkwy, Tempe, AZ 85281 , Copyright US Airways , All rights reserved.

Almost there…

john — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 15:55:15 +0000

So close to being on the air. The TV station we are trying to get on has accepted our video format and the content but we need to provide them with closed captions.

We ended up hiring a company in Pennsylvania, ccmaker.com to do the work of transcribing and timing out all of the captions. They send is back a computer file that has the captions on them and input them back in our video. Here is where the problem comes in. The complete file we are sending the tv station doesn’t seam to be in a format that they can read the captions with. We are editing with Sony Vegas because it’s the only editing program that seams to be able to embedded captions back in the rendered file. But it’s just not working quiet right yet. I tried Final Cut, and Adobe Premiere Pro and they all say “embedding captions in the video is not possible at this time”

“Help me Vegas.. you’re my only hope”

I’ve got a discussion going on the Sony Forum about the issue and have gotten some good input so far…

There are also training videos saying it should work..

I just can’t get it work. Today I purchased a support contract with Sony to try and enlist their help to solve this issue. Once that’s done hopefully the can help me get the 2nd language running as well.

I’ve married the most amazing woman…

john — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 21:03:52 +0000

It’s been a hard month. Not going to lie. The past 22 days have been trying but rewarding. My days have been 8-5 at work the from my real job i’d head over to church and spend the rest of the evening there.. coming home usually around midnight.. get up, back to work and repeat the process. Weekends even worse.. usually get to church early and spend all weekend out there. I knew when we took on this HD project that it would be long hours the light at the end of the tunnel is finally starting to show it’s head. Through all of that i haven’t gotten to see Patti but only during the few waking hours between gettin in bed and and leaving for work. She’s also managed to put on a huge event for the foundation she works for that ended up being a huge success and undertaking. She has also been gathering for the huge church garage sale, getting Hannah ready for her state competition, dealing with megan being sick and even took in a stray along the way. I don’t know how she manages to do it all. I must have married wonder woman.

HD upgrades near completion

john — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 05:57:57 +0000

Last sunday we pulled all of the analog equipment which really meant all of the equipment out of the media office and made room for the hd equipment. Monday we rented the scissor lift and began pulling the old wiring and installing the new wiring. the old wiring was 25 conductor control cable and Multicore cable. Then we replaced then with RG-6 and CAT5 wiring. Much cheeper and easier to work with. We working on this through most of the evening on Monday night. Tuesday night we strung up wiring behind the stage and began setting up the equipment room to become the wiring hub. Wed I took a floating holiday off from work. The last of the new equipment arrived. We unboxed some of the hardware and sent some stuff off to be manufactured at a local machine shop. Unboxed some more and began setting up the PTZ’s and the master control. We also began programing the PTZ’s for the cameras. We have a combination of Sony and Panasonic cameras so the controllers needed to be customized for each protocol. We then began working on running cabling from the equipment room to the media office to make the final connections. Thursday we closed up the mounted up the ptz’s up and began interconnecting everything to the switcher mainframe. we also ran cabling from the balcony all the way back to the media office for the two rear cameras and two-channel communications. we also wired up the communications to the sound console to deliver communications to a wireless IEM channel for the wireless camera operators. friday we put the finishing touches on everything and began learning the operation of all the new software. We also wired up a makeshift recording system and projection system. That evening we debuted the new cameras with a concert being held at the church. It was a rough start be we got to use the time to figure out all the of the stuff and begin to work out the kinks.

Today we cleaned up our mess and the office and finalized some last cable runs to the sound booth. we also returned the projection equipment to the booth as well as increased the projection resolution from 1024×768 to 1600×1200. Our system could support 1080i however we still need to match up some final settings before pushing our limits. We were also able to bring in the mixed feed back into the projection computer. The software doesn’t seam to support 16×9 however so there may be some aspect ratio weirdness going on until we swap software

Left to Do

-Acquire HD Recorder

http://www.aja.com/products/kipro/ki-pro/ki-pro-description.php

-SDI Scaller

http://www.extron.com/product/product.aspx?id=dvs304dvi&subtype=285&s=4

-SDI Streamer

-Pro Presenter with alpha-key

http://www.extron.com/product/product.aspx?id=vsc700&subtype=285&s=4

-wide screen confidence monitors

-additional BNC/RG-6 compression connectors

-gaffers tape to hide wiring