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Seminar by Singapore TOP 3 Financial Service Corp caught on CCTV

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A friend of mine forwarded me an seminar invitation and asking if I am interested to attend the seminar too. Following the url provided, I found the event published on Evenbrite. I then asked my friend, who is this ' very competitive financial service corp ' that ranked as one of the 'Top 3 in Singapore" and who are the other 2?? "No idea." So we asked our other good friend Google . Looking at the information provided by Google, I asked "You sure it is founded in 1998 and one of the TOP 3?" My friend said "Uhmmm... but the speaker's analysis was featured by Bloomberg , Dow Jones , The Edge and some somemore program filmed by  CCTV before!" Nevermind, we asked our good friend Google again. It seems there is no such program with the name of 'Crash Course' produced by CCTV , but there is one produced by CNA , our Channel News Asia , and our friend share something really similar, if not identical, with us. .... followed by 5 seco...

Job Ads by Singapore Airlines?

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I came across this post shared to the Singapore Free Classified facebook public group. While one can tell that this is not the legitimate job ad by Singapore Airlines straight after the first glance, out of curiosity, I spent a few minutes trying to find out the gimmick behind it. Salary of $9800 for a general worker does sound attractive isn't it? Furthermore, there already 41 shares within 17 hrs, and many has already provided their email id in the comments as instructed. How do they steal? So upon clicking on the image with 'Apply Now' that trying hard to act as a button, I am brought to the website of uptodatejobs.com . Unsurprisingly, it is a simple wordpress site applied with standard template that is full of Google Adsense advertisements. I am not sure why there must have several spelling or grammatical errors that you can easily spot on, and still expects visitors to subscribe to blog (wait, you mean this is a blog site?) via email though. Out of goodwill, I've ...

We have served more than 20 million people worldwide

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This credit card comparison site claims that it has served more than 20 million people worldwide, and there is a running counter that shows the number of 'Price comparisons in the past 24 hours'. Wow, not bad, more than 10 thousand comparisons done on this website within past 24 hours. Wait a minute, let me do the comparison using my preferred browser instead. Eh? How come only 300 comparisons done?!? 5 mins later... both increased by 25... another 10 mins later... increased by 84 vs increased by 70 another 15 mins later... increased by 114 vs increased by 92 Alright... dear site owner, could you please change the tagline to one of the following? We have served more than 20 million robots worldwide . We have bluffed more than 20 million people worldwide . Our robot has served more than 20 million robots worldwide .