No more lotto prognosis? [Update]

This article only deals with one specific method of pretended lotto prognoses (and more from that company). » Click here for all my articles about lotto

lotto ticket and pen - photo from lotto-bw.de The original version of this article was from October 11, but since a lot has changed, I also updated the date. I had written:

Y’know, it’s kinda funny, on Monday I publish an extensive article about the pretended lotto prognosis from globalscaling.de = raum-energie-forschung.de, and sometime in the last few days they didn’t just make their start page a little prettier (less cramped) – the lotto prognosis has disappeared from the start page and the title navigation bar!

:jubel:

Well, got my hopes up too soon. In the mean time, two red “News” bars were added to the homepage, one of which links to the “new” lotto prognosis homepage (which is only the already known customer area) – maybe their customers complained they didn’t find that stuff anymore…

:heul:

So this no longer applies either:

Maybe they wanted to give their branch of science(?) a more respectable paintwork by painting over what must be appearing as quite dubious a stain even to relative laymen…

Update 20 Nov 07: Updated prognosis analysis.


I’ve also been informed about something else (thanks again!): A company called “GSDI Cyprus Ltd.”, apparently with the participation of or at least referrence to “Global Scaling” founder Dr. Hartmut Müller, was searching investors a few years ago for a new kind of data transmission, tempting them with high “patent yields”, what also made FINANZtest (1/2004) publish a warning (see e.g. Anlageschutzarchiv (German)).

:stop:

As it seems, nothing has come of it – except for a new “technology” for data encryption for online banking called “GSPIN”, still with participation of “GSDI Cyprus Ltd.” and the “Yesilada Bank” (both in North Cyprus), though now mainly on www.morint.com instead of www.gsdi-cyprus.com, and they’d like investors now, too, of course.

:thumbsdown:

You may make your own thoughts about the trustworthiness of that whole “Global Scaling” construct…

Reply from Anghela

– Continued from this funny spam mail from 9 Oct.

(Again, I’ll try to make this the mockery of a spam in bad German have some sense to you English readers…)

Thank you for replying, Anghela, even though it took you two days to “read” my minimalist mail (so please don’t complain with “I to want, that you had replied faster”) – to reply with a downright, but language-wise wrong novel.

As you write yourself: “When you will really understand my letters, means, me it is good to teach German.” Oooh yes, it would really be good to teach you German so that you don’t need to have your Russian-English (mails contain untranslated English words) babelfish-translated

Anyway, it’s nice that you reveal so much about yourself, such as “Me call Anghela, but my friends, me Angel to call (German “Angel” = “fishing rod”) – how many lonely guys, morons or baiters (i.e. people who themselves try to bait spammers/scammers) do you have on your fishhook already? :)

My human, wise has the strong spirit just, he is good and noble and generous.” “Your human?” Gee, are you actually an android? Or a “pet” looking for a new “master”? Well, everyone has his/her fetish, but that’s getting a bit too far for me… you seem to be a real little masochist, anyway, if you “like to swim the beach” – I rather swim in the water, that’s not so laborious and probably less painful than in sand or rubble.

I live in Russia in a larg?, but the save city of Moscow.” Sorry to hear that – I think it might be quite uncomfortable to live in a “larg?”. But as long as it saves the city some money… some social housing scheme that needs improvement? Is Moscow not that great after all? For your health problem – “who I will the very high temperature of my heart and with it give, who I always together” – is there no cardiologist available in Moscow? Then I can really understand that you’d like to come to the west…

Well, me too “seeing in the future with the hope and the smiling will”, bye, my “(boy)friend from Russia Anghela!!”

:loll:

(PS: If you, dear reader, happen to own the rights of these pictures the spammers used, just send me a little note and I’ll remove them.)

Show entire scam text (German) ▼

See also this German antispam forum here and there……

Continued: Anghela No. 3

Guess I should mention in every part of this series that this can only be from frauds who want to grift pretended travel costs.

Keep On Rocking!

Rockantenne logo Happy 8th birthday, Rockantenne, Bavaria’s Rocking Radio! By the way, not just playing the whole bandwidth of rock music, but quite a full program with news, info, fun (and advertising) and a few big raffles per year (where I’ve also won a few bucks a few years ago :mrgreen: ).

My favorite station for 4½ years that I’m now living in Bavaria…

Can be received throughout Bavaria via DAB Digital Radio (thanks to my proximity to the nearest transmitter without problems in house), FM in Augsburg, cable, Europe-wide via satellite and worldwide via Internet. Just have a listen!

Fiery Pope!

Did good old Karol really appear in a bonfire during a ceremony on his death’s second anniversary (already this April) – and if so, what does he want to tell us with this purgatorial or hellfire look?


(Image from the Daily Mail – see there for larger version)

Or is it a dancing John Travolta? Seemed to me, too…

Was it manipulated (which the photographer apparently denies strictly)? Or is it simply anything you want to interpret into it (see pareidolia)? I’m favoring the latter…

(via Bad Astronomy: “Popeidolia”)

Front door missionaries

This morning, about 10 o’clock, via Heute vormittag ca. 10 Uhr via intercom system, an almost purring-dreamy female voice(*):

“Good day, my name is […]. We found out how much the Holy Scripture means to us…”

My translation, and not necessarily verbatim – I shouldn’t have waited that long with this post… By the way, that was only the second time someone like that rang my doorbell.

“Thank God” that wasn’t at an “ungodly hour”…


(*) Unfortunately not “my (boy)friend Anghela;)