Pinging With A Nokia

You remember the joor o remix by Jah Bless. The part that Durella was sarcastic about pinging with a Nokia. The thought was just impossible at the time. There can be miracles when you believe. Today it is possible to ping with a Nokia. Yes the android version of the Nokia X series. If one can ping with a Techno, who says you can't ping with a Nokia? Well for the Nokia Lumia series, the blackberry messenger isn't far fetched. It has been made available to testers today by the developers so as to ascertain its efficiency on the windows platform before it will be released to the public via the windows store. So I ask in Yoruba " Talo so pe a o le ping pelu Nokia? jooooooooor o."

YOUR FACEBOOK PROFILE HAS BEEN CLONED NOW WHAT?

Cloning refers to producing identical copies of an original. Recently facebook profile cloning has come into the spotlight. Facebook profile cloning is a type of identity theft where dodgy characters literally make a second profile that looks exactly like your current one. They then send request to your friends fooling everyone in thinking that it is you. You may be wondering how they did it. Well there is no special skills involved and anyone with internet access to your complete fb profile can do it.

First they gain access to your complete facebook profile by sending you a facebook request, this wouldn’t be in your name. once this friends request is accepted, they start copying your information. Using a fake email account setup with a free email provider like Gmail or Hotmail they register for a new Facebook account. They use your exact names to create this account and upload your saved profile and cover pics to give this new account the exact same look as your real profile.  This is only the start of the cloning process. Once they have a basic copy of your profile they start cloning everything on your real profile by simply copying and pasting it. Your contact information, education, work history and everything else get copied onto the new profile. With this cloned profile they then join and like all the Fan pages and groups you belong to. They even go as far as copying your latest posts or comments. They do all of this to give this cloned profile the exact same look and feel as the real one making it very difficult to spot it as a fake.

Now this is the annoying part! They actually go and Block your real profile with the cloned one. They do this by viewing your real profile with the fake account and simply clicking on Report/block. Once this is done you will never be able to see this new profile and won’t even know of its existence!  They can now do anything they want on Facebook as you without you knowing that they even exist! With this blocking feature they can comment after you (as you) on a post and you will not see it. They can now manipulate, extort, beg for money and do whatever they want right under your nose and you won’t know a thing. They will even ‘block’ your wife and close friends and family from seeing this new profile making it even more difficult for you to detect.

They will then send friend request to all your friends. Once a few accept the rest follows and you have a major problem.  This intruder can now literally also control your real profile using the cloned one. Example: You comment (with your real profile)on a friends profile that your car broke down and that the day can only get better... your friend replies “Ag shame man... hope it all works out”. The cloned profile then replies on the same post with “Please can you send me some money?” Because your real profile is blocked by the cloned one you will not see this message.  The cloned profile can now extort money from all your friends right under your nose. They can also message all your friends (as you) asking for money. They can post on their walls and comment on anything your friend post without you seeing a thing.

Now that we know how they do it we can do a few things to try and prevent it.

1.        Do not accept friend request from people you do not know.

2.       Delete all people you do not know from your friends list.

3.       Edit your Facebook privacy setting by clicking on the Gear icon.

4·        Select “Privacy settings”

5·         Next to “Who can see my stuff” and “Who can see your future posts” select “Friends”.

6·         Select “Limit past posts” and confirm.

·         Select “Timeline and Tagging” and change all the settings to “Friends”.

7       Change your photo albums privacy settings. Set the privacy settings of each album on your profile so that only your friends can see your photo albums.

8.        Change your Profile and Cover pictures on a regular basis.

9.        Post a comment on your home page informing all your friends not to accept a second friend request    from you and to inform you in case they do get one.

Should you know that your profile have been cloned visit the facebook help centre and immediately report it.

Or if better still if you can, delete your facebook profile completely and communicate with your friends in the old fashioned way by phoning, writing a letter, sending an email or visiting them.

Do you Soley Own Your Twitter Account?

Do you know if you twitter account have been compromised? Have you checked your tweets lately and suspect tweet that do not belong to you talking about how to engage more followership. It could be in you DM box you sending messages to people to open links to site. Well not much said, you are sharing your twitter account.

I had that problem three weeks back. It even got twitter to suspend my account. I had to write to twitter promising them it would not happen again (avoidable carelessness on my part). I retrieved my account, reset the password but I still discovered I was still sharing. I opened one of the links and found out that it was actually me that allowed them to through this third party authentication apps. So I unsubscribed and voila my twitter account became soley mine once again.

The thing is be careful about who you give authentication to. All these followership of a thing it is not a must you should have a million followers like lady gaga or Beyonce. It does not upgrade your status in short you could loose what you already have in your quest to gain.

Samsung Galaxy Grand Duos

This is the next big thing. Samsung Galaxy Grand Duos. You can preorder it before it is available and also get a chance to go to Banky W's album launch. (I'm a die hard Banky fan) Yes, no Yes/No in this one.

The phone comes with Android Jelly Bean 4.1,modem HSPA, battery life 2100mha. Which is quite good.
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Globacom Twitter handle as Customer Care

Globacom twitter handle also serves as a customer care though they use only one twitter handle for everything. Promos, Enquiries, customer support and what have you. Their response is quick in fact faster than calling them that is if you can get them on the phone.