Scammed by Ervin Abellanosa?
August 29, 2008
You are not the only one. Several members of the PMT Forum unfortunately became victims too to the scamming prowess of a certain Ervin Abellanosa.
His modus operandi normally involve ecurrency exchanges. For example, an unwitting party sends money to Abellanosa’s bank account as payment for egold or Paypal funds. After the payment is sent, Abellanosa would reply that his Paypal account got limited and that the other party must wait until he solves the problem. Several days later, the buyer won’t hear from Abellanosa anymore.
What Seth Godin should have said about click fraud
August 28, 2008
Since we’re on the topic of invalid clicks and click fraud, I’d like to join the blogosphere’s discussion on book author and marketer Seth Godin’s statement about clicking on website ads.
It seems Mr. Godin made a major blunder by apparently promoting click fraud when he wrote in his blog:
If every time you read a blog post or bit of online content you enjoyed you clicked on an ad to say thanks, the economics of the web would change immediately. You don’t have to buy anything (though it’s fine if you do). You just have to honor the writer by giving them a click. (emphasis added)
He tried to defend his position in a follow-up post but no matter how you look at it, his first post ultimately encouraged site visitors to commit click fraud.
Google Adsense, click fraud and invalid clicks
August 27, 2008
The more ad clicks, the more you can earn from Google Adsense.
That’s the mantra of most Adsense publishers. However, not all ad clicks are good. Some clicks can even get one’s Adsense account banned.
To know more about ad clicks, click fraud, and invalid clicks, we’ve prepared a guide below. Read on.
Make money with Paypal
August 26, 2008
If you’ve been following our posts about Paypal, you’ll see that there really is a way to make money using Paypal. In May 2008, we wrote about the $30 and $85 bonus we got from Paypal. These are payments for PayPal’s Merchant Referral Bonus Program, wherein you can be entitled to receive a portion of Paypal transaction amounts of the people you referred to PayPal. Last week, we received another batch of Paypal referral bonuses. This time, the bonus totaled a whopping $182.00 as seen in the screenshot below. Read more
Invalid clicks in Bidvertiser
August 25, 2008
For several months now, Bidvertiser is becoming a good complement to Google Adsense as a money-making program. During our first month, we earned $33.15 from Bidvertiser and every month since then, we average $40-50 a month.
(August 2008) Physician Licensure Exam results
August 23, 2008
The Professional Regulation Commission announced that 1,513 out of 2,506 passed the Physician Licensure Examination of the Philippines given by the Board of Medicine in August 2008. This translates to a passing rate of 60.4%.
The top performing schools and top 10 passers are the following. Below is the complete list of new doctors.
Top 50 Philippine blogs (August 2008)
August 22, 2008
The August 2008 update to the list of Top Philippine Blogs which we have been tracking for five months now is here.
The rankings are primarily based on Alexa.com’s 3-month traffic rank.
Download Internet Explorer 7.0 spyware threat
August 21, 2008
Last week I received an email supposedly from admin@microsoft.com instructing me to upgrade to Internet Explorer 7.0, the latest update to Microsoft’s browser.
If I didn’t know better, I would have automatically clicked on the download link. Instantly, then, I would have made myself a victim of a spyware threat.
Below is a copy of that malicious IE7 email.
Classes in Metro Manila suspended today
August 20, 2008
Classes in elementary, high school, and college levels in Metro Manila have been suspended today in anticipation of floods and rains brought by typhoon Karen.
Will the iPhone sell in the Philippines?
August 19, 2008
The launch of the Apple iPhone in the Philippines is just a few days away (on August 22, to be exact) but an analyst thinks the timing of the launch may just not be right.
According to an analyst of XMG Asia Pacific, the roll-out of the iPhone in the Philippines “came at a very bad time.”
