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Entries from August 2008

flapstate.com / mdanclub.com / wayizer.com

August 11th, 2008 · 33 Comments

Today I was contacted by someone about a domain flapstate.com which was still on my spam list from spam received last year. It looks like since then the domain had expired and been deleted, but then registered by a new owner for what appears to be a scam.
The same scam also uses domains

mdanclub.com
wayizer.com
wayate.com
coralnic.com
grigga.com
srcify.com
azureclub.com
flipality.com

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Tags: scams · spam

Good bye Audi, welcome Prius!

August 4th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Only about 6% of cars sold in Japan are foreign makes (mostly German), but Kanagawa prefecture and its capital Yokohama have one of the highest rates of import cars in Japan. Yokohama is one of the two major ports (the other is Kobe), it has a relatively long history of exposure to Western influences and [...]

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Tags: Prius · cars · hybrids