Warning: Fraudulent InterSwitch website at broadadnigeria.com

I want to believe that a fraudulent webpage hosted online is not positive advertisement, as far as a media company and a Nigerian webhosting company are concerned.

This is the mail I got:

In text: 

Dear ATM Card User,

This is to hereby notify you of the recent Central Bank of Nigeria Directive to all banks to switch to the new and secured chip ATM cards.
With this directive,all old ATM cards shall be inactivated.

With the new Cards,there shall be no more transaction charges when you use your ATM cards and it is more secured.go to the website below to register for your new card;

http://broadadnigeria.com/online/newSecuritys.html

You are getting this mail because you have not updated.

REGARDS

Mr.Tony Ede
Assistant Director,
LAGOS OFFICE
Office Address:Tinubu Square,Lagos
Postal Address:P.M.B. 12194,Lagos.
Fax: +234(1)882 617

Heres a screenshot of the scam interswitch URL:

and here is the file in the /online DIR:

http://broadadnigeria.com/online/newSecuritys.html 

The media company Name is: Broad-Ad Audio Visual Production Services.

 

Registration and hosting services are provided by hostnaija.com:

 

Address lookup

canonical name    broadadnigeria.com.
aliases   
addresses     67.222.1.219
Domain Whois record

Queried whois.internic.net with "dom broadadnigeria.com"…

   Domain Name: BROADADNIGERIA.COM
   Registrar: DIRECTI INTERNET SOLUTIONS PVT. LTD. D/B/A PUBLICDOMAINREGISTRY.COM
   Whois Server: whois.PublicDomainRegistry.com
   Referral URL: http://www.PublicDomainRegistry.com
   Name Server: NS1.PMVPS-SERVERS01.NET
   Name Server: NS2.PMVPS-SERVERS01.NET
   Status: clientTransferProhibited
   Updated Date: 15-mar-2010
   Creation Date: 15-mar-2010
   Expiration Date: 15-mar-2011

>>> Last update of whois database: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 07:18:33 UTC <<<
Queried whois.publicdomainregistry.com with "broadadnigeria.com"…

Registration Service Provided By: HOSTNAIJA.COM
Contact: +234.8035937812
Website: http://www.hostnaija.com

Domain Name: BROADADNIGERIA.COM

Registrant:
    Broad Ad Nigeria
    Kevin Ushi        (kevushi@yahoo.com)
    Surulere
    Lagos
    Lagos,23401
    NG
    Tel. +234.8020308585

Creation Date: 15-Mar-2010 
Expiration Date: 15-Mar-2011

Domain servers in listed order:
    ns2.pmvps-servers01.net
    ns1.pmvps-servers01.net

Administrative Contact:
    Broad Ad Nigeria
    Kevin Ushi        (kevushi@yahoo.com)
    Surulere
    Lagos
    Lagos,23401
    NG
    Tel. +234.8020308585

Technical Contact:
    Broad Ad Nigeria
    Kevin Ushi        (kevushi@yahoo.com)
    Surulere
    Lagos
    Lagos,23401
    NG
    Tel. +234.8020308585

Billing Contact:
    Broad Ad Nigeria
    Kevin Ushi        (kevushi@yahoo.com)
    Surulere
    Lagos
    Lagos,23401
    NG
    Tel. +234.8020308585

Status:LOCKED
    Note: This Domain Name is currently Locked. In this status the domain
    name cannot be transferred, hijacked, or modified. The Owner of this
    domain name can easily change this status from their control panel.
    This feature is provided as a security measure against fraudulent domain name hijacking.
Network Whois record

Queried whois.arin.net with "n 67.222.1.219"…

NetRange:       67.222.0.0 – 67.222.31.255
CIDR:           67.222.0.0/19
OriginAS:       AS27645, AS30496
NetName:        PRIVATE-1
NetHandle:      NET-67-222-0-0-1
Parent:         NET-67-0-0-0-0
NetType:        Direct Allocation
NameServer:     NS2.PRIVATESYSTEMS.NET
NameServer:     NS1.PRIVATESYSTEMS.NET
RegDate:        2008-01-29
Updated:        2008-09-29
Ref:            http://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-67-222-0-0-1

OrgName:        PrivateSystems Networks
OrgId:          KNOWN-1
Address:        1114-100 New Point Blvd. PMB 143
City:           Leland
StateProv:      NC
PostalCode:     28451
Country:        US
RegDate:        2008-01-04
Updated:        2010-01-22
Ref:            http://whois.arin.net/rest/org/KNOWN-1

OrgAbuseHandle: PNA44-ARIN
OrgAbuseName:   PrivateSystems Networks Abuse
OrgAbusePhone:  +1-866-332-9894
OrgAbuseEmail:  abuse@privatesystems.net
OrgAbuseRef:    http://whois.arin.net/rest/poc/PNA44-ARIN

OrgNOCHandle: NOC2915-ARIN
OrgNOCName:   Network Operations Center
OrgNOCPhone:  +1-866-332-9894
OrgNOCEmail:  noc@privatesystems.net
OrgNOCRef:    http://whois.arin.net/rest/poc/NOC2915-ARIN

OrgTechHandle: NOC2915-ARIN
OrgTechName:   Network Operations Center
OrgTechPhone:  +1-866-332-9894
OrgTechEmail:  noc@privatesystems.net
OrgTechRef:    http://whois.arin.net/rest/poc/NOC2915-ARIN

RTechHandle: NOC2915-ARIN
RTechName:   Network Operations Center
RTechPhone:  +1-866-332-9894
RTechEmail:  noc@privatesystems.net
RTechRef:    http://whois.arin.net/rest/poc/NOC2915-ARIN

RAbuseHandle: NOC2915-ARIN
RAbuseName:   Network Operations Center
RAbusePhone:  +1-866-332-9894
RAbuseEmail:  noc@privatesystems.net
RAbuseRef:    http://whois.arin.net/rest/poc/NOC2915-ARIN

RNOCHandle: NOC2915-ARIN
RNOCName:   Network Operations Center
RNOCPhone:  +1-866-332-9894
RNOCEmail:  noc@privatesystems.net
RNOCRef:    http://whois.arin.net/rest/poc/NOC2915-ARIN
DNS records

name    class    type    data    time to live
broadadnigeria.com    IN    MX   
preference:    0
exchange:    broadadnigeria.com
14400s    (04:00:00)
broadadnigeria.com    IN    SOA   
server:    ns1.pmvps-servers01.net
email:    princemorpheus.gmail.com
serial:    2010071202
refresh:    86400
retry:    7200
expire:    3600000
minimum ttl:    86400
86400s    (1.00:00:00)
broadadnigeria.com    IN    NS    ns1.pmvps-servers01.net    86400s    (1.00:00:00)
broadadnigeria.com    IN    NS    ns2.pmvps-servers01.net    86400s    (1.00:00:00)
broadadnigeria.com    IN    A    67.222.1.219    14400s    (04:00:00)
219.1.222.67.in-addr.arpa    IN    PTR    host.pmvps-servers01.net    86400s    (1.00:00:00)
Traceroute

Tracing route to broadadnigeria.com [67.222.1.219]…

hop    rtt    rtt    rtt         ip address    fully qualified domain name
1    1    0    0         70.84.211.97    61.d3.5446.static.theplanet.com
2    0    0    0         70.87.254.1    po101.dsr01.dllstx5.theplanet.com
3    0    0    0         70.85.127.105    po51.dsr01.dllstx3.theplanet.com
4    0    0    0         70.87.255.37    25.ff.5746.static.theplanet.com
5    0    0    0         4.59.32.29    xe-8-1-0.edge4.dallas3.level3.net
6    0    0    0         4.69.145.136    ae-3-80.edge3.dallas1.level3.net
7    4    1    2         8.9.232.74    colo4-dalla.edge3.dallas1.level3.net
8    2    2    2         206.123.64.30    ge-1-2.core2.colo4dallas.net
9    1    1    1         67.222.0.137    vz37-tx.privatesystems.net
10    1    1    1         67.222.1.219    host.pmvps-servers01.net
Trace complete

Heres a ping response from domain name: broadadnigeria.com and hostnaija.com. Both are on the same server.

THe question I have is: who is scamming who?

Is Mr. Kevin Ushi responsible for placing a newsSecurity.html page in the /online DIR of his own website, or are the servers of hostnaija.com compromised such that /online/newSecuritys.html is created by default.

Beware!

Webhosting company review: Web4Africa SUCKS

Just when I thought I had gotten over Web4Africa, someone unfortunately reminds me about them….rolls eyes and hisses.

I have some work doing, so here am I trying to get a head on start for the weekend. A friend of mine came online about an hour ago. We last met Dec, 2008 before he travelled abroad for further studies. I and my guy had then been discussing a couple of things regarding a project we wanted to embark on, first of which was getting a reputable webhost, and then we hoped other things would fall into place. As of this writing, the project is still a project; unfortunately, it has become an abandoned project, as my experience with Web4Africa was like pouring very cold water on a budding fire.

Enough of the whining and crying, let the sleeping dogs lie. I and my guy haven’t spoken in a while, so we had a lot of catching up to do. After about 45-minutes, he had to catch up to something else, and I proceeded with what I was doing. Searching up something on google, only to find some interesting article, titled: 14 Things To Consider When Choosing A Webhost For Your WordPress Powered Site, how I wished I read this before jumping into the Web4Africa bandwagon. And it was just after I read the “first thing to be considered” that I decided to write this post. Heres what the author(WP Tavern) of the above article has to say:

Google Research – Always type into Google “Name Of Webhosting Company Sucks” to get a grasp on the issues that have been reported with that particular webhost. When webhosting companies screw up, people are very vocal about it and will stop at nothing to complain to all who will listen. Unfortunately, the side effect to this research is that you’ll find out every webhosting company in existence, sucks.

And as if I wanted to verify if WP Tavern was telling the truth, I typed: “We4bAfrica sucks” into my google search page, and what did I find:

Someone even votes Web4Africa as the worst webhost of 2010?

source: click here

This one talks of some fraudulent website hosted on WebAfrica?

source: click here

Oga Trae adds his own 2-cents in his piece titled: Peace of Mind.

For the record, the only sugar-coated review I found on the internet about Web4Africa is this controversial article by Chukwudi U, and the reason why is what I explained in this other article last year; 60days till the expiration of www.nairabutes dot com – update3: click here. Thats why I called it sugar-coated. Anyway, I have no qualms with Mr. Chukwudi, its just that I feel he played some politics with his write-up.

Anyway, just in case you want to know where all of the above really started from, read the The Original Story which I wrote last August 2009. Its been one year since I complained about Web4Africa’s Fraud, it unfortunately my complaint felt on deaf ears. With all my complaints on email and online, there was no single word of apology. While my complaints about the disservice were falling on deaf ears, the company was still reminding me to renew my subscription. They forgot they were not even providing me service in the first place. In the common Nigerian parlance, God dey!. Everyday is for the thief, one day is for the owner.

Just to repeat what I searched on google: Web4Africa SUCKS, and it does big-time.

Google Chrome and Internet Explorer browsers crashes only on remote desktop

my scenario is this:

comp1: I have Windows XP Professional installed with service pack-2. Its a P4 CPU, 2.6GHz with 1GB Ram. RDP is enabled on this machine.

comp2: a 2GB Ram, Pentium CPU T4200 dual core, 2GHz with Windows Vista Home basic installed.

I connect from Comp2 to Comp1 via RDP to do my work. The only thing that doesnt work remotely on comp1 are my browsers. In IE, I can’t open two windows or else the first crashes, then the second, even if what I wanted to open was a simple “hello world” search result on Wikipedia. Same thing in Chrome, once I try opening the second tab, it crashes.

If I were to use Comp1 directly, I mean, sit in front of it and work locally, I have no issues with the browsers. I can open as many Chrome tabs / Windows I want and even run IE simultaneously. The bottleneck is only the browser, via a remote desktop access. In fact, via RDP, I have no problems doing other things on Comp1, for example: opening up several documents in Microsoft Word / Excel / PPT, I can access files easily, Skype, Ymsgr are working all simultaneously etc., all work fine – and if I were to fire up my browser remotely, it crashes.

Kindly, If you have experienced this or have an idea what the issue may be and how to resolve it, please leave a comment.

Thanks!!