Avoid scam with Marcus Evans

Those who read my blog for years now can remember, that I paid special attention to online scams. I’ve added special tag for this criminal activity which covers activites from phishing to hacking. The marcus evans scam website is fighting against business scam abuse and fraud prevention. A lot of useful information on this topic can be found there from scam prevention interest links to the latest news on scam which are frequently updated. The list of scam prevention sites also include conferences that may be of your interest. There is also a number of MARCUS EVANS EVENTS (websites) covering topis such as: fraud, scam, corruption, compliance, ethics, crime and security.

For those familiar with scams and on-line fraud this is an interesting source of getting more information on the subject. But if you are one of those Internet users who don’t know what scam means and what possible ways of on-line fraud, visiting this site is probably must.

The core idea of this conferences is to educate Internet users, especially businesses how to avoid scam, what are possible dangers and how to recognize them. Having knowledge that billions of dollars have been illegally acquired from companies and costumers with online scams is not enough to not become a victim of Internet fraud.

Best way to compare broadband in Australia

Some 50 years ago electricity was something that everyone accept it as must. You just must had it. Today in this highly developed IT world Internet connection is something widely accepted and not luxury anymore. I personally don’t bother using Internet on slowest connections speeds than broadband. Of course since many Internet providers offers different types of services, speeds, security and other specifications finding the best provider is not any task. Even if the money is not the question why pay more for same or when you can have extra services? If you don’t need high upload speed but you want fast loading pages, there may be one provider more suitable than other. One thing is for sure, when you compare broadband you need information of ISP offers and time to get through it. When you check the ISP plans for major 8 providers like in Australia you need more than time. And that is where iSelect can become your ultimate adviser when searching for best broadband plans with leading Internet providers. Give it a try, you may found better plan that you are on at this very moment.

RaboDirect - online bank

RaboDirect is the online savings bank of Rabobank Australia Ltd. and it is bigger than any other Australian bank. It has been established in 1898, their ultimate parent Rabobank, is one of the world's largest financial institutions. A very user-friendly interface of this online bank offers transparent overview of their services. With an online questionnaire they offer a simple and fast way to find what kind of service is best for you depending on what is your primary financial goal. You can online compare rates and calculate your savings. Easy and fast you get results in figures and graphs. You can open PremiumSaver account online in minutes. As they offer different types of savings accounts it is worth to go through their website and check the details.

I found the most interesting Managed Funds which give your savings a step up and since it is as easy as buying and selling shares online. The minimum investment is rather low (just $250) so it is suitable also for individuals. There is a range of leading fund managers you can select. Of course as an online bank, they provide online access to your portfolio where you can easily manage and monitor your profits.

Rio Tinto Limited @ Business Spectator

Those who were reading my real-time trading blog when I was ob peak full time trading in Forex can remember, this: information is worth the fortune. Financial news, economy news and even other major events can influence how currencies moves. Same goes for stocks and other financial institutes.

Presentation of Rio Tinto Limited on Business Spectator which is excellent website since it provides a free real-time, 24/7 business news and commentary, has come to my attention. Business Spectator provides timely and indispensable information for people involved in business, finance, and other the professionals. Investors can found valuable information on this website.

As far considers rio tinto, you can get all interesting information on this site. You can track company latest price, RIO stock price chart from today to up to 10 years scale, and from the content point of view there is a rich and up-to-date information about company news and company commentary. Interactive RIO stock price chart gives additional possibilities for all those interested in price changes and trends.

Adblock Plus for Chrome - must have extension

Most of experienced users among us heard about the termin browser wars. Many of web surfers probably noticed that those time when user had to choose between two browsers are over. Some time ago when I was trying to find a good, fast and reliable browser, one of options was Google's Chrome. At that time Chrome was my choice and the best choice. But compared to previous browser I used at time Chome had some limitation. Extensions for example were not fully developed and implemented at that time.

Nowadays Chrome is fully loaded with extensions. One of them is Chrome Adblock which makes generally faster browsing experience since it blocks all ads automatically, no distractions with help of very good and several sources with lists. Adblock Plus for Chrome is simply must have software (or better extension). And best of all this essential extension is free to use. Forget web ads, it works seamlessly on Facebook ads as well.

Magnalight - lights and more lights

When I visited the website www.magnalight.com I was really surprised. So many lights, so many types of them and a wast offer of different types of lights and other products. Magnalight by Larson Electronics LLC offers high quality and professional products. Golight spotlights, explosive proof lights, solar powered lights, LED lights, HID lights and more and more. Lights with remote control and real military equipment can be found on this website. If you need a lights which you plan to use as vehicle lights, work truck lights, heavy equipment lights, boat lights and equipment lights you must check Magnalight website.

All lights and other equipment have detailed technical information and description available with pictures and even videos in some cases for the most attractive products in shop. At the time when I was visiting this website Live support for customers was online. This web shop accept Credit cards and Paypal. Visti this website and buy Golights online.

What about...

creating new blog? Or maybe even two blogs. I have been thinking about this idea in the past since after all my experiments how to get money and profit from Internet showed two major income possibilities: sports betting and Forex. And for those who doesn't want to take risk, well for them, there is also less profitable but stable ways of profit like Banner advertising, writing reviews and similar activities.

So I have two particular type of blogs in mind: that about betting, where I could post my betting signal for football games and second one is about my forex system or maybe better philosophy which had made some profit in the past year on demo account but when it was applied to real money it failed. Recently my evaluation answered all those X variables previously unknown to me. So why my method doesn't work on real money account? Because starting with 100€ or $ is everything but safe.

I go on with my methods - ready to share all my knowledge with you. If you are ready for some profit of course.

What is lawsuit settlement funding?

Recently I found an interesting website which explains what is solid funding. It provides lawsuit loans for plaintiffs with pending lawsuit settlements and loans are non recourse. Lawsuit funding is recognized also by many other names such as lawsuit loan, pre-settlement funding, pre-settlement loan, lawsuit cash advance, gal funding, litigation funding, pre-settlement funding, lawsuit advance, case funding and many other variations, but common idea is that it offers financial help to plaintiffs waiting for a settlement, where there was none available before. I must say, that I haven't heard about such funding before, but since we live in a same world and we all had or will have some experience with lawsuits, this site found a place in my bookmarks.

To understand lawsuit settlement funding and how to get it, I suggest you to click on http://solidfunding.com/news/ where all details are explained in an user friendly way. The procedure for lawsuit funding looks easy, there are 7 steps and website promises that entire procedure can be completed in just 24 to 48 hours.

Signazon.com Christmas Signs review

A web site which really have a lot of interesting offers as it offers creating customized Christmas signs. And much more, as the title of this blog post shows. It is the most comprehensive overview of web sites which offer web hosting. If you search for a sign, this is the best page to use. You can use custom design or template to create your masterpiece for your sign. And much more. Actually I was surprised how low prices are for such custom designed signs as you are guided step by step; from choosing material of sign (huge variety of options from plastic to aluminium) to what will be the message on such banner. As expected, you can choose the size of banner. I like when information is provided in a simple way and this really is user friendly website.

Signazone made a great opportunity that everyone, business or personal have a chance to create his/her own banner.

Reading this site I am thinking about creating such a banner, but since Christmas and New Year are almost past, I will find some other theme - as from the website you can see there are plenty of holidays and special events covered with premade templates. Did I mention that bannerslook fantastic? Well, go and check your self, follow the link above.

Magicmercury Blog visited

Interesting Blog http://www.projectlinux.org by a writer from Sweden has something what one would expect from a serious blogger: a regular flow of posts. Author is focused on all aspects of Life: from pets to movies. A really wide topics covered, excellent reading.

Among hundreds of posts I found something from the area I found myself an expert: forex trading. Also post related to financial and insurance topics can be found on this blog. Soon there will be one year since this blog is online with nearly 300 posts it really give an impression of frequency.

I was impressed by something I haven't see in any blog visited so far; My disclosure policy. The author added a clear explanation of intention of his blog. The idea is very lucid and I would suggest to other bloggers with similar background to think about write down such disclosure policy.

Good work Magicmercury!

No blog posts doesn't mean nothing is going on

The title explains everything, I hope. Last months I have spend a lot of time especially on betting prediction application I was writing several times last year. The basic idea is that it works. My method which combines different concepts including some learned in the forex trading (having in mind Fibonacci approaches) is doing great. So far not all my bets were made with real money but on my Twitter account you can follow the history of my betting signal. Time and energy put into this betting project was rather high and slowly I expect it to generate some profit. It is about time my brothers would say.

Football bets are so cool

So from betting perspective, free demo signal will go on. I am combining now two strategies. One is using mulitples the other is laying on under 2.5 goals. Both strategies I use only for Premier League, I bet no other matches. Month ago I was running a weekend project where I tried to apply my knowhow to wider selection of European leagues. But the results were rather bad, so my decision for now is to stay on England Premier League only.

The short term plan is now to stay keep on sending out weekly signal - every week approximately 24 hours ahead of match. Since I bet with Betfair, my signal gives best results with this betting company. If you however don't have an account, please leave a comment here and I'll send you special referral code, which gives you the following: "Join Betfair right now, simply by clicking here. Once you've earned 210 Betfair Points we'll automatically put €20 into your account."

End of the year, perfect time for new start

Wow. I can't believe it, I haven't write a single post on my blog since May 2009. Uf. That's really long period of time. It seems that I will become more active soonish. But let me first explain how my projects are going. Actually I will focus 100% on betting in this post, tough I was testing for last 9 months a very good Forex system.

New start

A month ago I really had some hard time in my life and still going through. Additionally my programmer who really made a great work on my betting prediction application quit working with me. So at this moment, very now, I am at a very beginning. And very alone.

Yesterday I started to post my betting pics free online again on Twitter (there is a twitter updates widget on left column of this blog). After many many months, things were re-tested and reviewed and I got something close to holly grail. How my first implementation finished I wrote in my last post: Why my betting application didn't work out well. More about my plans on Twitter signal can be found on Free Forex and betting signal over Twitter.

What is most important now is how to go on:

• since I expanded collection of data for football matches from Premier League in England to all major leagues around the world, I am getting a lot of information much faster;
• more data means more picks, and at the same time, there is more days available to bet;
• soon I will start collect performance of my picks;
• for now, all football picks will be posted on my Twitter account http://twitter.com/th0rest , this will be so called DEMO period;
• picks will be published daily in the evening for the next day matches: example can be seen here: http://twitter.com/Th0rest/status/6771334277 .

Soon I will be back and explain how to use my signal in details, for those who are already familiar with betting everything would be clear from my Twitter posts. But if you have any questions, you are more than welcome.

Why my betting appliction didn't work out well

For the last two years I was working on online betting predictions. First I started with simple laying on horses with relatively high odd, bellow 1.6. The strategy behind was simple and can be found on various websites which are revealing so called "holly grail". The horses which are potential winners are often not winning, so laying on them brings nice profit. But it is not that easy and I was trying to use my statistical and other knowledge to build up an application, which would combine three major parameters: current odd (later on when Betfair added near price prediction, I used that odd), intelligence information (website which was predicting winners) and history results. First notion in my blog about this activity was in post Free Forex and betting signal over Twitter.

System was great when it got enough historical cases, i.e. around 100 events. But there was a little problem... Based on assumption, that I lay on odds 1.6 and lower, I ended laying on horses in interval of 2.5. - 3.1 (which was flexible of course, since my application was learning from new data). This interval is no longer high profit and my predictions seems to be very accurate. But if I missed it, there was major loss. This was no go, and after several months of posting my prediction on Twitter, I closed this story.


And went to next challenge, which was Premiership soccer games. Since I started it some months ago, it still didn't got enough data, but I got some very good results out of it. My strategy is betting on matches to have Over 2.5 goals. A very popular option of betting, since it doesn't matter who wins and scores, but only to have 3 goals on the single match. And surprisingly it happens many times, and with a little help of my application, results were even more accurate. So for next season I plan to rebuild my prediction application and get really profit of it. I am optimistic, as results shows high correlations with my signal, also posted on my Twitter page.

Lesson learned: methods and ways to make money on Internet are numerous. But everything must be tested first. And maybe most important thing: set your goals, and don't change them in the middle of a project. If you get bet results, try something else, from scratch.

ALERT: Liberty Reserve phising email

From August last year I haven't receive any phishing email from Liberty Reserve... Last one was on Liberty Reserve - phishing emails - watch out. Today I received new one. It really is annoying when I see such emails, which can be very dangerous for Liberty Reserve users. So if you have money on Liberty Reserve, do never click on any link from email or suspicious websites.

Even if it looks like it is directly from LR, it just looks like. Even if link seems to be correct, believe me, it is just text, the real URL address behind is different and will take you to hostile site where they take your credentials.

Here is how it looks the email I got (links removed of course):

IMPORTANT: Your LibertyReserve account has been suspended! (

Liberty Reserve to me

02:20 (19 hours ago)

Security Measures Dear, We have reason to believe that your account was accessed by a third party. Because protecting the security of your account is our primary concern, we have limited access to sensitive Liberty Reserve account features. We understand that this may be an inconvenience but please understand that this temporary limitation is for your protection. How can I restore my account access? Click the link below and confirm your Liberty Reserve account information, otherwise your Liberty Reserve access will remain restricted: https://www.libertyreserve.com/en/customer/login2/index.aspx Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter. Please understand that this is a security measure meant to help protect you and your account. We apologize for any inconvenience. 2002 2009 Liberty Reserve S.A. All rights reserved.

Web Hosting Geeks: name says it all

A web site which is online since 2004 has a lot to offer. The name web hosting geeks describes the best what this site offers. It is the most comprehensive overview of web sites which offer web hosting. And much more. Actually I was surprised how low website hosting prices are. I like when information is provided in a simple way: tables with price information and essential information on sites reviewed are transparently displayed. Web Hosting Geeks website goes even further, it offer much more than simple listing of web hosting. You can find web hosting awards, reviews and blogs.

Web hosting sounds familiar to everyone out here on Internet, but are we really aware of all traps behind? And there is also a question of security of web hosting. All those aspects are covered on Web Hosting Geeks site in blog categories section.

Reading this site I am thinking about moving my blog to some other service. Blogspot is ok, but comparing what you can get for small amount of money it really is a bargain.

Website hosting directory

If you look for a webhosting, look no further! Recently I discovered website hosting rating site, which has a comprehensive overview of webhosting sites. And it is more than just a rating site. You can find there reviews, rating, comparisons among different services. And actually this site really can come in handy. How many times my friends are asking me, where they can get good hosting. I remember that year ago I spend hours of googling to get a good price performance Windows hosting service. Now with this site, you really have everything on the same place.

Some may find useful directory of Hosting Awards 2008, but I found a diamond in CMS web hosts listing. Since Joomla is getting more and more popular even among less technical webmasters, here you can found best Joomla host in 2009. Of course other hostings listings including phpBB, Wordpress, PHPWiki and many others are available.

Finally you shouldn't miss articles section, which explains almost everything about hosting: from installation guides to articles such as The importance of Domain names, which gives a valuable information to everyone who is a content provider.

First post this year - it's a shame

Maybe one would think, that I disappear or something. Well, I am here and surprisingly well, but the time is still major constrain. After finding out in 2008 that HYIP is no go, I rediscover two possible way of relatively but stable income source on the Internet. It would be sport betting, namely horse betting and forex trading. In the time when everyone is talking about economic recession, those two ways are most promising.

As far considers forex trading I would say, that you stay out of anything what is called managed, signal or automatic. At least for me it doesn't work, and it didn't... and prolly it never won't. I plan to get back into manual trading, but it takes time to catch the skills back. I am so rusty, you can't believe that.

For betting - things are slightly different. Some may recall I was writing about this in Free Forex and betting signal over Twitter . This signal over Twitter actually is still available, but I made complete reconstruction of my reverse engineering application, so now, when I have time, around 1pm GMT+1 post a horse bet prediction - when available. As always I am full of plans, but not all are feasible. My idea is to apply the same mechanism on UK soccer league. What will come out of this, I will keep you posted.

But generally, since lack of time, I am much more active on Twitter, so follow me on http://twitter.com/Th0rest

My blog is under comments spam attack

Recently I noticed, that leaving my blog comments open without my authorization is not so good idea. I want it to have open to anyone to comments, but it seems that my blog has been posted on some list how to build up PR on Google. Stupid comments not connected with post topic and links to bizarre homepages and blogs.

Therefore I am forced to turn direct commenting off. Unfortunately that will means I will have to authorize every meaningful comment and that those comments won't be available immediately. I am sorry for this inconvenience, but I have to remain this blog's integrity.

Insuranc - get answers on insurance

One thing I love about the Internet is, that you can get fast answer on virtually every topic. So if you want to get more information on insurance, you should visit and bookmark Insuranc. Not only that they provide rapid and knowledgeable advice, at Insurance they deal with real life situations. Even tough the website is rather forum oriented is just what one who need to get certain information on insurance want to get. Simple and fast page with an easy interface to enter questions and get aswers - online.

As I mentioned, the site is new and there is nothing much online yet, but whose, who had answers got the answers. Site is structured by categories, one such example is Flood insurance .Two other categories on site are Homeowner's Insurance and Questions About Insuranc. One would think, that there is a typo in the name, but it is not. As mentioned on website, they removed letter "e" to make getting insurance easier.

Digital photos viewing

Nowadays most of us have a digital camera and in comparison to an old cameras we have several advantages. I personally found the two most most outstanding advantages in capacity and quality.

Quality is nice thing, it means that digital pictures are in better quality than those made with an old camera. And second - capacity means that we can take enormous number of digital pictures. Well, that can be also third advantage which just came up to my mind: you can watch or print digital pictures instantly.

So we have nice (big) and quality pictures ready to be viewed. I rarely use photo printer option, since it is kind of time consuming and you've noticed through my blog posts, that time really counts. So when I am showing my pictures to others, I usually use cable and connect digital camera to the LCD TV. For quick browsing through pictures I prefer to use laptop; it is just faster and more handy, but both options I use frequently.

Viewing digital pictures with those two approaches I really can get best out of the quality part of advantage: a really high definition pictures.