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Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'Australia/Perth' for 'WST/8.0/no DST' instead in /home/acs/public_html/blog/wp-includes/functions.php on line 111
Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'Australia/Perth' for 'WST/8.0/no DST' instead in /home/acs/public_html/blog/wp-includes/functions.php on line 112
March 18th, 2008 by
Kathie Thomas
Warning: strtotime() [function.strtotime]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'Australia/Perth' for 'WST/8.0/no DST' instead in /home/acs/public_html/blog/wp-includes/link-template.php on line 113
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I received a rather official looking document in the post yesterday and it was asking me to fill out in duplicate details relating to one of my domain names to help keep ‘the World Wide Web Register on the Internet up to date’.
Yeah, sure. Like they would be sending this out to millions of people to try and keep something like that up to date. All the same, many will fall for it because it looks so legit.
Small print shows you are giving permission to GT@P permission to print the data in the ‘next three annual editions’ of a Web Company Register and that you will pay the bill of 877 euros. The ‘contract’ comes into force one week after the signed paper has been returned in the post.
I did a search on this so-called register and found several warnings about this scam – it’s been around for years. Seems it’s taken this long to get through the ‘millions’ of domains for one to be sent to me. Amazing, I’ve had that domain since the mid 1990s.
I scanned the document so you can see what it looks like – the envelope is from Economique/Economy in France and there was a return envelope to use – I’ve already thrown it away but believe the address was Spain.
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Warning: strtotime() [function.strtotime]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'Australia/Perth' for 'WST/8.0/no DST' instead in /home/acs/public_html/blog/wp-includes/functions.php on line 35
Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'Australia/Perth' for 'WST/8.0/no DST' instead in /home/acs/public_html/blog/wp-includes/functions.php on line 107
Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'Australia/Perth' for 'WST/8.0/no DST' instead in /home/acs/public_html/blog/wp-includes/functions.php on line 109
Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'Australia/Perth' for 'WST/8.0/no DST' instead in /home/acs/public_html/blog/wp-includes/functions.php on line 111
Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'Australia/Perth' for 'WST/8.0/no DST' instead in /home/acs/public_html/blog/wp-includes/functions.php on line 112
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Warning: strtotime() [function.strtotime]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'Australia/Perth' for 'WST/8.0/no DST' instead in /home/acs/public_html/blog/wp-includes/functions.php on line 35
Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'Australia/Perth' for 'WST/8.0/no DST' instead in /home/acs/public_html/blog/wp-includes/functions.php on line 107
Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'Australia/Perth' for 'WST/8.0/no DST' instead in /home/acs/public_html/blog/wp-includes/functions.php on line 109
Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'Australia/Perth' for 'WST/8.0/no DST' instead in /home/acs/public_html/blog/wp-includes/functions.php on line 111
Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'Australia/Perth' for 'WST/8.0/no DST' instead in /home/acs/public_html/blog/wp-includes/functions.php on line 112
6:40 pm
Kathie – I WAS conned. Thought it was a domain name renewal for an old address that I want to keep. As I had not set up the domain and now have a different host, I took it as being a renewal for the original address. I am now being bombarded with demands for payment of 877euros, which as you know is in very very small print in a block of unrelated text. I have reported this to the ACCC through “Scamwatch”. BTW there are heaps going around, even my websdesigner got one last week!