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     Caroline Forum Specialist Username: Caroline Post Number: 2399 Registered: 10-2000 Posted From: 84.9.191.165  Rating: N/A |
A press release has just come to my attention that is worth passing on this fine Sunday morning. Particularly of interest is that the people behind various homeworking scams might at last get their come-uppance. Recent reports reveal that the newly established IARPL (Internet Alliance Rogues Policing League) have former internet hackers working with them. The IARPL have legal powers that enable their hackers to access the websites of rogue homeworking scammers and to cut them off at their prime. Though they are not able to actually remove these websites they are able to change various images. It seems that the IARPL are able to find the scammers through specialist LOOF software that measure the number of exclamation marks proportional to the number of capital letters used on a web page. The LOOF computers have been hard at work and already identified 37,426 such websites in just seven days. Lyttleton James, who developed the LOOF software, assures that non-scamming sites who over-use exclamation marks do not need to be worried that their sites will be hacked by the IARPL staff although he says it might be worth checking your websites to make sure that you are not overusing the common scam features of exclamation marks and capital letters. Furthermore, James also warned that the new software was at the brink of identifying scamming sites just by the images commonly used on the sites. Most often pictures of dollar notes or stacks of cash are used as if to indicate that the general public could earn large amounts of money through this or that particular so-called business opportunity. The LOOF developers, in hand with the IARPL hackers, are able to replace these images with images of butterflies. Orlagh T. Tennison, deputy Commissioner of IARPL, explained that replacing the money images with images of butterflies was found to be entirely irritating to the scammers. And in one instance, a scammer was so taken by the beauty of the butterflies they have reformed, moved away from scamming and taken up Entomology. On the other hand, there have been cases where the butterflies have so enraged scammers that computer rage has taken place with the accidental hitting of a certain combination of keyboard keys which has enabled those scammed to be instantly refunded and the rest given to charity. Luckily the readers of the Homeworking Forum already know what to look out for and can laugh in the face of homeworking scams being peddled as real work at home. But this is a serious business and each day many people are scammed by these unscrupulous people wanting to make a fast buck out of us so we mustn't forget the serious side of this subject. (Click here for the Homeworking Forum main page if you are viewing this page without a menu to the left of the page.) Caroline (Tresman) Founder and Editor Homeworking.com | ||
| Kenweston Forum Specialist Username: Kenweston Post Number: 2316 Registered: 10-2002 Posted From: 195.92.168.166  Rating: N/A |
I have it on good authority that these people have some connection with a firm called 'Anagram'. Would that be correct? Ken Home Business Specialist Homeworking.com | ||
| Caroline Forum Specialist Username: Caroline Post Number: 2400 Registered: 10-2000 Posted From: 84.9.191.165 Rating: N/A |
I can't say that I know but I realise that I should have written that I wish the IARPL all the best with their endeavours!  Caroline (Tresman) Founder and Editor Homeworking.com | ||
| Caroline Forum Specialist Username: Caroline Post Number: 2401 Registered: 10-2000 Posted From: 84.9.191.165 Rating: N/A |
I've just been doing some internet research on this LOOF software which I find most interesting. It is Lyttleton James who has developed this software based on an idea of Orlagh T. Tennison of the IARPL. Orlagh has a psychology background and ancestry from the Netherlands. LOOF is the Dutch word for leaf which together with the idea for the butterflies, she saw as entwining the internet like a vine of leaves with butterflies on them eventually strangling the spammers out of existence. Well, that was the idea anyway.  Caroline (Tresman) Founder and Editor Homeworking.com | ||
| Manfriday Senior Member Username: Manfriday Post Number: 608 Registered: 05-2002 Posted From: 77.97.193.35  Rating: N/A |
Hi Ken you have it: No question.. It might be of interest to know that I came across Lirpa Loof in a DC Thomson Comic (The Dandy) around 1954. If memory serves the comic story line was centred around Korky the Kat Deja Vu ??? or Plagairism?? MF | ||
| Caroline Forum Specialist Username: Caroline Post Number: 2402 Registered: 10-2000 Posted From: 84.9.191.165 Rating: N/A |
Apparently, according to Wikipedia, Lirpa Loof is often a name used by a reporter at a certain annual event. Of this particular item, not only was the anagram book hacked to death but all the clues are there, which, I have to brag, is entirely my own work. However, I can assure that no plagiarists were hurt in the creation of this piece! Normal service will resume in due course and I shall return to my normal sane self. Caroline (Tresman) Founder and Editor Homeworking.com | ||
| Kenweston Forum Specialist Username: Kenweston Post Number: 2317 Registered: 10-2002 Posted From: 195.92.168.166 Rating: N/A |
Mel >>> Deja Vu ??? or Plagairism?? <<< I don't think it had anything to do with the plague, so it must be the other thing. Caroline >>> I shall return to my normal sane self. <<< Weeeeelll... We shall see! Ken Home Business Specialist Homeworking.com | ||
| Millysoo Forum Specialist Username: Millysoo Post Number: 2150 Registered: 10-2004 Posted From: 86.133.181.23 Rating: N/A |
LOOF? Just sounds a bit backwards, to me (says she with only four minutes left to the day - hehe). Cheryl Forum Specialist Homeworking.com | ||
| Millysoo Forum Specialist Username: Millysoo Post Number: 2151 Registered: 10-2004 Posted From: 86.133.181.23 Rating: N/A |
So to recap, thats O.T.T. with the IARPL LOOF? Does anyone think I'm spoiling the fun by spelling it out or are you as worried as me by the stoney silence from the rest of the forum?  (Nice one, Caroline) :-) Cheryl Forum Specialist Homeworking.com | ||
| Caroline Forum Specialist Username: Caroline Post Number: 2403 Registered: 10-2000 Posted From: 84.9.191.165 Rating: N/A |
Glad you spotted the OTT Cheryl - I quite liked that one. And then of course there is the initial letter of each paragraph..... Caroline (Tresman) Founder and Editor Homeworking.com | ||
| Humanoid Senior Member Username: Humanoid Post Number: 103 Registered: 02-2005 Posted From: 89.240.7.185  Rating: N/A |
Very clever  |
