Author: Olly

  • Email Phishing Scam – uk-c.co – Very sneaky!

    Despite me going back to normal style blogging, I can’t help still being interested in attempted internet scams.

    A customer at work has asked me for help as they spotted a phishing scam that used their domain name, and upon closer inspection I spotted something I had not seen before. Perhaps this scammers undoing!

    I have changed the domain name to safeguard my customer.

    The emails read like this;

    Subject: Settle up this payment
    Date: Mon, 21 May 2018 13:14:53 +0200
    From: Kevin Playwright <kevin@playwright.me.uk>
    Reply-To: Kevin Playwright <kevin@playwright.me.uk-c.co>
    To: accounts@playwright.me.uk

    I need you to process a faster payment for a new beneficiary, payee details attached.

    I will send the documents once i’ll be at my desk.
    Leave a reply once completed or in case you get any problem while setting it up.

    Regards,
    Kevin Playwright.

    Sent from my iPhone

    The email is flawed in a few ways, firstly there is no-one called Kevin in this organisation, and secondly, there is certainly no-one called Kevin who carries the surname which happens to be the same name as the organisation Kevin is supposed to be part of.

    The next point which my customer didnt notice, was the reply-to address. As regular readers of my scam blogs will know, this is one of the first things I check as this often leads straight back to the crook!

    Usually, if the reply-to address isn’t the same as the send address (IE email account fully hacked) then it will be completely different – but in this case it was a hybrid!

    Let’s take a closer look at those email addresses.

    kevin@playwright.me.uk <- Sending address
    kevin@playwright.me.uk-c.co <- Reply-to address

    Notice the bit at the end of the reply to address?

    If we reverse that to make a domain name, the extension is .co and the bit before that, before the next dot is uk-c – which means that this email address is fake, but has been created to fool you into thinking you are replying to the original sender.

    Their domain is: http://uk-c.co

    If you visit it, you spot that its a mail server;

    They can apply this scam to any UK email address;

    test@domain.co.uk-c.co

    It would be so easy to miss.

    Be careful peeps, if something doesn’t feel right STOP and pick up the phone. Call the person who emailed you, call your IT mate, comment on one of my blogs – just dont brush it off as nothing.

    Stay safe peeps.

    PS I’ve reported them to ICANN hopefully they have their domain taken off them.

  • The Tim Westwood Challenge

    Ok, so since re-hosting the Original Tim Westwood Soundboard, we’ve been on  a bit of a Westwood ting!

    DJB found every westwood album ever, hosted on his very own soundcloud (what a legend!) so we have started from the top and are working our way through every single Tim Westwood album since 2001.

    Heavy hit, after heavy hit.

  • I’ll probably regret this…

    I had an hour or so to burn last night and I was on my laptop sorting some crypto stuff and tidying up my local backed up files, when I found a page that I had saved from the Wayback machine, it was a page of blogs from 2006 that I posted on here, but when this website was powered by some other software.

    I then realised that since its birth, this website had been made in roughly 4 different operating systems, and I know for a fact I didnt port posts from all of them, so I spent the next hour or so trawling the wayback machine from 2003 to the present day, ensuring all the posts I have ever made since 2003 are on this website.

    Now, I have a few comments missing and possibly one or two posts missing, but I’m pleased to announce that this blog is now an (almost) complete story of my life for the last 15 years.

    Many of the posts from the early days dont exactly read very well, it was very much a “weblog” back in the day, and some of the content is extremely incriminating but you know what – I have nothing to hide, im not ashamed of my past, and for that very reason I am today lifting the paygate that I’ve had on the website for the last few years. My posts are no longer censored.

    0lly.co.uk (or 0lly.uk more recently) for the last 15 years, in pure uncensored glory.

    Enjoy.

  • The Original Tim Westwood Soundboard BBC Radio 1

    Tim Westwood Soundboard

    Tim Westwood Soundboard

    We used to use this Tim Westwood Soundboard all the time, when we won a contract, when we made a website live… then one day, it vanished?!

    I scoured the internet and found a wonderful human who had made a command line Tim Westwood soundboard – very cool. Anyway, he had used the original SWF to get the audio files out of it, so I reached out to him and BLAMMO he had the original SWF! Big shout to Jacob, the big dog!!!

    EDIT: You may need to enable flash on this site to get it to work, in Google Chrome;

    1. To the left of the web address, click the Security Padlock or Info Icon. 
    2. At the bottom, click Site Settings.
    3. In the new tab, to the right of “Flash,” click the Down arrow and choose “Allow”
    4. Come back to this site and reload the page.

    [swf:https://0lly.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/soundboard_nogun.swf 600 500]

    The original Tim Westwood Soundboard was hosted here, but for some reason they took the main SWF down. I will host this soundboard until the end of time, UNDERSTAND THAT!

    Tim Westwood Sound Effects

    Tim Westwood Sayings

    Tim Westwood Klaxon