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NZ Government in bed with the scammers
28 April 2026We have all received those scam emails or text messages purporting to be from a courier company or the Post Office and which claim that you need to pay a small fee before your package can be delivered to you.
Gullible folk simply click on the link and hand over their credit card numbers without doing anything like due dilligence on such messages.
Give the volume of packages now sent internationally it's not hard to see why busy people who may well be expecting a consignment to be arriving in the next few days would fall victim to this scam -- only to discover that their card details are now on the dark web or there have been huge charges racked up in their name.
Forums are Down
Damn, why is it so hard to keep any reliable forum capability going these days?
I'll be working to get the forums up again but it seems that it might not be a simple task. The hosting company has obviously changed something but now it's up to me to try and get PHPBB working with their new configuration :-/
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