Archive for February, 2009

WARNING! New phising attack on the loose in NC

Feb 26th

Posted by dledford in random junk

This is just to alert people that the identity thieves and account thieves have started using a new tactic to steal your personal information and get access to your account. They have now started sending out random text messages to cell phones with the following (or similar) text:

From: auto-notice@ncsecu.org
Message: State Employees CU urgent notification:unusual activity. Please verify your online information at 877-336-6029

In this text message, the domain of the sender is valid, although the email is not, and the phone number does *not* belong to the credit union, no matter if they answer like it does or not. In addition, they are sending these text messages blindly. I don’t have a SECU account, and I got one. So they are spamming a *LOT* of people.

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Let me just say: OMFG!!!

Feb 10th

Posted by dledford in business

Did you know it costs over $370,000 (unless you can get waivers) just to file an application to sell a new drug for animal use? This isn’t for attorney’s fees, or consultant’s fees, those would be in addition to this. This is just the FDA user fees. And it doesn’t matter if your “new drug” is really a drug or something else like a whole food product, the classification comes from the simple question “Do you intend to market this to specifically address some form of ailment?” If the answer is yes, then it must go through the whole new drug process regardless of what it is.