Feedburner Email Subscription
When I started this blog I and set it up I was just learning, and made a few errors. Ideally of course the blog should be on my main Site but never mind. Another problem I should have sorted out which has now been rectified was email subscription.
Blogger allows you to add a email subscription widget, what it didn’t say was I had to log into Feedburner.com and regsiter etc. So for months the widget sat on the blog, not doing a lot. Then while tryign to restart my personal one I worked out what you need to do.
So the easiest way to allow people to get an email reminder when you post to your blog is to login into Feedburner and do the below.
1) Go to my feeds
2) Add blog address in the box that says burn a feed right this instant. (tick box if it’s a podcast). and click Next.
3)Check with your blog for the address of the feed, for example blogs on blog spot look something like this. http://blogname.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss. Go Back to feedburner and complete the blog title and the feed address. Click Next.
4) Select what Stats you want it to give you about the number of people who subscribe to your site via email etc.
5)Got to publicize and email abusscrition.
6) Select Activate
7)Copy the html code and apply it using html widget on your web site.
If you like this post and want to know when others are added the pick one of the subscription methods on the side. The simplest being adding you’re email to the box, and you’ll be notified whenever I add to my blog.
Cheers.
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The Tax Refund that could COST a lot!
Today I got an email in my junk folder (I always keep an eye as occasionally some good emails do find their way into no-where land) the subject was “Automated Tax Refund”.
Tax Refund Notification
After the last annual calculations of your
fiscal activity, we have determined that you are eligible to receive tax refund
of 348.50 GBP.
You are require to submit the tax refund request using the tax
refund reference below and allow up 6-9 working days in order to process
itLINK REMOVED
Note : A refund can be delayed for different reasons, for example
submitting invalid records or applying after deadline.we apologise for any
inconveniences and thank you for your co-operation.
Yours Sincerely
HM
Revenue & Customs
1) How would they have my email address? HMRC usually send letters out in the post, even for a tax refund, to say a cheque is on it’s way.
- Google part of the email to see if anyone else has had this scam.
- Go to the site in question, i.e. eBay, paypal, your bank as you would normally and check your account if a message has been sent from them (Highly unlikely) there will be a record on the site.
I picked on randomly just to see what happens, you are then taken to what I presume is a mock up of your banks log-on screen and asked to log in.
If I had actually logged in, the sender of the mail would now have my log on details to my bank account and the ability to make payments to whoever they want (not that they would have got a lot from me haha).
No legit company would be offering a refund into your bank account like this without actually checking you are who you say you are (No details on the email or on the link).
Please read emails carefully, if you think it’s too good to be true, it probably is. Check if other people have had similar emails by searching the net. NEVER EVER give out bank details, passwords, or personal info unless you are certain you are on the official site and not a very clever mock-up or you could be stung.
PS. Apparently there is an identical mail being sent to Americans as though it’s from the IRS rather than HM Revenue & Customs. Beware the global Internet means we have Global phishing too.
