Don’t hang up … I want to sell you a loan? Aren’t you a foreigner?

Don’t hang up … I want to sell you a loan? Aren’t you a foreigner?

https://tw.forumosa.com/t/combating-mobile-phone-spam/221798/20 I answered a couple of weeks ago a call from a guy shoveling loans for a major credit card vendor in Taipei. Cold calling is really a tough nut to crack. Anyway, I told him I was at work, but he still insisted that he would talk to me. Poor guy! It’s a tough…

NOK: sell, sell, sell

I just tried to buy an app on Ovi store. It was a dismal failure. I had no feedback or response from the server saying what happened. In general: Ovi online is a very poorly built site with limited functionality, and lots of problems making standard operation difficult, if not at times impossible. the Ovi…

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Would you sell out your country for $25million?

It seems that at least one person wouldn’t. A prominent Taiwanese golfer refused this offer to become a Chinese citizen. And, boy, it was a lucrative offer. from The China Post/Asia News Network Taiwanese golfer Yani Tseng recently rejected a five-year NT$1-billion (S$42 million) sponsorship deal offered by a Chinese enterprise, which required her to…