I’ve been getting some phishing messages on my Gmail lately.

All of them are well made, you won’t notice until you deeply look into the message and where it’s linked to. And here’s the one I received today, pretending PayPal.

Dear Customer,

This e-mail is the notification of recent innovations taken by PayPal
to detect inactive customers and non-functioning mailboxes.

The inactive customers are subject to restriction and removal in the next 1 month.,
Once you have updated your account records your PayPal will not be
interrupted and will continue as normal.
However, failure to update your records will result in account suspension.
This notification expires on 08 September 2008.
Please follow the link below
and renew your account information

Resolution Center
(This is liked to .de domain, and DON’T CLICK THIS)

Thank you for using PayPal!
The PayPal Team
Please do not reply to this email.
This mailbox is not monitored and you will not receive a response
—————————————————————-
Copyright © 1999-2008 PayPal. All rights reserved.

PayPal Email ID PP309-4486

Well made, huh?

Gmail is not recognizing these mails as spams, so it appears in your inbox. Just be careful when you receive these messages. Be sure to check all the outgoing links.

You may find this phishing database (PhishTank) useful.

Japanese Web 2.0 startup RocketStart, Inc. released a new online service called, ePiano.

ePiano is a flash based online virtual piano, where users can play with mouse and/or keyboard and share with other visitors of the site. Site visitors wil see others playing in real time as well.

URL:
http://en.epiano.jp/

Here’s an incredible Japanese baby talking sales on the phone.

Social Venture Partners Tokyo is organizing a network meeting on 23rd in Tachikawa, a city next to my home town in Tokyo.

If you are in Tokyo, wishing to participate, follow the link below.
http://www.sv-tokyo.org/080823nwm.html

I’m trying to participate this network event and gather Japan’s movement on social entrepreneurship.

However, my concern is about my panic disorder, which might make it difficult on the day.

If I’m allowed to take pictures, I’ll and post it here.

Google Map just started Street View service on Google Maps in Japan. I’d say nearly 80% of Tokyo is covered, and some other places of Japan are available too.

As always, there’re some inappropriate pictures taken accidentaly (couples getting into Japanese love hotels, teenage couples kissing on street, etc…), and some of them are said to be reported to Google to delete them.

This is Kuntachi, my home town.

大きな地図で見る

Some of Japanese animations, such as REIDEEN and AIR have used some locations in Kunitachi within their stories. You may find the exact location if you come visit this town.