And here are some images of the purple carrot and yellow carrots we found at our local natural foods coöp.






I promise the soup tasted better than it looks. Even my in-laws liked it.
And here are some images of the purple carrot and yellow carrots we found at our local natural foods coöp.
I promise the soup tasted better than it looks. Even my in-laws liked it.
My wife and I like to eat a lot of non-standard items such as purple and yellow carrots and purple potatoes.
Here are some images of foods we’ve eaten in the last few months.
This post will be of particular interest to customers of Global Payments, Inc. I received an email which seemingly came from them, asking for account login details. Since I don’t have an account with them (and before this morning didn’t know who they were), I did some detective work. It turns out to be a phishing scam.
phish·ing/ˈfiSHiNG/
Noun:
The fraudulent practice of sending e-mails purporting to be from legitimate companies in order to induce individuals to reveal personal or confidential information, such as such as credit card numbers or passwords by directing a user to a fake email message or website.
Do not trust any emails coming from the domain “global-paymts.com”, e.g. “virtualT@global-paymts.com”. This is not the company “Global Payments, Inc.” (which itself is a valid company), but a phishing scam intended to get you to enter your real payment processor login data, which the scammers will then use to access your real account and take all your real monies.
A Google search did not turn anything up, so I did a little investigating myself. The HTML form in the email accepts your login info and sends it to a script at the fjnusoft.com domain. A “whois” search reveals that this is a Chinese domain:
Domain Name.......... fjnusoft.com Creation Date........ 2007-04-08 11:12:47 Registration Date.... 2007-04-08 11:12:47 Expiry Date.......... 2016-04-08 11:12:47 Organisation Name.... fu jianshida ruanjian Organisation Address. fujianshifandaxue ruanjianrencaipeiyangjidi Organisation Address. Organisation Address. fuzhou Organisation Address. 350000 Organisation Address. FJ Organisation Address. CN Admin Name........... lu qixue Admin Address........ fujianshifandaxue ruanjianrencaipeiyangjidi Admin Address........ Admin Address........ fuzhou Admin Address........ 350000 Admin Address........ FJ Admin Address........ CN Admin Email.......... lqx@fjnusoft.com Admin Phone.......... +86.59187248372 Admin Fax............ +86.59183560708 Tech Name............ jinfeng wang Tech Address......... BeiGuo East Residential District 26-102 Tech Address......... Tech Address......... Nantong Tech Address......... 226001 Tech Address......... JS Tech Address......... CN Tech Email........... sales@dns99.net Tech Phone........... +86.51385292710 Tech Fax............. +86.51385292710 Bill Name............ jinfeng wang Bill Address......... BeiGuo East Residential District 26-102 Bill Address......... Bill Address......... Nantong Bill Address......... 226001 Bill Address......... JS Bill Address......... CN Bill Email........... lqx@fjnusoft.com Bill Phone........... +86.51385292710 Bill Fax............. +86.51385292710 Name Server.......... ns1.dns.com.cn Name Server.......... ns2.dns.com.cn
Below is the email I received. Note that I use mutt, a text-based email reader. If you are reading your email on a web browser and are hit with this scam email, the text of the message will be the same as below but you will probably see the HTML form and some image(s).
From: "GlobalPayments, Inc"To: contact@ngmarley.com Subject: Account Update [-- Attachment #1 --] [-- Type: text/plain, Encoding: 7bit, Size: 0.2K --] Dear GlobalPayments Customer, Because we registrated to many frauds we decided to lock your Virtual Terminal account. To unlock it please download the file attached to this e-mail and update your login info. 2012 Copyright Global Payments ,Inc. [-- Attachment #2: Login_myvirtualmerchant.html --] [-- Type: application/html, Encoding: 7bit, Size: 2.2K --] [-- application/html is unsupported (use 'v' to view this part) --] [-- Attachment #3 --] [-- Type: text/plain, Encoding: 7bit, Size: 0K --]
update: Apparently the company Global Payments, Inc. are aware of this scam, as they have an alert on their homepage and a link to a more detailed alert/disclaimer here: http://www.globalpaymentsinc.com/Alert.html
Since learning about the black carrot about a month or so ago, I have been fascinated with the idea of growing and eating them myself. The world carrot museum probably has the most information about them. They are grown in Turkey, the middle east and the far east.
Black carrots are not the same as purple carrots, although they are in the same carrot family (eastern carrots). They contain anthocyanins, which gives them their dark color.
I am currently searching for a supplier of black carrot seeds and will post any updates to this blog.
Nathan X. Marley
black carrot enthusiast