That could be a big scandal for Facebook which have not officially made any response or statements to this matter. This could simply mean one of 2 things:

1. Facebook account authenticity and security layer was bypassed for 50,000 fake similar accounts under the same domain with the same password.

2. Facebook have cooperated with Caira to create these accounts or at least have white listed their domain for one reason or another.

Here are the story details:

50,000 Fake Facebook accounts have been created under the email addresses 1@caira.uk.com until 50000@caira.uk.com all of them with the same password: “123456″. A huge campaign is going on now by the Egyptian political activists to take over these accounts, by changing their passwords and/or closing them, some people have also posted some profile pictures having Egytian flag representing that they took over these profiles.

I was able to verify this information by trying out the account 26357@caira.uk.com and the password 123456 (which i already changed), here is how the account looks like:

The wall of fake Facebook account of "Ahmed Ali" or also "26357@caira.uk.com"

The profile was pretty much empty except for mandatory information like name (Ahmed is a typical Egyptian male name), birth date, gender

Caira's Fake facebook account info

Account settings:

Fake Facebook account settings

http://www.caira.uk.com itself seems like a website which is selling electronics and home appliances but except for the homepage, the rest of the site is not working.

Although you can access their contact information via the web wayback machine More to come on this topic…

Although time passes one year after another, we gain new experiences in life, it seems that we will never get rid of these ideas but my only hope is that we stop passing them to the newer generations at least not to spread the infection

Myth #10: Turn off your car headlights

Here is my list:

Tip #10: Turn off your car head lights

When there is lighting in the street, there is no need to turn on your head lights, you should switch them off and save your car battery, turning on the lights is bad for your car battery.

Tip #9:  A/C are made to turn them on 16 degrees / full fan

Summer is hot, to overcome the hotness, when you turn on the A/C make sure it is 16 degrees, to have a quick effect, you can leave it like this or you can witch it to 18 degree after a while… Make sure you have a blanket and a jacket to use… of course if you are a tough guy you won’t need the jacket.

Tip #8:  When a car comes in the opposite direction turn off your head lights

Driving is “Art, Morals, and Consideration”, when you see a car coming in the opposite direction switch off your lights, if the other driver doesn’t respond by doing the same abiding to this protocol , give him a warning sign by flashing your strong lights 3 to 4 times, if no response is seen, you are allowed to punish the driver by turning on your head lights again

Tip #7:  Take off your socks before sleeping, to save your eyes

If you sleep with a socks, your eyes will hurt you next day.

Tip #6:  When you’re sick drink lots of liquids

Although this is a true medical fact, why does we get it from everyone we see when we have a cold? is it to show compassion? Not sure about you but I would accept something like “get well soon”…

Tip #5: Gym advice, you are doing this exercise in the wrong way

Probably you’ve been going to gym for many years, but just try changing your gym, do the same excise in front of the new trainer or the guy that loves to give advices to everyone because he a has a 150 KG muscles body…. They will tell you that you’re doing it in a wrong way.

Tip #4: Turning on you’re lights before it’s completely dark (15 minutes to dawn for example) is a disgrace 

Again this is my favorite thing, people will warn you, in order to save your battery, they will signal with their hands, talk / shout to you, and/or try to chase you in order to warn you that the most valuable thing you have in your life – the car battery – is in risk.

Tip #3: El fouta el zefra (a piece of cloth wet with gas ) will just clean your car in seconds.

if you don’t know it melts you car paint slowly so it becomes blurry and loses its shine after a while.

Tip #2: Breakfast (Optional) 12-1 PM, Lunch 4-6 PM, Dinner (Mandatory) 10-2 AM

This is a pretty good advice to gain weight as fast as you can.

Tip #1: It is okay to smoke hash but it is haram to drink alcohol

Seriously, some people genuinely believe about this…

To be completely honest my car does have some fine scratches from the car washing machines and from the door man who some times use a dirty towel to clean my car in the morning… but i am talking about fine scratches like this:

This kind of scratches are only visible under high lighting but don’t get me wrong the above image is not actually for my car and the scratches are not that intense but i just wanted to give an idea about what the fine scratches are… Don’t you agree with me that every car in Cairo will eventually have these scratches, even if you buy a nice KIA Cerato – The new Egyptians favorite, you’re gonna have a bunch of these very soon.

I am not talking about a kind of these scratches though:

This scratch is becoming like an Egyptian trademark on almost 98% of cars in Egypt with the exception of some S and E class Mercedes and 5 and 7 series BMWs!

Does anyone have recommendations about removing / polishing the fine scratches?

This explains why there is no car in Cairo that don’t have marks, scratches, and even a bumpy body!

So my new 30 days challenge is to keep my car scratchless for the next 30 days. It cost me three thousand pounds and 2 weeks to have my car repainted and i wanna enjoy this feeling for a while before i start to have the Egyptian style carvings on it.

So my plan is as follows:

1. Change my driving style and keeping more distance from cars.

2. Being careful but not too careful otherwise other drivers will be angry with me and will hit my ca on purpose!

3. Got a car cover that i will use during work hours, at least i will prevent the car from artists that want to draw long lasting pictures on my car with their keys and sharp objects.

4. Avoid going by car to places where i know i will not find a parking spot, like Mosadak street in Dokki or road 105 in Maadi! The more taxis i use the safer my car will be

well that’s all. I just hope i can make it… Not easy but possible…

Surprisingly enough, it seems that the campaign worked,  the reason i know this is that their online bill inquiry service could not handle all the incoming requests. It has been down for almost 1 week.

Telecom Egypt bill inquiry service down

Now if you try to hit their website, you get this error message:

Telecom Egypt bill inquiry service still down

The machine started printing without stopping empty papers with a smiley face!!!! a smiley face from the ATM! Can you believe it? could it be a software bug or a Virus software that tests the printer was running in the wrong time??

It’s more likely to be a virus, i suggest no one to use bank masr ATMs…

Update:

OMG, this turns out to be something that happened before in Singapore… A global virus

Update:

Sources in Bank Misr bank say that this incident is not a virus, it is a software that tests the printer of the ATM. Probably i was at the wrong place at the wrong time when they were testing the machine printer.