Modus operandi pencurian pulsa ini adalah sebagai berikut: anda di iming imingi hadiah atau sms-sms lucu lucuan, atau ramalan, atau dijawab oleh artis tertentu secara pribadi…

Untuk mendapatkannya, anda harus subscribe dengan cara mengetik ” reg (spasi) xxxx” (nomor empat angka) dan andapun akan dikirimkan sms-sms sesuai langganan anda.

Kadang kadang (banyak) yang tidak secara gamblang memberitahukan cara berhenti registrasi (misalnya ditulis kecil2) dan ada biaya 2.000an setiap anda DIKIRIMI sms.

Nah bila ada content provider yang curang, meskipun anda berhenti langganan, biasanya dengan cara ketik “unreg (spasi) xxxx”, content provider tersebut tetap mengirimkan sms dan terus menggerus pulsa anda.

Berapa sebenarnya bisnis content provider ini.. ? kalau saya ambilkan dari jakartaglobe, maka rata rata 1 content provider ini mengantungi 10 milyar pertahun.

The industry consists of about 400 content provider companies that employ about 2,000 people and generate around Rp 4 trillion ($450 million) in revenue annually from more than 15 million customers, Yusuf said.

Dari data diatas, maka bisa dikatakan setiap tahunnya, rata rata konsumen content provider ini harus membayar sekitar 266.666 rupiah pertahunnya…

Untuk menghindarinya pencurian pulsa ini mudah sebenarnya… jangan pernah subscribe dg cara mengetik “reg spasi” apapun. Saya beri tiga alasan kuat untuk tidak subscribe yaitu :

1. Tak ada gunanya
2. Tak ada gunanya
3. Tak ada gunanya

Maaf terlalu menggeneralisir… mungkin saja ada satu dua yang memang ada gunanya…

What do you call someone who understand the rules but consciously breaking it…? we have two names for them:

1. Criminals
2. Artists

the difference of the two is: The first one theyare breaking the rules for personal gain at the cost of others, while the second one they are breaking the rules without hurting anyone. You may be never be an artist if you break the rules without knowing it, you can however, become a criminal by breaking rules regardless you know it or not.

Breaking rules consciously is what make an abstract painting have a higher value than a 3 years old kid who paint randomly ( although sometime artist use a 3 years baby to paint their masterpiece).

Look at Picasso for example, he break most of rules, but still, we regard him as the greatest artist in century, he can paint according to the rules alright, but he chooses not to, he wants to paint his expression if it need to break some rules lets be it. This is what he wants doesn’t matter what others want.

Does he break all rules he knows…? I do not think so, he still maintain some rules to keep the color balance for example… so even he break rules, he knows exactly which one to break and which one to keep. Some who understand and can appreciate it, will be willing to  pay dearly for his paintings.

We can be an artist anywhere, in marketing, in class, in finance company etc… but we have two rules for it

1. We should understand the rules completely

2. Break the wrong rules, we can go to jail….

Jakarta 2.30AM. Damned you Insomnia… :)

How true, an independent trader told BBC what we should do in the time of recession.

“The first thing people should do is protect their assets, protect what they have. Because in less than twelve months, my prediction is the savings of millions of people gonna vanish. And this is just the beginning. So I would say, be prepared and act now. The biggest risk people can take right now is not acting.”

He talks lots of other (surprising) things,  The rest of the interview you can find it below, it’s worth watching: