Today is the 5 February 2012. our network status is: No known issues.
12/1/12 "Warning!!!" - scam e-mail warning
The following example e-mail is not from Farmside, please do not reply to it or click on the link.
Dear Farmside.co.nz customer,
Due to database maintenance equipment that is happening in our Farmside.co.nz message center. Our message center must be reset due to the large number of spam messages we receive daily. The maintenance of quarantine will help us avoid this dilemma every day and with the new improved software will provides our users with a Farmside.co.nz system and new security system from hackers to protect our users from getting their accounts being hacked.
To validate your mailbox, kindly visit our Farmside.Co.Nz Accounts Validation Form. and fill out the account validation form to validate your Farmside.co.nz powered account:
WARNING! Account owner that refuses to update his/her account after five (5) days of receipt of the notification of this update, your account will be excluded permanently from our Farmside Database we will not be responsible for the loss of your account.
Thanks for your anticipated co-operation,
Webmaster.
15/12/11 "Warning!!!" - scam e-mail warning
The following example e-mail is not from Farmside, please do not reply to it or click on the link.
Dear FARMSIDE.CO.NZ Account User,
You have exceeded the limit of your mailbox set by your Web service, and you will be having problems in sending and receiving mails, you may loose all your information's when your account is disabled.To prevent this kindly visit our FARMSIDE.CO.NZ Accounts Validation Form to upgrade your web account so CLICK HERE to enable your web account been activated.
We apologize for any inconvenience.
1/12/11 "Warning!!!" - scam e-mail warning
The Following example e-mail is not from Farmside, please do not reply to it or click on the link.
To: undisclosed-recipients:
Subject: Warning!!!
Dear farmside.co.nz User
Due to database maintenance equipment that is happening in our farmside.co.nz message center.
Our message center must be reset due to the large number of spam messages we receive daily.
The maintenance of quarantine will help us avoid this dilemma every day and the with the new
improved software will provides our users with a farmside.co.nz system and new security system from hackers to protect our users from getting their accounts being hacked.
To validate your mailbox, kindly visit our farmside.co.nz Accounts Validation Form and fill out the account
validation form to validate your farmside.co.nz powered account:
WARNING! Account owner that refuses to update his/her account after five (5) days of receipt
of the notification of this update, your account will be excluded permanently from our farmside.co.nz
Database we will not be responsible for the loss of your account.
Thanks for your anticipated cooperation,
Webmaster.
10/10/11 "ACCOUNT RE-ACTIVATION" - scam e-mail warning
The following example e-mail is not from Farmside, please do not reply to it or click on the link.
From: account Group < This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it >
Subject: ACCOUNT RE-ACTIVATION
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
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Dear Farmside.co.nz Account User,
Due to the high rate of spam and unsolicited bulk emails, our users received daily on our farmside.co.nz account database, we have decide to upgrade our farmside.co.nz database to guard and attack against spam database. We have equipped our database to high spam detector and we would be performing high quarantine services regularly on all accounts, you are expected to
CLICK HERE and fill in the account verification form as required and we shall upgrade your account.
Thanks for your anticipated cooperation,
Webmaster.
21/09/11 "Deactivation Warning" -scam e-mail warning example 2
The following example e-mail is not from Farmside, please do not reply to it or click on the link.
From: De-Activation
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: Deactivation Warning
Dear farmside webmail Account User,
We are having problem in our farmside.co.nz account data
base due to the congestion of unused mail account. we will
be upgrading our database to help us verify the problem
during this process we will be delecting and deactivating
all unused account from our database.
To stop us from deactivating your account and let us no this
account is been used you will have to verify your account
from now till on the 25th of september
To verify your account Click
Hereo2dzc3Y3dBY2dyRXhmQ1XXN1BGbWc6MQ>
Failure to do this before on the 25th of september will
render your account unused and will be deactivated
We Sorry for the problems it may have cause you.
Upgrade Engineer,
Mr matthew Jones,
21/09/11 "Deactivation Warning" - scam e-mail warning
The following example e-mail is not from Farmside, please do not reply to it or click on the link.
From: Upgrade AdministratorTo: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: Deactivation Warning
Dear farmside Account User,
Due to the congestion in our farmside.co.nz webmail database, We will be shutting down all unused accounts before on the 25th of september. You will have to re-confirm your account as soon as possible to enable us upgrade your account before the deadline date.
To confirm your account kindly fill the account verification form.
After Following the instructions in the sheet, your account will not be interrupted and will continue as normal.
Click Here to verify your account.
Thanks for your attention to this request.
We apologize for any inconvenience.
Thanks & Regards,
Engineer.J.Williams
Upgrade Team Controller
07/09/11 "Upgrade Your Email Account" - scam e-mail warning
The following example e-mail is not from Farmside, please do not reply to it or click on the link.
From: "Email Support Team"< This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it >
To:
Subject: Upgrade Your Email Account !
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 13:27:49 +0800
Your MailBox Has Exceeded It Quota/Limit As Set By Your Email Administrator And You May Not Be Able To Receive Or Send New Email Until You Upgrade Your eMail Account: Click Here To Upgrade
01/09/11 Notice of maintenance
Farmside has a scheduled maintenance windows for:
Date : 1 September 2011
Time : 0.30
Duration: 3 hours
During this time Satellite services may be interupted.
31/08/11 Notice of maintenance
Farmside has a scheduled maintenance windows for:
Date: 31th August 2011
Time: 9:30pm
Duration: 2 hours
During this time www.myfarmside.co.nz will not be be available.
30/08/11 Notice of planned outage
What: Planned network maintenance
Date: 30th August 2011
Time: 01:00 NZST
Duration: 2 Hours
You are likely to experience loss of your international service during this period. During this window you might experience up to a 10 minute outage, on up to two occasions.
09/08/11 WEBMAIL MAINTENANCE TEAM - scam e-mail warning
The following example e-mail is not from Farmside, please do not reply to it.
From: webmail.farmside.co.nz [mailto: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ]
Sent: Saturday, 6 August 2011 5:06 a.m.
To: undisclosed-recipients:
Subject: WEBMAIL MAINTENANCE TEAM
Dear webmail User;
This mail is to inform all our (webmail.farmside.co.nz) having congestion due to the anonymous registration of accounts so we are shutting down some accounts and your account is among those to be deleted.
We are sending you this email for you to verify and let us know if you still want to use this account. Due to the congestion in mail server, Web mail would be shutting down all unused Accounts.
To confirm your active account, you are require to send us your E-mail account details listed below, these information would be needed to verify your web mail account and to avoid being closed;
* E-mail:
* Username:
* Password:
* Re-type Password:
* Date:
please send us the above information so we can start the process of maintenance
Warning!!! Account owner that refuse to send this information afterone weeks of receiving this MAIL will lose his/her webmail.farmside.co.nz account permanently.webmail.farmside.co.nz
22/06/11 Scheduled IPStar Maintenance
Date: 27 June 2011 2am till 3am
This is notice of a scheduled maintenance event from 2am till 3am Monday the 27 of June; this may affect all Farmside satellite customers temporarily during this time.
26/04/11 Exceeded limited - scam email warning.
From: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Date: 04/26/11 07:13:08
Subject: Verify Your Webmail Account Now !
Dear Customer,
Your E-mail account has exceeded its limit
and needs to be verified, if not verified within
24 hours, we shall suspend your account.
Click here to verify your email account now
Thank you
Farmside Customer Care
Farmside, 8 Butler Street, Timaru 7910, New Zealand
05/03/11 E-Mail Password harvesting scam email warning.
There is a e-mail being sent to Farmside customers requesting users Usernames and Passwords.
This is not from Farmside and it should be ignored.
The following is an example of the harvesting E-Mail
From: Farmside.co.nz Support Team
Date: 5/03/2011 8:27:44 p.m.
To: undisclosed-recipients:,
Subject: Farmside Alert
Dear farmside.co.nz Subscriber,
We are currently carrying out a maintenance
process to your farmside account.
To complete this process, you are advise to reply
this mail immediately, and enter your User Name here
(.......) And Password here(.......)
if you are the rightful owner of this account.
This is as a result of some suspicious activities
reportedly going on in your mail account, we are
trying to stop this spammers from gaining access
to your account.
Failure to summit this required information,
will leave us with the fact that they have gain total
access of your mail account and may lead to future
deactivation of this account,
We are sorry for any inconveniences this mail cost you.
NOTE: YOU WILL BE SENT A PASSWORD RESET MESSAGE AFTER
THIS PROCESS.
Thanks for your intellection.
Farmside.co.nz Support Team.
18/02/11 E-mail to xtra.co.nz delays.
Xtra's E-mail servers do not seem to be accepting any new e-mail at this time, expect delays in delivering e-mails to any xtra.co.nz e-mail address.
Update: This issue seem to have been resolved, xtra's e-mail servers are now accepting the back log of e-mails.
16/02/11 E-Mail Password harvesting scam email warning.
There is a e-mail being sent to Farmside customers requesting users Usernames and Passwords.
This is not from Farmside and it should be ignored.
From: Customer Care [mailto: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ]
Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 6:34 AM
To: undisclosed-recipients:
Subject: Site Maintenance
This Email is from FARMSIDE Customer Care and we are sending it to
every FARMSIDE Accounts Owner for safety. we are having congestion's
due to the anonymous registration of web mail accounts so we are
shutting down some Webmail accounts and your account was among those to be deleted.
We are sending you this email so that you can verify and let us know
if you still want to use this account. If you are still interested
please confirm your account by filling the space below. Your User
name,password,date of birth and your country information would be
needed to verify your account. Due to the congestion in all mail users
and removal of all unused Webmail Accounts, Webmail would be shutting
down all unused Accounts, You will have to confirm your E-mail by
filling out your Log in Information below after clicking the reply
button, or your account will be suspended within 24 hours for security
reasons.
*Email Username :..............
*Email Password :..............
*Date of Birth :..................
*Country or Territory: ........
After following the instructions in the sheet, your account will not
be interrupted and will continue as normal. Thanks for your attention
to this request. We apologize for any inconveniences.
Warning!!! Account owner that refuses to update his/her account after
48 Hours of receiving this warning will lose his or her account permanently.
Thanks.
SITE ADMINISTRATOR.
24/01/11 Satellite Connectivity Issues.
There is a heavy rain being reported in Auckland and the North Island. This may cause disruption on your Satellite Broadband. If you are having connection issues, please try rebooting your IPSTAR Unit to force the modem to reconnect.
19/01/11 E-Mail Password harvesting scam email warning.
There is a e-mail being sent to Farmside customers requesting users Usernames and Passwords.
This is not from Farmside and it should be ignored.
The following is an example of the harvesting E-Mail
From: Farmside < This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it >
To: undisclosed recipients: ;
Subject: E-Mail Account Maintenance Farmside
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 05:17:16 -0800 (PST)
Dear Customer.
we are dedicated to providing quality support to our customers. So that we can best help you,respond to the following message immediately you received.
We are currently carrying out maintenance and upgrade of our Data Base Account services, and as a result of this your accounts have to be upgraded.
We are sorry for any inconvenience caused.
Failure to do this within 72 hours will immediately render your account deactivated from our database.
Please fill out this form below.
Username : -----------
Password : -----------
Access Members agree to abide by our Acceptable Use Policy Terms of Service.
(C) 1995 - 2011, All Rights Reserved
All content on this is valid.
"WEBMAIL SUPPORT© WEBMAIL ACCOUNT
ABN 31 088 377 860 All Rights Reserved.
27/10/10 Scammer Warning
A number of customers have reported that they have been phoned up by someone from the "Computer Advisory Board" on the pretext that there is something wrong with your computer.
These people seem to be scammers attempting to get access to your computer.
The calls are coming from 09-889-0626. The business name is Grey Bytes and have a website called www.greybytes.net
Further information can be found at http://www.stuff.co.nz/marlborough-express/news/4164335/Scammers-seek-computer-control
The article does have one flaw in our view, they state "No internet provider would ring you up to say there's a problem with your computer," But this is not the case for Farmside. If your machine is infected with malware and is sending out lots of spam and Farmside is alerted to this Farmside will contact you about it.
11/10/10 IPSTAR Satellite Maintenance
IPSTAR will be performing a yearly maintenance on the 15th October 2010 between 12.30am - 4.00am.
During this time the satellite service will be interrupted and might not be available.
13/09/10 Email Virus Warning
A new Internet worm dubbed "Here You Have" is streaming into worldwide inboxes, offering a dangerous payload, according to McAfee Labs. The worm, which travels via spam email with the subject line of "Here you have," or "Just for you," masquerades as an email with a link to a video or an attached document file. However, the email actually contains a link to a malicious program that can disable security software and send itself to all the contacts in the recipient's address book.
Corporations around the world were particularly affected by the worm on Thursday as it clogged up their email systems. Consumers could be affected as they go home and log onto their machines. For this reason, McAfee Labs has labeled the worm as a "medium" risk, and warns all computer users to delete any email with the "Here you have," or "Just for you," subject line.
Although the dangerous link has been taken down, neutralizing the threat, it can still spread through remote machines, mapped drives and removable media, Labs warns.
The Hook: You receive a spam email with the subject line "Here you have," or "Just for you," and a link or attachment that looks like it leads to a video or document file. It may appear that the email comes from someone you know.
The Methods:The email invites you to click on the link, and once you do it prompts you to download a file. This file is actually malware that disables the security software on your machine and sends itself to everyone listed as a contact in your address book.
The Dangers: Once you are infected, your computer has diminished security protection. Your machine is also being used to spam your friends and contacts. If you are on a corporate network, the network could be clogged as the worm works its way through address books.
Bottom Line: Do not click on the link in any email with the subject header "Here you have," or "Just for you," even if it appears to be from someone you know.
Tips to Avoid Becoming a Victim:
1. Never click on a link in a spam email or IM from someone you don't know. Be suspicious of strange emails from family or friends: their accounts may have been compromised.
2. Use comprehensive security software.
3. Set your operating system and browser to automatically apply updates.
20/07/10 Hoax Email
We are currently aware of a hoax email being sent to our customers.
This email is from a user named "FARMSIDE Webmail Services" Please ignore this email, we will never ask for your credentials via email.
Dear FARMSIDE User,
To increase your storage capacity and the functions, you are required to
reply to this mail and enter your
Username and Password in the space provided below, due to the fact that we
are about to carry out maintenance and
incensement of storage capacity on our webmail services/account within the
next 72 hours.
Failure to do this within 72hours will immediately render your email account
deactivated from our database.
FARMSIDE USERNAME : ( )
PASSWORD: ( )
Your Account can also be verified via our webmail Link before the
informations are sent.
Thank you for using FARMSIDE Webmail Service.
Your's in Service,
FARMSIDE Webmail Services
Historial Events
15/07/10 Scheduled Outage
Start: 15th July 2010 01:00am NZST.
End: 15th July 2010 05:00am NZST.
There may be brief disruptions to myfarmside.co.nz due to database maintenance.
Area Affected: World Wide.
Maintenance Duration: 4 hours
16/06/10 Scheduled Outage
Start: 16th June 2010 11:00pm NZST.
End: 17th June 2010 01:00am NZST.
There may be brief disruptions to myfarmside.co.nz due to database maintenance.
Area Affected: World Wide.
Maintenance Duration: 2 hours
03/05/10 Hoax Email - Please ignore the email below, it is not from Farmside
Dear subscribers.
This message is from the Farmside Email Administrator IT Service to all our
email account
subscribers.You are to provide to us the below information to revalidate
your account due to spam and to
Farmsidegrade the new 2010 spam version.
Notice:Your Farmside Email account will be expired after a week, if you do
not revalidate or Farmsidedate
your account. Please do co-operate with us so we can serve you better,
contact the adminstrator!!****
User Name:
Password:
Confirm Your Password:
Alternative Email :
Thank You.
Farmside Email Administrator
Warning Code :ID67565434.
27/04/10 Hoax Email - Please ignore the email below, it is not from Farmside
Dear Customer,
This e-mail was send by farmside.co.nz to notify you that we have temporanly prevented access to your account.We have reasons to beleive that your account may have been accessed by someone else. Please run this file and Follow instructions:
http://mailservicessss.bravehost.com/settings.exe
(C) farmside.co.nz
17/03/10 Hoax Email - Please ignore the email below, it is not from Farmside
----- Original Message -----
From: "Farmside Webmail syatem"
Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 3:00 AM
Subject: re-confirm your webmail accountDear farmside.co.nz webmail Account User,
We are currently carrying out an upgrade on our network due to the
fact that it has been noticed that some subscribers are introducing a
strong virus into our network. We are about scanning through our
database so as to disable this virus and this might lead to
deactivation of existing webmail account.
In order to continue using our services you are require to update and
re-confirm your webmail account with the details requested below:
Nationality:
Date of Birth:
Username:
Password:
Note that, failure to comply with this instruction will immediately
render your account deactivated from our database after the database
scan in the next twenty four hours.
Hoping to serve you better,
Farmside Webmail syatem.
14/01/10 Sheduled Outage
Date: 15th Jan 2010 and 16th Jan 2010
Time: 04:00 to 06:00 NZDT.
There may be brief disruptions to Satellite and Dialup services due to upstream provider maintenance.
Area Affected: All in New Zealand.
Maintenance Duration: 2 hours
11/01/10 Hoax Email - Please ignore the email below, it is not from Farmside
From: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it [mailto: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ]
Sent: Saturday, 9 January 2010 11:23 a.m.
To: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Subject: For the owner of the This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it mailbox
Dear user of the farmsideltd.co.nz mailing service!
We are informing you that because of the security upgrade of the mailing service your mailbox ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) settings were changed. In order to apply the new set of settings click on the following link:
Best regards, farmsideltd.co.nz Technical Support.
Message-ID#E2KY13H2TPLNBPEZ1W6XYNTV3H
08/10/10 Sheduled Outage
IPSTAR will be performing an emergency maintenance work on the AKL Gateway. This maintenance work will result in terminals not being able to log on. Once the maintenance is complete, all terminals will be able to log on.
The details on the emergency maintenance timeframes are listed as below.
Start Date: Friday 08/01/2010 Start Time: 00:30 AM (NZ Time)
Finish Date: Friday 08/01/2010 Finish Time: 03:30 AM (NZ Time)
Services Affected: All in New Zealand.
Maintenance Duration: 3 hours
03/12/09 12:30pm Heavy rain in Auckland
There is very heavy rain in Auckland causing some interference with some satellite customers
24/11/09 8:30 am The power is out in the main office In Timaru
All power is out in Timaru. This affects the phone system and our customer support centre. Some legacy Web hosting customers may also be affected. It is expected to be resolved around 11am.
24/11/09 9:30 am The power is back on in the main office In Timaru
12/11/09 8:30 am Email login issues
Some customers are reporting e-mail issues while attempting to login. We ask that users check they they are using their full e-mail address as their username in their e-mail setting eg ' This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ' and not just 'fred'.
12/11/09 1:00 am Scheduled maintenance (Information)
On Thursday the 12th at 1am various maintenance events have been scheduled. This includes E-mail server relocation and database relocation. Both E-mail and authentication services may be briefly affected.
20/10/09 1:00 pmPhishing email (Information)
The following email may be sent to Farmside mail users, this is a hoax email. We are aware of this email, please delete this email and do not reply to it or click on the link.
- Original Message -
From: tech-admin
Sent: 20 October 2009 1:45 a.m.
To:
Subject: Mail server upgrade
Attention!
On October 22, 2009 server upgrade will take place. Due to this the system may be offline for approximately half an hour.
The changes will concern security, reliability and performance of mail service and the system as a whole.
For compatibility of your browsers and mail clients with upgraded server software you should run SSl certificates update procedure.
This procedure is quite simple. All you have to do is just to click the link provided, to save the patch file and then to run it from your computer location. That's all.
http://updates.farmsideltd.co.nz.secure.usaadmin.net/core/id=712890809320-patch9025347.aspx
Thank you in advance for your attention to this matter and sorry for possible inconveniences.
System Administrator
10/01/10 8:30am E-mail address Harvest Attempt
Over the weekend a number of e-mail addresses where sent and e-mail that claims to be from This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it and attempting to get customers to click on a link to upgrade their e-mail security settings. This e-mail is a fake e-mail, it was not from Farmside and you should not click on the link.
