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Six arrested over 'Nigerian email' frauds
News Six people were arrested in South Africa last weekend on suspicion of being involved in the infamous Nigerian email and letter fraud. Four of those detained were Nigerian, one was Cameroonian, and the sixth was South African.
[May 21, 2002, 14:13]
Psychiatrist 'gave millions to email scammers'
News An eminent US psychiatrist has fallen victim to Internet scammers who have defrauded him of millions of dollars, according to reports on Friday. Guy Gottschalk, the son of 89-year-old psychiatrist Dr Louis Gottschalk, has reportedly filed papers in...
[March 3, 2006, 11:55]
NCC grasps at straws to save telecom consumers in limbo- Part 1
Blog As at the latest count, about 20 million Nigerians are said to be subscribers to one phone network or another with interests varying from Globacom, Starcom, Multilink, to Celtel and so on. Without doubt, communication has become easier than before...
[March 10, 2008, 9:03]
Apple G4 Cube Firmware
Downloads The G4 Cube Firmware Update 4.1.9 will run only on G4 Cube models running Mac OS 9.1 or later from a local hard disk. If you are using Mac OS X on your Cube, you must start up from a local Mac OS 9.1 or later writeable partition (not a CD or...
[September 24, 2001, 8:00]
Had to happen
Talkback This had to happen and it comes in a week when it has been reported that LinkedIn has Nigerian 419 scammers using its site. That said, it's probably easier for social networking vendors to catch and disable such threats before they reach the user...
[April 22, 2008, 23:36]
Six arrested over 'Nigerian email' frauds
Talkback I believe the '419' fraud will persist until such a time that both the initiator and the 'potential receiver' are hammered with the full weight of the national/international aws, as should be the case.
[May 22, 2005, 0:19]
Six arrested over 'Nigerian email' frauds
Talkback Hi Everyone knows the 419 scam operates why do people persist in being taken ? it is genuiune naviety ? or in some cases greed and maybe prosecution for being taken might not be a bad idea. The scam only carries on because of the greed of a few who...
[June 6, 2004, 23:02]
Apple iMac Firmware
Downloads The iMac Firmware Update 4.1.9 will only run on iMac computers with slot-loading CD or DVD drives running Mac OS 9.1 or later from a local drive. If you are using Mac OS X you must boot from a local Mac OS 9.1 or later writeable partition (not a CD...
[September 24, 2001, 8:00]
Microsoft 'lends security expertise' to Nigeria
Talkback Then maybe they should first of all offer their expertise to another part of their own 'evil' empire. Over the last month, I have been receiving 419 emails from a succession of Hotmail customers, which I have dutifully complained to Hotmail about.
[October 15, 2005, 8:37]
Alternative title: Greedy people lose money
Talkback What is wrong with the world? All of these schemes work on the principle that at some point in the chain someone is doing something illegal and as a result you can get rich quick. If you think that you can sit back and get rich quick, go be a drug...
[April 14, 2007, 12:14]
Roget's Thesaurus
Downloads Looking for a better word? Town Compass presents the 1911 edition of Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases to spice up your speech and writing. With over 30,000 words to look up, and nearly 1 million synonyms, you'll have plenty...
[November 2, 2008, 7:00]
Block Evolving Spam, Secure your Network
White Papers New spamming techniques are upon us - 419 spam, botnets, CAPTCHA cracking - what's next from the "bad guys"? Spam remains the biggest email-born threat to businesses. Although most business have some type of Anti-Spam solution in place, spam...
[March 18, 2009, 20:16]
US Report: Infoseek's First-Quarter Loss Smaller Than Expected
News First Call in the US, expected the Internet search firm to report a loss of $0.10 per share in the quarter. Infoseek shares lost $4.19 (£2.50) per share, or 13 percent, to $28.44 (£16.92) ahead of the earning report.
[April 27, 1998, 6:00]
Britons fall victim to Internet scams
News Half of the UK's Internet-using community have been targetted with some form of online scam, according to a survey released on Tuesday. Research carried out by YouGov found that 48 percent of 2,000 Internet users surveyed had received emails aimed...
[May 3, 2005, 11:45]
Chip makers drop prices
News AMD Athlon and Intel Pentium III prices each fell much as 31 percent. AMD's largest Athlon price cut came on the Athlon 600MHz. It fell 31 percent, from $419 (£259) to $289 (£179). Intel's largest Pentium III price cut reduced the 550MHz Pentium...
[January 26, 2000, 6:07]
Fraud buck will stop with network operators
Talkback I read the article about the Nigerian fraud. I was victim of one. I tried to send a mail to the address you mention in the article to report it but I can't.spring39.demon.co.uk Please let me know if it is correct or if you have any other mail...
[July 13, 2006, 1:09]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Tuesday 21/05/2002 Our readers are jolly nice, but sometimes they get the wrong end of the stick. Young Graeme Wearden, superhack newshound extraordinaire, did a story today about various Nigerian fraudsters getting rounded up.
[May 27, 2002, 17:26]
SCO takes on US government supercomputers
Talkback Suprise, Suprise. Their stock has been on a downward slide recently so it was only a matter of time before they threatened legal action *again*. Do they really have the resources to take on IBM, Novell, AutoZone, Chrysler and now the US goverment ?
[March 22, 2004, 13:18]
More woe for 3G, says research
News European mobile phone network operators will fail to generate sufficient revenue from third-generation (3G) networks and face a steep decline in earnings by 2005, according to research released Friday.
[January 5, 2001, 13:52]
International push to fight high-tech scams
News Representatives of more than 60 law enforcement agencies and regulators from around the world gathered in London on Friday to try and formulate international cooperation against the rising tide of marketing fraud schemes, many of which rely on...
[February 27, 2004, 16:35]
