This And That
thursday
2008-02-14 22:34
thanx,Rite2emee
Hello Everybody;
check this out on Snopes and it's true.
JURY DUTY SCAM :
This has been verified by the FBI (their link is also included below).
It is spreading fast so be prepared should you get this call.
Most of us take those summons for jury duty seriously a new and ominous
kind of fraud has surfaced. The caller claims to be a
jury coordinator.
If you protest that you never received a summons for jury duty,
the scammer asks you for your Social Security number
and date of birth
so he or she can verify the information and cancel the arrest warrant.
Give out any of this information and bingo ,... your identity was just
stolen.
The fraud has been reported so far in 11 states,
including New York , Oklahoma , Florida , Illinois , Texas and Colorado
This (swindle) is particularly insidiousbecause they use intimidation
over the phone to try to bully people into giving information by pretending they are
with the court system.
The FBI and the Federal Court System
have issued nationwide alerts on theirweb sites, warning consumers about
the fraud.
Snopes site: says this is real fraud.
www.snopes..com/crime/fraud/juryduty.asp
Teen used botnets to push adware to hundreds of thousands of PCs -
feeds.computerworld.com/~r/Computerworld/News/~3/235197247/article.do
'Friendly' Worms Could Spread Software Fixes
from Slashdot by Zonk
An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft researchers are working out the perfect strategies for worms to spread through networks. Their goal is to distribute software patches and other friendly information via virus, reducing load on servers. This raises the prospect of worm races — deploying a whitehat worm to spread a fix faster than a new attacking worm can reach vulnerable machines."
rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/235168871/article.pl
FBI: Beware of Valentine Day's Virus - eFluxMedia -
The best new Internet hoaxes -
feeds.computerworld.com/~r/Computerworld/News/~3/234767444/article.do
FBI site: warns about the fraud.
www.fbi.gov/page2/june06/jury_scams060206.htm
SECURE INTERNET
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