Archive for April, 2008

Flash, Always Install the Latest Version

Posted in All Posts, Online Security, Privacy, Updates on April 30th, 2008

Adobe Flash Player is one of the apps that we recommend that users upgrade to the latest version ASAP, because of security vulnerabilities.

Check to see if you have the latest version at the following link:

 

http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_15507

The #1 Internet Scam

Posted in Scams on April 20th, 2008

The #1 Internet scam is the known as the Nigerian scam, or the 419 scam.  

This scam weaves a very sad tail of woe,  a tail that is able snare many victims.

These scammers spew out millions of emails promising large amounts of money in return for some kind of specified task, such as helping to transfer a large sum of money left by some dead relative.  But these scam  always require some advance payments from the victim.

These advanced payments are the whole point of these scams.  The scammer promises a share of some large sum of money, while extracting many smaller sums of money from the victim.  The victim never gets any money.  But still, this scam is surprisingly successful.

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