| Credit card scam warning
This one is pretty slick since they provide Y O U with all the information, except the one piece they want. Note, the callers do not ask for your card number; they already have it. This information is worth reading. By understanding how the VISA & MasterCard Telephone Credit Card Scam works, you'll be better prepared to protect yourself. One of our employees was called on Wednesday from “VISA", and I was called on Thursday from “MasterCard". The scam works like this: Person calling says, “This is (name), and I'm calling from the Security and Fraud Department at VISA. My badge number is 12460. Your card has been flagged for an unusual purchase pattern, and I'm calling to verify. This would be on your VISA card which was issued by (name of bank) did you purchase an Anti-Telemarketing Device for £497.99 from a Marketing company based in London?" When you say “No", the caller continues with, “Then we will be issuing a credit to your account.
Taking responsibility
We don't let infants fly planes, why are we letting infantile cyber-citizens put us all at risk? Undeniably, the real villains are the online criminals: the phishers, the Nigerian scammers, the identity thieves that steal billions of dollars every year from individuals and organisations. Software companies selling leaky products also share blame. The unwitting henchmen But it's us - the users - that are facilitating these crimes. It's our stupidity, laziness, naiveté, ignorance and inattention that are allowing criminals to hijack our machines, and send out spam, viruses and countless other dangers to other innocent, ignorant users. We've seen with file-sharing and piracy lawsuits how record companies have successfully prosecuted computer owners, even when it turned out to be their children that had secretly carried out the piracy.
Banish The Bag And The Mail On Sunday’s Wrapper
BANISH THE BAG, commands the Daily Mail. And now “the Prince wages war on bags". The prince is Prince Charles who is teaming up with Booths supermarkets. Shoppers will be asked “Do you need a carrier?" Their answer will dictate their social status. Answer “Yes" – Fellow shoppers' lips purse, eyes narrow, mothers point, children cry “No" – Fellow shoppers nod. The cashier smiles. A tree falls stands tall in the Arctic Circle The Mail's campaign to ban plastic bags is gathering force. Anorak supports the plans. And just as soon as we've ripped the plastic cover from our Mail on Sunday, we will read more about it… Posted: 3rd, March 2008 | In: Tabloids. Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 .
McGreevey: No fraud committed in marriage to Dina
There is no reason to apply a higher standard of justice to them, and they are not above the law. I wonder if the courts can find both parents to be incompetent, and find other relatives or friends who will raise her with love and respect which she never had at home. To Wideoutsal That was a great comment. For some reason, I dont think that Jim has a problem swallowing anything. .
Get on board and we’ll move forward
But if it meant the difference between WFC surviving as a business or not you bet your bottom dollar I would have done it. So any worries of that occurring now are not required? Well it doesn't need that does it? And that is why we have tried to unlock the value in a different way. You can't guarantee anything in life but there are certainly no intentions to do that at this stage. Again, we are in a very precarious position. This club is losing £7,000 a week, which is a lot of money, and we have to make difficult decisions and we are making them everywhere, both on the pitch and off it. People are not going to like me and I know that and accept that. And at the end of that process other people are going to come in and reap the benefits but you need a strong person at the helm who is bloodied minded and is just going to do it and that is what I am doing.
Alumina profit slumps 15pc
ALUMINA has posted a 14.6 per cent fall in annual earnings and says it's likely to incur higher operating costs in 2008, due to rising energy prices and shipping costs. Net profit for calendar 2007 was $436.40 million, down from $511.10 million the previous year. Underlying net profit, which reflects the impact of certain accounting items, was $405.60 million, down from $569.40 million. The aluminium producer said its profit fell due to higher operationg costs incurred by its 40 per cent owned Alcoa World Alumina and Chemicals (AWAC) business and the impact of a stronger Australian dollar. Looking to 2008, Alumina said AWAC's costs were forecast to increase by about $US24 a tonne, due to currency impacts, higher average energy and caustic prices and increased bauxite shipping costs.
the undercover economist
Home computers have not only become cheaper but dramatically better, and failure to fully adjust for the quality improvements would overestimate the inflation rate and underestimate how much better off we are compared with previous generations. A highly influential paper by Yale economist William Nordhaus made the point forcefully. He studied not commodities like bicycles or spoons but a service: light. By tracking lighting technology from campfires to oil lamps to today's energy-saving light bulbs, he estimated that the real price of light had fallen 10,000-fold in 100 years. Partly because of Nordhaus' work, many economists believe that the official statistics on wages underestimate how much richer we have become. Light and computers are getting better at a rate unmeasured by inflation figures, but perhaps those figures err on the other side for different products.
AXA bars withdrawals from property fund
INVESTMENT manager AXA said overnight that it has barred redemptions from two of its main UK property funds for up to six months as it fights to avert firesales in the wake of a UK commercial property slump. The two funds -- the AXA Life Property and AXA Pension Property funds -- had a combined value of £2.2 billion ($4.95 billion) at the end of 2007 -- about £500 million ($1.13 billion) less than 6 months earlier, according to data from Lipper, a subsidiary of Reuters. It was unclear how much of the fall in the size of the funds was due to investors withdrawing money, given an average drop in commercial property valuations over the period of almost 12 per cent. AXA declined to give more details but a factsheet on its website showed its life fund lost 8.8 per cent in 2007.
Pret-à-rapporter: saving your pound
I've spent the past couple of weeks trying to train myself not to spend. January is always a dodgy month, but this year it seems exquisitely un-chic to be thinking about splashing out on new stuff when all we're hearing are tidings of financial doom lurking just round the corner. .
Justice Department sued by EFF over Google privacy official
The Electronic Frontier Foundation recently took aim at the Department of Justice, wanting all communications between Google and a former top privacy official who now works for the Mountain View-based Internet search giant. Specifically, the EFF wants to know more about why Jane Horvath was chosen to become the company's senior privacy lawyer, and what may have influenced the decision. .
Take a peek at “Battlefield Heroes”
Now we know what to expect. The first looks are out for "Battlefield Heroes," a cartoon-style first-person shooter for PC from developer Digital Illusions and publisher Electronic Arts, and due for release this summer. Like its predecessors, BH's fighting environment mimics the World War II-era European theater. Unlike its predecessors though, BH doesn't demand much nerve-wracking skill, so even gaming newbies won't feel intimidated. Because shooting isn't BH's main attraction — it's the avatar customization. BH will be Electronic Arts' first title under the company's new "Play 4 Free" strategy, in which gamers download the title at no cost but make "micropayments" to add customized features. Faces, legs, arms, torsos and uniforms can be altered in a myriad ways, as well as some weapons.
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