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Watchdog relieves iPhone 5 scammers of £10k

Friday 8th June 2012 08:24 GMT Samurai Tony

Greed is not so good.

As the saying goes: A fool and his money are easily parted.

A hundred and fifty quid of Morrisons vouchers? Mor___ons?

A free iPhone 5? Before they are available? Click?

It is usually only people's greed that gets them into these scams, another saying is: if a deal is too good to be true then it usually is.

I have been offered many of these scams in my time and my common sense has ensured that my money has stayed firmly in my pocket and I end up amazed that people fall for them. </rant>

I do agree though with Lui-g that the owners of said businesses should be named and shamed.

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Friends fooled by Facebook Timeline 'removal tool' scams

Wednesday 30th May 2012 10:50 GMT Samurai Tony

Re: Facebook = New Microsoft

>> The problem here is that the Microsoft user base is very large and contains a lot of computer illiterate people who have a poor concept of online security. It's not hard to see how somone could send out some trojan purporting to disable some unpopular feature and people would actually install it.

>> I don't think you can blame Microsoft for this since it's largely out of their control. They can attempt to monitor and block infected users but they can't someone from installing software from a third party site through a browser on their computer.

Wow, that actually worked....

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