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August 10th
Aug 10th
College Credits for Trolling the Web
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Encyclopedia Britannica Loses Patents
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Investigation of PrankNet
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PRINTABLE BATTERIES
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Poor Nigerian Scammers
Noone thinks about how the harsh economic times are keeping them from their expensive, yet, unearned cars.
“The Washington Post reports that online swindling takes dedication even in the best of times but succeeding in the midst of a worldwide economic meltdown takes patience, resolve, and hard work. ‘We are working harder. The financial crisis is not making it easy for them over there,’ said Banjo, 24, speaking about Americans, whose trust he has won and whose money he has fleeced, via his Dell laptop. ‘They don’t have money. And the money they don’t have, we want.’ US authorities say Americans — the easiest prey, according to Nigerian scammers — still lose hundreds of millions of dollars a year to cybercrimes, including a scheme known as the Nigerian 419 fraud, named for a section of the Nigerian criminal code. 419 is cemented in Nigerian popular culture. and the scammers, known as ‘yahoo-yahoo boys,’ are glorified in pop songs such as ‘Yahoozee,’ which gained even more fame after former secretary of state Colin L. Powell danced to it at a London festival last year.” –The Narrative Fallacy
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