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Computer Users Anywhere, a must read! Prof. Hasan Yahya - Professor of Sociology  Yesterday I sent an article to Articlesbase for publication, about the latent and the manifest in goals topic. Such goals always have latent and manifest purposes. It may be made by local or international organizations such as schools, charitable, organizations, or even intelligence agencies such as the CIA, or NATO, etc., Today this topic is different,   My message I send to you briefly with the purpose of [ Beware to be fooled by email scammers]. Scam emails are becoming more and more sophisticated and innovative to make victims believe the scam. Today, Friday March 6, 2009, 7:31 PM I received this email. This is a very fresh style or type of internet email scam.Under the subject: Scam Victims Compensation Payment Award. The amout is: US$99,000,000 This is close to be real, but it is NOT. The full message is long but begins with this: Greetings to you, On behalf of the Obama's Foundation, we wish to notify you as a beneficiary of $99,000,000 USD in compensation of scam victims. They tell you to contact HSBC INTERNATIONAL BANK, United Kingdom Branch for verification and release of your $99,000,000 USD that we have deposited with the HSBC BANK,UK." Signed by Mrs. Celina Bricks, the Managing Director of the HSBC BANK,UK, and its private email and to be more deceiving ended by another person, named Dr. Caravan Marvis, [Names are faked] Coordinator, OBAMA'S FOUNDATION.
 You may see how smart the sender, while receivers are: undisclosed recipients. The message is disguised under a fake name person but important to bring your attention: Obama's Foundation, and a famous bank name no economist may miss, the HSBC. This strange, a nd different from another message I received several Days ago. It says:  Contact: Mr. Michael Smith email ..... for the claims of £1,000,000.00Pounds UK Award, 2009 Claims.Requirement, Names,phone number, Country and Occupation. The message was signed by Mrs. Jenifer (One n) Fox. They all ask you to give this information. Full Names, Contact Address, Direct Telephone No. and your Occupation. Of course they give you telephone numbers too. Several weeks ago, or months ago, or years ago, I can give you countless examples, but I think you got the idea and the message which says: Beware of the email scams, otherwise you will be the internet victim number 99,000,000. Have you got it? I hope so! (412 words) * Dr. Hasan Yahya is a columnist at worldfutures.info and TINA International News Agency, Chicago. |
