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Scam Combines Patriot Act FUD With IE Bug
LostCluster writes "CNET, Reuters, and the AP are all reporting this morning about a circulating e-mail scam that claims that people will lose their FDIC bank account insurance because they are suspected of violating the Patriot Act unless they confirm their bank account information with a website. The scammers then use the already documented bug in IE that allows a site in Pakistan to get 'www.fdic.gov' to appear in the URL bar. Where's an MS patch when we really need one?"
I hope this isn't what Bill was talking about with The Secure Computing Initiative
...now we're outsourcing scams to India too.
Where's an MS patch when we really need one?
Being prevented by the DMCA?
Where's an MS patch when we really need one?
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Ha! Can't get my money - don't have any.
Paul
Wherever you go, there you are.
It's in the same place they put their concern for their end-users. Once you find that, let the rest of us know.
- A.P.
"Remember when the U.S. had a drug problem, and then we declared a War On Drugs, and now you can't buy drugs anymore?"
We are with the government. You are violating the patriot act gullableguy@aol.stupiduser.com. We just want you to go to this site and give us all your compromising information because you are violating the patriot act under provision 1234. Please go to this site otherwise you will lose your FDIC insurance coverage. Please disregard the fact that if you really were suspected, the US government wouldn't actually contact you by email, and that the patriot act doesn't have anything to do with the FDIC. Oh and we would have addressed you by name instead of your email account. Oh, and other obivious and logical stuff too.
Best regards,
A guy who isn't pakistani
The only way they could be any closer was if they touched.
Oh...wait, they do...
I lost money to a similar scam, except in my case the mail came in the form of a white envelope from the "Department of the Treasury, Internal Revenue Service." Short verison, there were papers in there wanting to know my social security number, how much I made, what I spent it on, all of the same information from my wife...and then it ordered me to give a percentage of my income to them or else they would come and put me in jail!
I did a bit of research and found that this money had been taken from me from some group of thugs called the Congress of the United States. Apparently, they took my money and I'm told there's very little chance of getting it back.
They've even got my employer in on the scam - now they are paying some of my paycheck directly to them.
Where's an MS patch when we really need one?
Honestly, the Patriot Act is so fucked up I doubt a simple patch will fix the problem. We'd have to throw the entire thing away and start from scratch. It's not worth salvaging.
And further more... What? Oh. You meant a patch for IE. Okay, I got it. My bad.
GMD
watch this
Man, I thought I was going to see some nasty Goatse-thing but then ... horror of horrors!! GEORGE BUSH!! AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!
That was rude, man...
To workaround this problem:
- Do not start messages with the word "begin" followed by two spaces.
- Use only one space between the word "begin" and the following data.
- Capitalize the word "begin" so that it is reads "Begin."
- Use a different word such as "start" or "commence."
Remember that, kids! Use "start" or "commence!"and my favorite...
Napster-to-go says "Fill and refill your compatible MP3 player", which is a lie. It's not MP3. It's WMA with DRM.
Thank God for the state of our Bushist economy!
Don't you have a SPEL CHECKER?
That's Bullshit economy