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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?"
Because they're not. LOL, stupid leftie.
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George W. Bush in 2004!
Well, being a dark-skinned foreigner is one of several factors that may indicate a traveler may in fact be from a middle-east terrorist organization. All of the hijackers on 9/11 were dark-skinned foreigners. It'd be absurd not to take that into consideration.
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George W. Bush in 2004!
"Powerful and ambiguous" describes most Federal laws. The difference with the Patriot Act is the neverending partisan fearmongering and outright deception that Patriot Act critics engage in.
Yes, lots of these laws should be repealed, possibliy including the Patriot Act*.
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This scam deceives people into fearing the Patriot Act and tries to steal their money.
Meanwhile, leftists deceive people into fearing the Patriot Act to get them to vote for candidates. Those candidates will steal people's money by raising taxes. Then that money will be given to the leftists as government grants or funding for a particular leftist cause.
At least the scammers don't try to kid themselves into thinking they're the good guys.
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(* Without a lot of careful study, there's no way to make an informed decision on the Patroit Act. Half of the criticisms of it are simply untrue and most of the rest seem to be exaggerations. And the law was presumably passed to solve a problem -- but I've never heard a serious alternative approach to solving that problem.)