From: CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA PLC
Subject: PAYMAENT NOTICE VIA ATM CARD
To:
Date: Saturday, 24 July, 2010, 1:31 AM

CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
Zaria Street, Off Samuel Akintola Street,
Garki 11, Garki-Abuja.
Our Ref: FGN/CBN/NIG/06/2009. Your Ref…………………

From The Desk Of Mr. Lamido Sanusi
Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)
Email: cbank24@gmail.com

SUBJECT: Immediate Release of Your FUND Via ATM CARD

Attention: ATM Card Beneficiary,

I wish to use this medium to inform you that your CONTRACT/INHERITANCE Payment of USD$10,000,000.00 (Ten Million United States Dollars) from CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA have been RELEASED and APPROVED for onward transfer to you via an ATM CARD which you will use to withdraw all the USD$10,000,000.00 in any ATM SERVICE MACHINE in any part of the world, but the maximum you can withdraw in a day is USD$10,000.00 Only

We have mandated SKYE BANK NIGERIA PLC, to send you the ATM CARD and PIN NUMBER which you will use to withdraw all your USD$10 Million Dollars in any ATM SERVICE MACHINE in any part of the world, but the maximum you can withdraw in a day is USD$10,000.00 Only.

You are therefore advice to contact the Head of ATM CARD Department of SKYE BANK NIGERIA PLC;

Contact Person: Mr. Anthony Ukpo,
Office email address: skyebkplc2008@w.cn
Open phone number: +234 7092432032.

Tell Mr. Anthony Ukpo, that you received a message from the CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA. Instructing him to send you the ATM CARD and PIN NUMBER which you will use to withdraw your USD$10 Million Dollars in any ATM SERVICE MACHINE in any part of the world, also send him your direct phone number and contact address where you want him to send the ATM CARD and PIN NUMBER to you.

We are very sorry for the plight you have gone through in the past years.

Thanks for adhering to this instruction and once again accept our congratulations.

Best Regards.

Mr. Lamido Sanusi.
Executive Governor,
Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).

Computerworld, 16 Jul 10: Colorado’s Secretary of State and other officials are warning the state’s 800,000 or so registered businesses to watch out for scammers who have been forging business identities to make fraudulent purchases from several big-box retailers in recent months. So far, at least
35 businesses in the state have had their corporate identities misused to open fraudulent credit accounts at retailers such as Home Depot, Lowe’s, Office Depot, Apple and Dell. According to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation (CBI), the scammers so far have made at least $750,000 in fraudulent purchases from Home Depot alone after opening up lines of credit there using forged corporate identities. Five people in California have been arrested in connection with the scam, said Robert Brown, agent in charge of the fraud unit at the CBI. It’s unclear how many other businesses may have been affected. But the problem appears to be growing, with several more groups likely involved in similar scams, Brown said. Since news of the corporate identity theft in Colorado became public, law enforcement authorities in Texas have reported at least one similar incident. The corporate identity thefts itself were possible because of what appears to have been a surprisingly wide open business registration system at the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office. As with every other state, Colorado requires companies doing business in the state to register details of their business. Like other states, the business registration details, which include the name of the registered agent of the company, its full local address and other information, are a public record that can be viewed by anyone. In Colorado’s case, however, not only does the state allow anyone to view the record — it also allows just about anyone to alter or update it.
The state site requires no username or password for access to a company’s registration information, which means that anyone with access to the site can make changes. The identity thieves used this hole to alter the contact and other registration information for several companies. According to Brown, many of the companies targeted appear to have been smaller and medium-sized firms and, in some cases, defunct companies. Once the registration information was changed, the scammers then used the forged identity to make online applications for lines of credit with the retailers.
Richard Coolidge, a spokesman for Colorado Secretary of State Bernie Buescher, said the state’s decision not to use passwords and usernames to control access to the registration data goes back more than 10 years. It’s designed to make the system easy to use and was put in place at a time when identity theft was not a rampant problem. Businesses can, however, sign up for an e-mail notification that alerts them to any changes made to their registration data. According to Coolidge, though there are no controls for editing the registration data, in Colorado it is a felony for someone to make unauthorized changes. Following the discovery of the scam, the state is asking businesses to be vigilant about their registration data and make sure that no unauthorized changes are being made to it. The state is also telling businesses to sign up for the e-mail notification system so that they can get alerted of any changes. For now, there are no plans to implement a username and password to control access to the data because the budget for that has yet to be approved. That will be discussed when Colorado’s legislative session resumes in January. Coolidge estimated that the state will need to hire between five and seven additional employees to handle password help issues if tighter access controls are added. According to Brown, state authorities were alerted to the scam earlier this year when a company reported being contacted by Home Depot about purchases totaling nearly $250,000 that had been made in its name. A review of the online credit application made on the company’s behalf was done by Citibank which underwrites the lines of credits offered by Home Depot. The review showed that someone had altered the company’s registration information and changed its location from Boulder, Colo. to a virtual office in Aurora, Colo. The owners of the virtual office in Aurora were instructed to forward all mail received on the company’s behalf to another virtual office address in Harbor City, Calif. The individuals behind the scheme used their Home Depot line of credit to make online purchases of a large number of household appliances including refrigerators, TVs and other electronic items. They also purchased a large amount of copper wiring from Home Depot. In most cases, the scammers made in-store pickups using “street urchins” to go into a store location and collect the items, he said.

Brown said that Colorado, as a precautionary measure, has implemented a system to alert authorities when a company’s address information has been changed or updated. That will let authorities match a company’s registered address against the addresses of roughly 10,000 virtual offices around the country. Companies concerned about identity theft need to monitor their registration information and understand what kind of public access their state allows to the information, he said. Companies should also consider becoming registering with organizations such as Dun & Bradstreet and Standard and Poor, which maintain reliable and up-to-date registration information and alerts companies of any changes. Don Childears, president of the Colorado Bankers Association (CBA), expressed frustration at the situation and said that a lot of it was enabled by the open access to registration data at the Secretary of State’s site. The scam has already cost retailers and banks substantial amounts and will end up tarnishing the credit worthiness of businesses whose identities were misused, he said. At the same time, the fraud was detected relatively quickly because of ID theft prevention mechanisms the CBA has put in place in conjunction with the CBI, he said. Source:
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9179251/Colorado_warns_of_major_corpo
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About 7 years ago I got a CCNA certification. That is a Cisco Certified Network Associate. I got to use the full scope of my Cisco networking skills one time for four months and then didn’t touch another router or switch for 7 years. So I lost all but the very basic switching & routing skills.

I decided to start slow and start from nothing. I think it was a good choice because I have noticed that the CCENT, Cisco Certified Entry Network Technician is about as exhaustive as the old CCNA. From what my CCNA, CCNP, CCIE co-workers/friends and instructors have told me, all the Cisco tests are exponentially harder than they used to be.

My goal is the get my CCNA back. After that, I am not sure what direction I will go in. The CCNP is in very high demand but like I said, I heard the tests for CCNP are HELLA hard.

For now, its a simple enty level Cisco networking technician. In the end I am certain it will increase my marketability.

CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA
;
From the Desk Of:
Mr. Tunde Lemo
Deputy Governor, Financial Sector
Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).

Attention: Ronnie Franklin

In regards to your funds transfer valued $2,500,000.00, Central Bank of Nigeria are certified with the verification and wish to inform you that your funds credit authentication affidavit was charged $2500.00 (TWO THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED UNITED STATES DOLLAR).

This funds credit authentication affidavit (FCAA) is a legal document implemented from the Federal High Court of Nigeria to make clearance of your claims on your behalf as a none-residence beneficiary under the signatory of our acredited attorney. The revenue is charged as 0.01% of your total claim which was calculated at the tune of $2500.00.

You are henceforth advised to make the payment by western union money transfer to the name and information of our cash receiving officer as indicated below:

RECEIVER’S NAME: ALLISON OKAFOR
LOCATION: LAGOS-NIGERIA
TEXT QUESTION: WHAT COLOUR IS THE SKY ?
ANSWER: BLUE.

Bear in mind that your total claim of $2,500,000.00 has been protected by the federal high court with a hard cover policy (HCP) which made it impossible for CBN to deduct the above fee from your total sum and be advised that after the receipt of the above revenue ($2,500.00) your funds credit authentication affidavit will be secured immediately and your total claim will be credited to your account as provided without any hitch.

YOURS SINCERELY,

Mr. Tunde Lemo
Deputy Governor,& nbsp;Financial Sector
Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).
+234-1-853-4593.
+234-802-582-4103.

I love plug-ins! I love them on Firefox, WordPress, Dreamweaver and now on Chrome. It has crossed my mind that some of these plug-ins could be created and distributed by very smart people with criminal or mischievous intent. But the reality of bad plug-ins didn’t hit me until I noticed a link on digg.com about Stealing Logins using Google Chrome Extensions. I am no programmer but understand enough to see how cleaver it is.

Basically, someone creates a innocent looking extension or plug-in, they distribute it and the innocent looking plug-in/extension sends your personal information to where ever.

How can a person avoid this?! I guess the safest way would be to not use ANY plug-ins and extensions.. but that is over kill.
I know that I am pretty paranoid about WordPress extensions/plug-ins but the open source community is pretty good about peer reviewing, testing and reviewing some of the more popular plug-ins. When it comes to software I depend heavily on reviews of others who have used the product. If there are no reviews (even on forums or dev/plug-in sites), I usually consider the app to risky.

Sometimes what I do is try the app/extension/plug-in on a site/blog I don’t care as much about. In the case of browser plug-ins, I use a single trusted browser with minimal plug-ins to do important sensitive/personal transactions. Most of the stuff I do on the web does not require so much scrutiny.

Unfortunately, there is always a risk with plug-ins, apps, and extensions. All we can really do is manage the risk, by being careful and suspicious.

Thanks Mr. Grech for the knowledge.

A guy who said he was from Charlotte, NC emailed me on yahoo personals and we were talking and all of a sudden he needed money for his interior decorator here. Being stupid, I sent 2000.00 and have every intention of getting it back. He is in Lagos, Nigeria and goes by various alias. One is James Curtis, John Owen, and Stephen Frank. I just found his name and picture on many sites. Be very careful. This will never happen to me again. I am going to the FBI and see if there is anything that can be done. He usually uses the email of stephenfrank85@yahoo.com and his supposed interior decorator is kimgreene02@yahoo.com. I don’t want anyone else hurt like I have been.

I was contacted by a scammer promising to repay me if i would send her money to pay the damage on her inheritance and that i would have it back in 24 hours. I was emailed documents showing the amount and the requirement to release it
It was phony and I will never see my money again

Beneficiary notice from gordon smith at gordonsmith4@gala.net this is to officially inform you that it has come to our notice and we have thoroughly completed an investigation with the help of our intelligence monitoring network system that ou legally won the sum of 800,000.00 usd from a lottery company outside the united states of america.

What Does it Mean To Poke Someone on Facebook? Its a button that allows you to send a sort of digital wave to someone else on facebook. That is it.
But apparently you can be arrested for it in certain situations.

For example, Mrs. Shannon D. Jackson violated a legal order of protection that had been filed against her when she sent a facebook poke to the person under legal protection. I am not sure if she thought this would be a funny joke or what, but whatever the case, she probably wasn’t laughing when she was sent to arrested. So if you are ever in Hendersonville, Tennessee with a legal order of protection you may want to reconsider poking anyone lest you end up getting poke in jail for merely picking up dropped soap.

2009 – ABC story on Facebook poke

Watch out for these e-mail addresses, Jenniferwilliams@yahoo.com, also sandy_lady64@yahoo.com , Sandrawallacekk@yahoo.com Sandrawallace@yahoo.com Tiffanywallacekk@yahoo.com