New Orleans There are standard internet rip-offs, like the scams offering suckers millions being held just for you or my favorite recent one from the representative of the head of the International Monetary Fund. There are the popular ones where a friend is stuck in Timbuktu and needs you to wire money somewhere so they can …
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Trolling on Craigslist, A New 419 Internet Scam
New Orleans In many cities Craigslist is the modern go-to site for buying and selling, having decimated its competition years ago in what’s left of the print industry. It’s a clunky site with nothing fancy to it, but, hey, it’s free, and it’s popular, and stuff moves, so many of us are all over it …
Web Protest in Battle of the Titans
New Orleans The Stop On-Line Piracy Act (SOPA) at least means soup in Spanish, so there’s at least one good thing about it. Other than that it seems to be about big Hollywood and others trying to use poorly written domestic legislation in a ham-handed way to strike out at Russian, Chinese, and other foreign …