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Scam Stop Education and Awareness
Where we are…
We have been living through interesting times at Scam Stop Education and Awareness of late. Scam Stop Education and Awareness is a private, non profit initiative, driven by Lynne Thackeray and myself utilising our own (somewhat meagre) resources and time combined with the generous support of our Founder Board Members like Steve Peters of GingerRhino web [...]
A GHOST in the machine…
We South Africans LOVE a great ghost story being of nature quite a superstitious bunch under the best of circumstances. Our popular culture is full of various boogie men, creatures from the dark and things that WILL go bump in the night if you are not careful….. But what if this fixation with the supernatural starts overflowing [...]
RICA and Identity Theft
We now have RICA in South Africa and we can all sleep a bit better knowing that crime using mobile phones equipped with pre paid SIM cards is now a lot more difficult for criminals. Right? Well maybe but then again, maybe not. I am on record as supporting the aims of RICA in making crime more difficult [...]
Trust, Fraud and Scams
I was recently doing some research and came across some startling facts from KPMG contained in The 2007 KPMG Fraud Report for Europe, Middle East and Africa. I thought that only crooks committed fraud. I was in the “business”, I committed major fraud myself and I met a large number of fraudsters who operated in a number [...]
“Foot in Mouth” ID Document FICA and RICA update
It appears that both myself and the Ombudsman for Banking put our feet in our mouths. I advised members on the 9th July to: ”My very simple advice is to refuse to give ANY person a copy of your identity document for any reason whatsoever.” Bad advice it seems. Well, great advice, but just not possible in [...]
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Posted by David Alexander on April 21, 2009 at 5:06pm
Important Security Warning
Original release date: March 17, 2009 at 9:08 am Last revised: March 17, 2009 at 9:08 am
US-CERT is aware of public reports of malicious code circulating via spam email messages related to bogus terror attacks in the recipient's local area. These messages use subject lines implying that a fatal bomb attack has occurred near the recipient and contain a link to "breaking news." Users who click on the link will be taken to a site posing as a Reuters… Continue
Posted by David Alexander on March 17, 2009 at 3:40pm
ANNOUNCEMENT: ARCIS FRAUD DISCOVERY & EXPOSURE CENTRE OPENS SHOP ON NING
This blog serves to advice on us opening the ARCIS FRAUD DISCOVERY & EXPOSURE CENTRE on Ning, a place for professionals, small businesses and private individuals to assist and collaborate in keeping our business' and private lives fre… Continue
Posted by John Dierckx on March 14, 2009 at 1:44am
Dangers of Medical Records being digitized
Many people are concerned about having their medical Records sitting in a database somewhere they have no control over. It is bad enough that most doctors’ offices still ask for your social security number on their forms, NEWSFLASH the HIPAA rules state that they and the insurance compani… Continue
Posted by Deborah Berchem on March 4, 2009 at 5:19pm
Social Responsibilty during communications
Communication is one the most gifted evlotution for human race and we are most advacned species in communications. Earlier evolutions given us the best technical ways to communicate with each other like language,papers,audios,movies,broadcasting,radios,satelites,phones,clothes,stones, tree leaves and more like that.
we have been partly successful to adopt these mediums and we have seen respect for the society in those mediums.
L… Continue
Posted by Pratyush Agarwal on February 27, 2009 at 3:42pm
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