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Farrell Keough SSCoach Points: 17414 More actions · Answer 1

Gambino Crime Family pocketted ~ $650 million in Credit Card and Telephone Number theft last year.... I guess I'd better get a shredder too...

I wasn't born stupid - I had to study.

DSP-120308 Hall of Fame Points: 3959 More actions · Answer 2

And fresh from the Chicago Tribune!!

More than 5,000 Illinois residents are at risk after their personal data was compromised in a massive fraud.

David.Poole SSC Guru Points: 75906 More actions · Answer 3

In the UK we are bombarded with adverts for shredders at £xx.xx and everyone is looking at them and thinking "hmmm... that is pretty good value".

Call me a contrary old sod but a box of matches costs about 10p

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Frank Kalis SSC Guru Points: 111183 More actions · Answer 4

Wasn't there recently a sentence where they send some American to jail for sending Spam?

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DSP-120308 Hall of Fame Points: 3959 More actions · Answer 5

Frank,

As a matter of fact it was either the end of last week or the beginning of this week that they arrested a man for spamming IM of all things. Actually, I believe he was charged with attempted extortion.

Darrell

Frank Kalis SSC Guru Points: 111183 More actions · Answer 6

Here I found it:

http://www.google.de/search?q=Virginia+Arrests+Man+for+Spam+&hl=de&lr=&start=10&sa=N

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DSP-120308 Hall of Fame Points: 3959 More actions · Answer 7

I stand corrected,

The article I was referring to was for SPIM not SPAM!

http://news.com.com/U.S.+makes+first+arrest+for+spim/2100-7355_3-5584574.html

Frank Kalis SSC Guru Points: 111183 More actions · Answer 8

What is SPIM?

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Antares686 SSC Guru Points: 125444 More actions · Answer 9

I will say that I keep a credit card with a low limit for purchases where the card will leave my sight such as resturants. But low and behold a few years back my wife handed my bank credit card to someone who used a hand reader apparently and got my info. Unfortunate from them I am broke all the time so there order was a no go and I got notified by a local detective where the attempted use of my card occurred. I gave him all the details of my transactions before that time and marked where I suspected the occurrance took place. They did catch them as well. But what ticked me off most of all was they tried to use at a grocery store and the store let them use the card number without the card. The detective wouldn't let me know where it was and if he had I probably wouldn't be broke today cause I was miffed for sure.

As for spam I usually don't give a good account out. I have several email accounts which are mine thru places like hotmail and yahoo. They do pretty good knocking out the largest spammers but the best thing is I don't use my bandwidth. Occasionally my home accounts get ensnared so I just create another address with Road Runner, notify those I expect of the address change and delete the other address.

Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 734564 More actions · Answer 10

SPIM is spam through instant messaging. I've been hit a few times, mostly someone sending a sentence and a URL through.

Frank Kalis SSC Guru Points: 111183 More actions · Answer 11

Hah, next question: What is instant messaging?

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DSP-120308 Hall of Fame Points: 3959 More actions · Answer 12

Frank,

Wait till your kids are old enough and they will even teach you how to use it - mine taught me!!

It is real time chat sessions (MS Messenger, Yahoo Chat...).

Frank Kalis SSC Guru Points: 111183 More actions · Answer 13

On days like these I feel that old !!! Lots of horrible mistakes in my answers, not knowing such things like instant messaging and number crunching at work

Thanks anyway.

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