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Spammers using news stories to increase credibility


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In an interesting twist, I got a variant of the Nigerian Oil Scam today that uses BBC news stories to lend credibility to their story.

At first I thought that the links in the e-mail might be fakes like those used in phishing scams, but they appear to be genuine.

One might wonder what these folks could accomplish if they turned all this time and creative energy to more socially productive pursuits…

WordPress 1.5 released!


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Somewhere in the last few days WordPress 1.5 (Strayhorn) was released. This is apparently a pretty big change as they’re jumping versions from 1.2.2 (which is what is currently running our blogs). I’ll have to try to upgrade one of our blogs soon and see what things look like with the new version, but I suspect it may have to wait until the weekend.