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Jerome,
You raise a number of very good points.
Nowadays a good spam filter is a must. We all receive far to much spam & it just clogs up our mail box's.
It's so much easier to skim through your spam folders & then click 'Delete All'
It's a good idea to have your settings so that you cannot open any mail with click able URL's or containing pictures, as like Jerome points out, if your Virus protection is not completely upto date, you WILL get infected.
I must admit I have not checked on the virus directory today, but it does not suprise me about the severity level of that particular virus being raised.
The jury duty phone scam you noted is particulary nasty,who would question that to closely, if they received the same phone call?
The scandal with your police force (Tarnished Blue) is not fun reading, it makes Las Vegas seem like a nice law abiding city with no corruption.....
(your link does not work by the way, found it easier by just putting www.wreg.com)
As for the desperation for money, well there has always been desperation with getting money, all through the ages.
It's just now,that the Internet has opened it up for anyone, anywhere in the World, to con more people than was ever possible before. Now that the World Wide Web is so readily available to everyone, security must be tightened up somehow.
When it was first marketed it was going to be a boon to mankind, information would be available to all.
The trouble is, to many criminally minded people, have seen the 'benefits' for their 'trade'.
As for the last time I saw it this bad, I personally think that maybe, it's all the reporting & T.V coverage (& the Internet). We get so much information now, whether we want to or not. It might have been similar to this for many years, it's just now we know about it straight away, a case of to much information, but thats just my personal opinion.
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