Please Rob Me

Hey, do you have a Twitter account? Have you ever noticed those messages in which people tell you where they are? Pretty annoying, eh. Well, they’re actually also potentially pretty dangerous. We’re about to tell you why.
Don’t get us wrong, we love the whole location-aware thing. The information is very interesting [...]

Some tips on evaluating internet information

Introduction
More and more people are using the internet as one of their prime sources of information for their lives, business and as a source of dynamic intelligence and knowledge through the social networks, newsgroups and other web2 applications.
At the same time we need to be keep in mind that the “information explosion” does not [...]

ARE YOU AN ATTRACTIVE MARK, WILL YOU BE THE NEXT VICTIM OF A SCAM ARTIST?

Scam artists are always on the lookout for attractive “marks”. “Marks are people that are the target of a scam artist. While we all have a chance of becoming such a mark, some individuals or businesses are more attractive than others. Are you a gullible person?
Contrary to what many people think, not all victims of [...]

YOU HIRED THE FRAUDSTER YOURSELF

Introduction
Now it may not sound nice, but there is some truth in it: “you hired the fraudster yourself.” Things may have changed somewhat in recent times but not so long ago when I looked over some of the files I had been working on in recent years I found the following:

None of the clients [...]