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dipsydoodle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-25-09 05:42 AM
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Straw hit by internet fraudsters
UK Justice Secretary Jack Straw has been the victim of Nigerian fraudsters who sent out hundreds of e-mails in his name asking for money.

The e-mails claimed he had lost his wallet on charity work in Africa and needed 3,500 US dollars to get home.

Messages headed the Right Hon Jack Straw MP were sent to council bosses, government chiefs and others.

The fraudsters are thought to have hacked into computers at Mr Straw's Blackburn constituency office.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7908498.stm
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Anarcho-Socialist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-25-09 08:46 AM
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1. If they had received an email purporting to be from Tony Blair asking for money
they might have believed it.
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Albus Donating Member (290 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-25-09 11:27 AM
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2. and they tell us they can store all our ID data safely
Edited on Wed Feb-25-09 11:27 AM by Albus
tossers can't even keep their own emails secure.
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