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Photo Credit: IT PVOIP BLOG 16 Jun 2011 08:01 Africa/Lagos Microsoft Survey Reveals Extent of Emerging Internet Phone Scam Criminals targeting English-language markets, expected to go global. PR Newswire LONDON, June 16, 2011 Bill Mullins Files LONDON, June 16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Microsoft Corp. today released findings of a survey* into an emerging form of Internet scam that targets English-language markets and costs victims on average $875 (U.S.). (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20000822/MSFTLOGO) The scam works by criminals posing as computer security engineers and calling people at home to tell them they are at risk of a computer security threat. The scammers tell their victims they are providing free security checks and add authenticity by claiming to represent legitimate companies and using telephone directories to refer to their victims by name. Once they have tricked their victims into believing they have a problem and that the caller can help, the scammers are bel...

The ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) popularly called by the derogatory name of Papa Deceive Pikin , in Nigerian pidgin English, is a notorious and monstrous plutocracy of kleptomaniacs, from their local wards to the corridors of Aso Villa, the State House in Abuja. The President, Alhaji Umaru Yar’Adua is exactly what I call him, Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves . As long as the notoriously corrupt ex-governors, Dr. Peter Odili and Chief “the thief’ James Ibori are still enjoying the protective custody and patronage of the PDP led government, I will never support President Umaru Yar’Adua, because anyone protecting criminals is equally a criminal. Therefore, Alhaji Umaru Yar’ Adua is as guilty as the criminal stalwarts of the PDP, because birds of the same feather flock together. And show me your friends and I will tell you who you are. As Jesus Christ said: By their fruits, you shall know them . If you are the chairperson at a conference of thieves, then you are the chairperson of the...