Only Beginners fall for online scams - really?


  1. Barman58
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    Only Beginners fall for online scams - really?


    Even the founder of the web has been caught out online

    Tim Berners-Lee admits to falling for online scam

    Web founder conned out of money by bogus shopping web site
    Phil Muncaster
    vnunet.com, 16 Mar 2009

    Tim Berners-Lee, the founder of the world wide web, revealed today that he has been a victim of online fraud.
    Berners-Lee, who is widely credited with inventing the web when working at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (Cern) in the 1980s and early 1990s, told The Daily Telegraph that a site he visited to buy a Christmas present turned out to be a fake.


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    Tim Berners-Lee admits to falling for online scam - vnunet.com
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  3. Romulinx2
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    Just shows it's not always the internet novices that get caught.

    Thanks for the info. :)
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  4. echrada
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    Unfortunately it gets easier and easier for these scam artists (thieves) to do these things and mostly if not everytime they get away with it.
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  6. jimbo45
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    Please PM me -- there's a very nice Bridge over the Thames I can flog you -- going really cheap at the moment. No decent offer refused.

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