An amusing and corrupt 419 scam offer

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Typically these offer a cut of millions and in this case black money!

"Dear Sir, Madam,

I have a friend whose father is a former minister in Turkey government , during the period when her father was a minister , her dad used his office to amass lots of wealth through kickbacks from oil and aviation contracts , but he has been indicted and all his assets seized locally and he has been restricted from traveling abroad .

Meanwhile he has $19 million dollars in Qatar and his daughter who is my friend is looking for a reputable businessman who can accommodate and invest this fund on the family behalf discreetly , the daughter will not be directly involve in the brokering of the transaction and will prefer to keep it confidential due to political reasons. As i said the fund is presently in Qatar and will be made readily available to you once every thing has been agreed . Can you handle it ? if you can then i will discuss with my friend who will introduce the broker in Qatar to you .

Yours Faithfully

Guru Dev Teeluckdharry"

Charity starts where the home is: stop bashing others before bashing yourselves

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Category: Cyber Security (Personal)

China, Russia, Syria, North Korea and Iran are commonly in the papers for physically attacking us, attacking us or our allies by the wire (the CAT5 cable or whatever type of cable you are using these days). The majority of people including myself agree with the above and I am not here to say these countries are perfect, far from it, they are all dictatorships.

Huawei has been in the media a lot lately though not for a few weeks now. Yes, Huawei and other Chinese manufacturers are not perfect, nor can they be fully trusted because of the government which is a one-party state like many other countries. We are bashing foreign companies and nation states for hacking us, but can we really blame them when our attitudes to cyber security and technical defences are poor?

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A thousand words of personal thoughts on something “controversial” and topical… Huawei (pronounced: wahwey!)

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Who assigns the word “controversial”, “mandarin”, “tzar” and “bizarre” to a hot topic anyway? The general people, central government politicians or the British media? The media I would say so they have something to report on!

Government confusion/mixed messages
Sometime ago the prime minister and/or the home secretary was moaning about WhatsApp aiding terrorists and how they cannot crack it which I do not buy fully. Which brings up two thoughts. 1. Politicians not knowing what they are talking about - possible. 2. Politicians lying - hmm.

In 2010 the government opened the “The Cell” in Banbury, an evaluation centre for products. At first there were concerns about it and in 2015 it got a good bill of health with room for improvements of course. In April this year Theresa May approved a deal to use them and in May there are various concerns. Mixed messages from politicians to say the least.

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