A woman in Edmonton lost $1,300 to fraudsters posting as a mystery shopper company.

The company, called Regent Research, posed a consumer research firm, and the applicant was given an assignment. They sent a money order for $1,500, and asked her to wire the $1,300 to a fake cousin in the UK.

By the time the bank discovered that the money order was fake, she has already sent the $1,300 out, and forever lost them to the scam.

The company's web site displayed the Better Business Bureau logo, also fake.

Ann Khalafallah was the headmistress of E.G.C. from 1959 to 1982.

This is an article about her by her daughter, Nawal and her son, Kamal, in the Alex Med publication of the Library of Alexandria, .

Read it at issue 24, Feb-Apr 2009, pages 14 to 16.

The New York Times has an in depth look at NCR's decision to leave its 125 years of history in Dayton, Ohio for Atlanta, Georgia. Read: In a Company’s Hometown, the Emptiness Echoes.

NCR's former headquarters in Dayton was sold to the University of Dayton in December, to house its new research institute.

A British web site dealing with scams has published an interview with a convicted scammer.

One of the interesting tactics is to come back after victims who have paid, and posing as law enforcement and ask for a fee to recover the money already paid.

Here is Part 1, and here is Part 2.

Here is another sad case of a scam working. The victim paid money to the scammers. She also says that she borrowed the money in order to pay the scammers, and is now in double trouble.

The IP address is from Chad. I am not what currency she refers to: Indian Rupees?

Angelique wrote:

I am victim of the scam.

I have deposited R4.915.88, please help me to recover that money.

I have borrowed it. I need to repay it because the people are asking for it.

Here is another case of people confused and lost on the web.

Not only did he mistake my site for the BMW motor company in Germany, but they they have already paid 15,000 Indian Rupees to a scammer who claimed they are representing BMW. Now he is complaining to me thinking that I am BMW.

The reason for confusing my site with BMW's is the BMW 5-series car lottery winning scam article I wrote a while ago.

Here is the message I got:

A cousin of mine got a new laptop from his place of work. The laptop is a nice 14.4" HP with Windows XP on it.

He found that when he visited Facebook, the site looked a bit odd, and when he logged in, the URL was redirecting to various other URLs.

These include:

http://chips05.clanteam.com/

http://chips09.99k.org/pro.php

http://hosint.zymic.com/404/

حوار مصري جدا

يقال إن 87%من الشعب المصرى ساخطون على الحكومة المصرية - ما تعليقك؟

الـ13% الباقيين أكيد معاهم جنسيات أخرى.

هل لك أقارب استشهدوا فى الحرب؟

لأ.. عندى أقارب استشهدوا فى السلام.. "السلام 98" طبعاً.

ما وجه الشبه بين السد العالى وأمن الدولــة؟

الإثنان مصدر "للكهرباء"!!!

لماذا يطلق المصريون على زوجاتهم لقب "الحكومة"؟

لصعوبة تغييرها مهما تسببت فى كوارث.

أين يمكنك أن تلاحظ سوء نية المصريين؟

عندما يغنون للطفل البريء بمنتهى الخبث قائلين.. "يا رب يا ربنا - تكبر وتبقى زينا".

إمتى بتحس إن البلد حلوة؟

This is a collection of nokat on Upper Egyptians. Very kind and generous people by the way.

ليه الصعيدي بيحط جنبه منبهين ؟؟
عشان واحد يضرب والتاني يحوش

طب ليه الصعيدي بيحط جمبه كوباية شاي؟
عشان منبه

طب ليه بيحط كوباية قهوه؟
عشان لو الشاي مرنش

طب ليه الصعيدي وهو بيتغدى بيحط جمبه كوباية ميه فاضية وكوباية ميه مليانه؟
عشان ممكن يشرب وممكن ميشربش

و ليه بيحط ملح على راسه ؟
علشان يبقى حدق

و ليه بيحط سكر على الكرسى قبل ما يقعد ؟
علشان تبقى قعدته حلوة

ليه الصعيدى لما بيشوف البرق بيضحك؟
عشان الصوره تطلع حلوه

واحد كسلان حب يدهن جدار بيتهم دهن نصه وحط 3 نقط وكتب الى اخره

بلدياتنا نجح في انتخابات مجلس الشعب، ففي اول جلسة قاعد جنب واحد افندى فالأفندى عزم عليه بسيجارة مارلبورو، وبعد شويه بيسالوا إيه رأيك في الديمقراطية ياحاج؟؟.. فرد الحاج : والله أحسن من الكيلوبترا

واحد رخم نزل الشارع وقف قدام عمود ... قالوه عديني

مره واحد مسطول ماشي مع حبيبته في نص الليل فاشفت
ابوها فقالت يالهوي بابا بابا فقالها ماتخافيش قوليلوا اخوكي

واحد بلديات ضحك و نسى بقه مفتوح

اتنين بيلعبوا كورة واحد شاط والتانى اتحرق