So that’s what a Nigerian Prince looks
like!
‘Nigerian prince’ email scammer arrested in Slidell
A 67-year-old Slidell man who served as a
go-between for an international team of scammers running a “Nigerian
prince” email scheme has been arrested after an 18-month
investigation.
Michael Neu, who is neither Nigerian nor a prince,
has been charged with 269 counts of wire fraud and money laundering.
Neu helped shuttle fraudulently obtained money to
his co-conspirators, some of whom actually do live in Nigeria,
according to the Slidell Police Department.
The ubiquitous scheme, which begins when an email
is sent to an unsuspecting recipient the scammers claim has been
named as the beneficiary in a will, is designed to collect personal
information that is then used to steal money and identities online.
There is some good stuff here. Not everyone
responds this way.
Jason’s Deli (www.jasonsdeli.com) is a family owned business known for high-quality food and catering services for over 40 years. It is headquartered in Texas and operates or franchises 266 restaurants in 28 states, with a reputation for award-winning quality and a strong relationship with our customers.
On Friday, Dec. 22, 2017, our company was notified by payment processors – the organizations that manage the electronic connections between Jason’s Deli locations and payment card issuers – that MasterCard security personnel had informed it that a large quantity of payment card information had appeared for sale on the “dark web,” and that an analysis of the data indicated that at least a portion of the data may have come from various Jason’s Deli locations.
Jason’s Deli’s management immediately activated our response plan, [No one mentions that they actually have a plan, perhaps because they do not? Bob] including engagement of a leading threat response team, involvement of other forensic experts, and cooperation with law enforcement. Among the questions that investigators are working to determine is whether in fact a breach took place, and if so, to determine its scope, the method employed, and whether there is any continuing breach or vulnerability.
… Customers or financial institutions with any questions should contact customer.service@jasonsdeli.com or 409-838-1976.
… We appreciate the dedication of our employees and others who are working during their Christmas break to respond to this matter and protect our customers, and we thank them and their families for their sacrifice. Most importantly, we appreciate the trust our customers place in us, and we regret any inconvenience that some may experience, especially during the holidays. Thank you for your support and understanding.
Nice of them to thank the employees like that.
If this is confirmed as a breach of their system,
this would not be the first time. In September, 2010, this site
reported on a malware
incident involving them.
A couple are new to me! But then, I haven’t
taught websites in years.
… The best thing about online HTML editors is
that they run directly in your web browser. Your web browser is the
best and most relevant tool for processing and
rendering HTML code. That is, after all, its entire purpose and
reason for being.
Which means that your web browser is best-equipped
for real-time previews of
HTML. When you write web markup in a standalone
editor like Notepad or TextEdit, you have to save changes to a file,
then load the file in your web browser, then review it, then switch
back to the editor for more changes, rinse and repeat. It’s a
clunky and cumbersome process.
An online HTML editor can dynamically refresh
itself as you write and
change the markup. There is no need to flip back and
forth between windows. You tweak the HTML on one side, the changes
automatically occur on the other side.
Be careful what you Tweet for. If you make Jeff
Bezos angry, he may initiate a hostile takeover bid for the Post
Office.
Cheap
Amazon shipping leaves the Postal Service ‘dumber and poorer,’
Trump says
President Trump on Friday called for the U.S.
Postal Service to raise the shipping rates that it charges
Amazon.com, the online retailer, in a deal that he said disadvantages
the federal agency.
… It's just the latest in a series of digs by
the president at Amazon, whose chief executive, Jeffrey P. Bezos,
owns The Washington Post.
Coming soon to a supermarket near you?
Kroger’s
mobile scanning tech will cut checkout lines in 2018
Kroger plans to expand use of technology that
enables customers to scan products as they’re put into the shopping
cart, eliminating the need to stand in traditional checkout lines.
… The customer then pays at a self-checkout
destination, greatly reducing the wait time since the items have
already been scanned (and potentially bagged).
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