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This scam is more convincing than most so I thought it worth warning you all about it.
One of the things that makes this scam more believable is that you receive an email that looks as if it is from someone that you know:
?Learning,
We don?t speak enough. We could both be lots better off if we would. I?ll begin by letting you in on this. I?m certainly nowhere close to as bright as you yet I?m making a lot more working something like five hours per week from my home. You can see what I?m talking about once you do this a couple of days. msnbcnewstoday.net Whenever I read through this article I could not stop wanting to give it a try. Finally I just bit the bullet and now I couldn?t get more pleased. Get a picture of the first check as soon as you have it. You will definitely be very impressed at how much you?re going to be earning only one month afterwards. I really hope you?re gonna try this out. I?ve never tried a single thing like this before but the money keeps on flowing. Remember who told you!?
It looks as if they hijack the email account of someone you know and then send a version of this email to people in his or her address book.
Apart from the promise of making thousands of dollars a month, I was suspicious of this email because:
- My first name isn?t Learning.
- The person that this is email is supposed to be from has a better command of English than is demonstrated in this email.
- I had previously received other scam emails from this hijacked account.
The link given in the email takes you to a pretty good fake of a CNBC web page with a featured article about ?How A single Mom from Buckingham unlocked a gold mine and is turning huge profits from home?. Interestingly, this same stay-at-home mum came from Biggleswade yesterday. The web page?s URL - msnbcnewstoday.net - is actually registered to a company in the Ukraine.
Beware, CNBC isn?t the only website that?s been faked: other news sites and entrepreneur?s sites have been cloned.
The article says that you too can learn how to make thousands of dollars by signing up for a course with Profit Vault.
If you do a Google search for ?Profit Vault? you?ll turn up a lot of fake reviews which are designed to refute the claim that Profit Vault is a scam. Many of the reviews have ?scam? included in the title - not something a genuine positive review would usually do, but it does help these fakes appear in searches carried out by cautious punters.
Look a little harder and you?ll also find reports of people who gave their credit card details for a low-cost, five-day trial only to find it almost impossible to stop the high-cost, monthly charges which follow the trial.
More worrying are reports of people who bought health products online and found that without their knowledge they had been signed up for Profit Vault and had an additional charge made on their credit card.
28 April 2014
New Apple users are having problems because the instruction booklet does not make it clear where the Option key is. There is one reference to its location tucked away on page 53.
The Option key is, in fact, the ?alt? key.
The problem probably arose because older Macs have the word OPTION printed on the key which makes it considerably easier to find than squashed, stylised, mirror-image ?J? symbol which is to be found on newer Macs but not in the 'Hello.' instruction booklet supplied with them!
28 April 2014
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28 April 2014
A study suggests IQ is not stable during teenage years as was thought but shifts in step with changes in particular brain areas.
A study by the University College London urges caution in using the 11+ exam for grammar school entrance to predict academic ability.
IQ is thought to be stable across a person?s life. Childhood scores are often used to predict education outcome and job prospects as an adult. But the study suggests scores are surprisingly variable.
Sue Ramsden from University College London recruited 33 pupils aged 12 to 16, from high achievers at 11+ to struggling students referred for assessments. She tested their IQ in 2004, and again three to four years later, and also analysed their brains using magnetic resonance imaging. The average of all scores stayed the same across the years, but individual IQ scores rose or fell by as many as 21 points, a substantial difference ? enough to take a person of ?average? intelligence to ?gifted? status, or vice versa. ?On average it all washes out, but there are fluctuations from individual to individual,? said Prof Cathy Price, who led the study.
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28 April 2014
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28 April 2014
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28 April 2014
Jeanette Winterson, author of Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit, is to become a professor of creative writing at the University of Manchester.
She succeeds Colm Toibin, who completes his year-long tenure and Martin Amis who spent four years at the university and she will teach a post graduate MA workshop, MA seminar and lecture to undergraduates.
Winterson will also hold four public events a year at the universitys Martin Harris Centre, with renowned guests from the literary world.
Source
28 April 2014
Children are failing to pick up traditional values at school as teachers increasingly prioritise exam results over the development of character.
It has been claimed that the sheer demands placed on timetables are leaving schools with little opportunity to promote resilience, optimism, courage, generosity, empathy and good manners.
Anthony Seldon, the Master of Wellington College, Berkshire, said old-fashioned values were traditionally passed on to pupils through competitive sport, artistic performances and voluntary work in the local community.
But he warned that this was being lost in many schools because of the headlong pursuit of exam results to climb league tables and hit targets.
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28 April 2014
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