Robin and Linda Williams and the Blue Horizon Band in a concert to benefit local boy, Noah Jones!

Pinecrest High School
April 10, 2010 at 7:30pm
Robert E. Lee Auditorium
250 Voit Gilmore Lane
Southern Pines, NC 28387

http://www.robinandlinda.net/

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Carolina Crate and Pallet offers a variety of products and services, ranging from an on site heat treating chamber to stocking programs. They welcome the opportunity to provide your company competitive quotes and samples of the materials used for your packaging and shipping needs.

Just one day after the January 12, 2020 earthquakes that struck the island republic of Haiti, the FBI issued a warning to the public to beware of scammers. In the wake of the disaster, which reportedly killed and injured numbers in the hundreds of thousands, fraudsters set to work to con people into giving to fake charities.

On its web site (fbi.gov), the FBI reports that the fraudulent activity is being conducted by telephone, door-to-door, on the street and on the Internet. Even social networking sites such as Twitter and facebook are being used as tools to steal money from well-meaning donors.

What can you do to safely help Haitian earthquake victims or those of other disasters? Don’t ever agree on the spot to anything a stranger is asking you to do. Make sure you check out any charities you’re being asked to consider for a donation. You worked hard for your money, so don’t give it away to scammers. You can research charities online by using sites such as Charity Navigator (www.charitynavigator.org). No legitimate representative of a charitable organization will take issue with your wanting to take some time to learn more about his or her cause. Don’t be afraid to simply say no.

Bob Temme, Community Services Coordinator for the Southern Pines, NC Police Department, says that North Carolina residents should report suspected scams to the office of the North Carolina Attorney General. You can call 1-877-5-NO-SCAM or (919) 716-6000 or visit http://www.ncdoj.gov/ for help. Your local law enforcement agencies are also there to assist you if you’re not sure what action you can take.

If you believe you have been a victim of fraud from a person or an organization soliciting relief funds on behalf of Haitian earthquake victims, the FBI requests that you contact the National Center for Disaster Fraud at (866) 720-5721. You can also fax information to (225) 334-4707 or e-mail it to disaster@leo.gov.

You can also report suspicious e-mail solicitations or fraudulent websites to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center at http://www.ic3.gov.

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Answer:
The “poor” reputation may have been caused by one of the following reasons:

• Your email server contains a virus and has been sending out spam.
• Your email server may be misconfigured.
• Your PC may be infected with a virus or botnet software program.
• Someone in your organization may have a PC infected with a virus or botnet program.
• You may be utilizing a dynamic IP address which was previously utilized by a known spammer.
• Another customer of your ISP/hosting provider is a spammer, or has been reported as a spammer.
• Your marketing department may be sending out bulk emails that do not comply with the CAN-SPAM Act.
• You may have an insecure wireless network which is allowing unknown users to use your network to send spam.

Barracuda Networks is not attempting to block your individual emails in particular. The reputation system uses automated algorithms for determining its results — very similar to the anti-fraud mechanisms used for credit cards.

What you should do: Contact your Hosting or Internet Service Provider to inform them of the problem. If the IP address displayed in the message does not belong to ConnectNC, tech support will direct you to call the provider who owns that IP address, since the IP address owner will need to remedy the situation.

You should also request removal here:

http://www.barracudacentral.org/rbl/removal-request

Therefore, before making a donation of any kind, consumers should adhere to certain guidelines, to include the following:

Anyone who has received an e-mail referencing the above information or anyone who may have been a victim of this or a similar incident should notify the IC3 via www.ic3.gov.

Taken directly from http://www.fbi.gov/cyberinvest/escams.htm

Acrobat 9.2 and earlier versions are being exploited. There won’t be an update released to fix this matter until January 12th. Until then, to reduce the possibility of being infected, “disable JavaScript in Reader and Acrobat to protect themselves until next Tuesday, when Adobe ships the fix.” Computerworld Staff, Computerworld (2010, January 7. Large-scale attacks exploit unpatched PDF bug. [Electronic version].

Angel Creek Soap Works chose a lively design for their WordPress-based site. PayPal was used to integrate the sale of soaps.

All of Angel Creek’s soaps are hand-made of natural, organic ingredients. Angel Creek uses no color in any bars except the children’s soaps. They package our soap in three ways and use recycled brown paper tied with raffia around their rectangular bars of soap. Muslin bags are used for other bars, and they use clear poly bags for other shapes of soap.

• Monday is the busiest day of the week for email spam, Saturday is the quietest
• 12:00 (GMT) is the busiest hour of the day for spam, 23:00 (GMT) is the quietest
• Malicious bots have increased at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 378% since Project Honey Pot started
• Over the last five years, you’d have been 9 times more likely to get a phishing message for Chase Bank than Bank of America, however Facebook is rapidly becoming the most phished organization online
• Finland has some of the best computer security in the world, China some of the worst
• It takes the average spammer 2 and a half weeks from when they first harvest your email address to when they send you your first spam message, but that’s twice as fast as they were five years ago
• Every time your email address is harvested from a website, you can expect to receive more than 850 spam messages
• Spammers take holidays too: spam volumes drop nearly 21% on Christmas Day and 32% on New Year’s Day

Read more at the Project HoneyPot web site.

Now, more than ever, you should contact ConnectNC about spam and virus filtering for your company or organization.  ConnectNC also offers consulting to help you minimize the impact of spam and viruses on your network or PC.

Related articles:

• Someone used my e-mail address to send spam!
• Why you should subscribe to our e-mail spam and virus filtering service

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Facebook users are being targeted by a nasty new version of the Koobface worm — dubbed Koobface.GK — that compels its victims to manually participate in creating a new Facebook account to help spread the worm.

The attackers are posting malicious links on Facebook wall pages enticing folks to click on a cutesy Christmas video. Attempts to play the video turns over control of the PC to the attacker, says PandaLabs researcher Sean-Paul Correll. The victim next sees a Windows warning message requiring them to solve a CAPTCHA puzzle within three minutes.

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