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An Inventive Internet Scam Email ‘From’ Fed Head Janet Yellen

March 15, 2014 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

I received this absurd email in my inbox today that I thought maybe some of you may find amusing. It is purportedly sent by the new head of the Fed, Janet Yellen, of all people.

It is a scam email, a phishing expedition meant to get those slow of mind to pass on their personal information to a thief. But it is a rather inventive one, I thought.

Naturally the syntax and wording is just screwy enough to make it obvious to an educated person that it was written by a foreigner not conversant in English. But I thought the premise of the lie was pretty funny and just might be slick enough to get morons who were too busy mouth breathing in high school to pay attention to their studies to fall for it.

So, here is the letter…
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Bait and Switch: Law Goes From Protecting Your Email to Allowing Gov’t Into Your Email

November 20, 2012 by 1 Comment

-By Warner Todd Huston

A new law that was originally meant to strengthen the privacy of your email was recently re-written to allow government more access to your private emails and other digital files.

When H.R. 2471 went to the Senate, Democrat Senator Pat Leahy quickly rewrote the whole thing to allow federal policing agencies to have the power to search your digital files without a warrant.

As CNET reports it,

Leahy’s rewritten bill would allow more than 22 agencies — including the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Federal Communications Commission — to access Americans’ e-mail, Google Docs files, Facebook wall posts, and Twitter direct messages without a search warrant. It also would give the FBI and Homeland Security more authority, in some circumstances, to gain full access to Internet accounts without notifying either the owner or a judge.

This is, of course, an example of the government going too far for security. And you know the old saying so often attributed to Ben Franklin, “Those who would trade in their freedom for their protection deserve neither.”

Also, I can’t stress more, here, that is the Democrats doing this. This is not a GOP effort.
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