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Joe Eboh, a conman who was persuaded to prove evidence of his initiation into the Holy Church of The Painted Breast in a reverse scam Dear Honourable Friend. Those generous Nigerians who e-mail you with promises of a fortune are themselves being targeted in a new drive to deter cyber criminals. Millions of internet users have received messages offering them a huge financial reward if they help to release money trapped in a foreign bank account. And, although the majority of these e-mails are deleted, the fraudsters still find a sufficient number of gullible Britons to cost the country millions...

SNIPPET: "UPDATED - Wednesday, October 28, 2009: A "New Facebook Login System" spam campaign is in circulation, launched by the same botnet. Sampled updatetool.exe once again interacts with the Zeus command and control at 193.104.27.42."

Some scareware scammers building botnets, too (USA Today can only be linked to) Previous article: New twist on scareware locks up your PC

Just when I thought we weren’t going to see any spam campaigns related to the recent announcement of United States President Barack Obama being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, I was proven wrong. Spammers rarely disappoint when a juicy news story hits. It’s like attracting flies to honey. This spam campaign calls into question whether or not Barack Obama deserved to win the Nobel Prize and that significant fallout is being felt around the country as a result. The email then requests that the user click or copy/paste a link into their browser which will direct them to a website...

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Christ,The Begotten Son of God From Everlasting,was made son of Joseph and Mary according to the flesh by Divine Artificial Insemination. Rom 1:3 (KJV) Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh;  Mary was the young virgin chosen by God to bear the child Jesus, whose Spirit is of The begotten Son, whose going forths have been from old from everlasting...and Joseph, from David, from Judah, was Jesus's father in the flesh..fulfilling all prophecies concerning Christ Jesus. Jesus shared in the same flesh and blood as his brethren so...

Review Of The Seventh Chapter Of Signature In The Cell by Stephen Meyer ISBN: 9780061894206; ISBN10: 0061894206; Imprint: HarperOne The distinction between historical and experimental science is one that extends back over the centuries and at its core seems easy to grasp. Whereas historical science has as its focus events that have defined the history both of our planet and larger cosmos, experimental science has its eye on the current operation of nature.The 19th century philosopher William Whewell coined the term ‘palaetiological sciences’ to describe those fields of science, such as geology and paleontology, that have a historical perspective (1)....

IDG News Service - Criminals are waging a nasty online campaign right now, hoping that their victims' fears of the tax collecter will lead them to inadvertently install malicious software.The spam campaign, entering its third week now, is showing no signs of slowing down, according to Gary Warner, director of research in computer forensics with the University of Alabama at Birmingham. This one campaign accounts for about 10 percent of the spam e-mail that his group is presently tracking, he said. "This is the most prominent spam-delivered virus in the world right now," he said.Since first spotting the spam on...

Pit bull takes down 150-pound doe By Erin McClary C & G Staff Writer MACOMB TOWNSHIP — Deputies were shocked to find the scene of what a frantic 911 caller described as a pit bull attacking a deer the morning of Sept. 24. Responding officers couldn’t believe their eyes, said Macomb County Sheriff Mark Hackel. A 50-60 pound dog had a 150-pound doe pinned to the ground in a Macomb Township neighborhood near North Avenue and Hall Road (M-59). When one of the officers called the dog, he came. He even sat on command. Unfortunately, the officers, after realizing the...

I just watched the classic movie “High Noon”, AGAIN! Gary Cooper played a brave sheriff who brought law and order to his town. As one woman said, “He made it safe for a decent woman to walk down the street”. A recently released outlaw was coming back to town on the noon train to deliver vengeance against the sheriff who put him away. His gang of three arrived early to help their leader take out the sheriff. Fully aware of why the bad men were in town, the sheriff could not arrest them because they had not broken any laws....

PORTER, Texas -- A 3-year-old girl was critically injured Thursday when she was attacked by a pit bull in Porter. The child was visiting her aunt's house on Sweet Gum near Live Oaks. She went in the backyard to help feed her aunt's three dogs and that's when the pit bull attacked, according to the Montgomery County Sheriff's Department. The little girl was taken by Life Flight to Memorial Hermann Hospital. She's being treated for multiple puncture wounds and is in critical condition, according to Detective Mike Landrum.

Security: A Senate bill lets the president "declare a cybersecurity emergency" relating to "nongovernmental" computer networks and do what's needed to respond to the threat. Didn't they just collect our e-mail addresses?We wish this was just a piece of the fictional "Dr. Strangelove" that fell to the cutting-room floor, but it's not. It is a real piece of disturbingly vague legislation sponsored by Sens. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., Bill Nelson, D-Fla., and Olympia Snowe, R-Maine. Senate Bill 773 would grant the administration emergency powers (where have we heard that before?) in the event of a cyberemergency that the president would have...

After pit bull attack, Elkhart 4-year-old faces long road to recovery Originally printed at http://www.wsbt.com/news/local/55426367.html ELKHART — A little girl in Elkhart faces an uphill battle after she was attacked by a dog. A pit bull bit off 4-year-old Demonica Paul's nose last month. Family and friends are rallying around the family on her long road to recovery. “I am looking at a 4-year-old girl that will never be able to breathe out of her nose again,” Melissa Paul told WSBT News. Demonica Paul's parents have had a difficult time these last few weeks. After the pit bull attack in...

The 2009 Darwin celebrations were less than three years away, when my friend and colleague Dr Emil Silvestru, geologist and speaker with CMI-Canada, told me about an idea he had for a documentary film. He reminded me that most people don’t know that Darwin saw himself firstly as a geologist, and that his evolutionary theory was very much dependent on his geological beliefs about millions of years. The strongest influence on Darwin in this regard was...

Cambrian Explosion Caught on Film David Coppedge An explosion is coming: a devastating blast against Darwinism in the form of a dynamite new film from Illustra Media: Darwin’s Dilemma: The Mystery of the Cambrian Fossil Record. The Cambrian explosion, which Darwin admitted was the greatest challenge to his theory, has not been solved in the 150 years since The Origin. In fact, it has gotten much worse. This film does more than demolish a defunct idea. It offers the only alternative that does explain the sudden appearance of all the animal phyla: intelligent design...

Danville, VA-- Wednesday morning, Danville Police responded to the intersection of Kinzer Avenue and Central Street in reference to a pit bull dog chasing children who were at a school bus stop. Responding officers did not locate the dog. An hour or so later at 8:22am, Danville Police were again dispatched to the same location about a pit bull chasing people down the street. Officers arrived and found the dog running loose and learned that a neighbor had already used pepper spray on the dog. The dog approached one of the responding officers aggressively, but the officer was able to...

An 80 year old Rantoul woman is in the hospital after she says a Pitbull attacked her. It happened last week at her home. Eleanor McDonald broke her hip and her hand. Her son is looking for answers. McDonald's son Richard says his mother is fighting for her life. He says Eleanor was taking her dog outside. That's when she says a Pitbull came around the corner and knocked her down, driving her across the driveway. The fall broke her hip and her hand. She's got the bumps and bruises to prove it. Neighbors pulled the dog off. They say...

Rather than respond to their concerns and alter the plans accordingly, Obama continues to “stay the course” and ignore the will of the people he has pledged to represent. This is an unfamiliar situation for Obama; during the campaign he was often able to charm citizens into agreement with a fell swoop of his elegant rhetoric. Times have changed, though. President Obama will need much more than lofty prose to bring back a country that shifts against him more and more as the days wear on. He is becoming desperate. When the American taxpayer is footing the bill, desperate times...

Did Dems ‘FLAG’ Constituents by Turning in Concerned Voter E-Mails to White House? http://www.breitbart.tv/did-dems-flag-constituents-by-turning-in-concerned-voter-e-mails-to-white-house/

Ron Paul supporters have organized a Book bomb with the intention of getting his latest book to #1 on Amazon.com sales rank. The link contains no referer code. In the post-meltdown world, it is irresponsible, ineffective, and ultimately useless to have a serious economic debate without considering and challenging the role of the Federal Reserve. Most people think of the Fed as an indispensable institution without which the country's economy could not properly function. But in END THE FED, Ron Paul draws on American history, economics, and fascinating stories from his own long political life to argue that the Fed...

To most people, Canadian Pharmacy means just another spam e-mail message promising cheap Viagra pills that is deleted in microseconds – but to David Zimmer, it's a reputation nightmare for his business. ...About once a day, Zimmer says he personally takes a call from an angry victim of the fraudsters. They've paid money and received nothing in return. When they go searching for someone to contact and blame, it's the legitimate companies they find.

This morning, Representative Thaddeus McCotter (R-MI) was on FOX News with Eric Shawn to discuss the White House spamming scandal. The White House paid a company in Minnesota, GovDelivery, with taxpayer money to send out spam emails promoting Obama’s unpopular health rationing program. The email lists were actually provided by the White House although they originally denied this. Representative McCotter wants the White House to come clean on this latest scandal. Video: McCotter on the ObamaCare Spam Scandal

The White House hired a private communications company based in Minnesota to distribute mass e-mails, helping to shed light on how some recipients received e-mails in support of President Obama's health care plan without signing up for them, FOX News has learned.

Here is video from Fox News saying the White House confirmed that they used a private firm to send out mass emails pushing for ObamaCare from White House Senior Adviser David Axelrod. The site is govdelivery.comand Eric Shawn reports it appears they work for eleven government agencies in sending out mass emails. When first challenged, the White House would not even admit anyone was receiving unsolicited emails. Once confronted with the evidence, the White House finally admitted doing it, but blamed "third-party" organizations for giving them email addresses of people who had not signed up to receive them. Now they...

Fox identified the private company responsible for sending the spam email from Axelrod and Obama. They are called GovDelivery.com I sent the spam firm an email requesting to opt out of their distribution lists. I don't know if that will work or not. Does the Do Not Call rule apply to email spammers? http://www.govdelivery.com/contact

The White House hired a private communications company based in Minnesota to distribute mass e-mails, helping to shed light on how some recipients received e-mails in support of President Obama's health care plan without signing up for them, FOX News has learned. The company, Govdelivery, describes itself as the world's leading provider of government-to-citizen communication solutions and says its e-mail service provides a fully-automated on-demand public communication system. The confirmation comes after the White House acknowledged this week that people were receiving unsolicited e-mails from the administration about health care reform and suggested the problem was with third-party groups that...

Do you like health care and spam? I do not like them, Obama-I-am. I do not like health care and spam. Would you like them Here or there? I would not like them here or there. I would not like them anywhere. I do not like health care and spam.I do not like them, Obama-I-am. Would you like them in your house? Would you like them with a mouse? I do not want them in my house. I do not like them with a mouse. I do not like them here or there. I do not like them anywhere. I...

Al Gore might have taken the initiative in creating the Internet, but no one seems to have bothered to teach basic netiquette to Barack Obama and his White House staff. As they have grown more desperate in their attempts to remake America's medical system in the image of the post office, they have resorted to increasingly obnoxious email tactics. First was flag@whitehouse.gov, the address for reporting "fishy" speech. After being pilloried endlessly for what critics thought was an effort to compile an enemies list, the White House deactivated the address--and blamed its critics. The following post, by special assistant to...

White House Blames E-Mail Controversy on 'Sinister Conspiracy Theories' After confirming to FOX News over the weekend that third-party groups could be responsible for official White House e-mails that have been sent to people who never signed up for them, President Obama's new media director took to the official White House blog to "clear up" the confusion, and pointed the finger at "outside groups of all political stripes." FOXNews.com Tuesday, August 18, 2009 The White House is blaming the controversy over its Web site and mass e-mails on viral rumors, "fear-mongering" and "sinister conspiracy theories" even as it acknowledges problems...

After insisting no one was receiving unsolicited e-mails from the White House, officials reversed their story Monday night and blamed outside political groups for the unwanted messages from the tech-savvy operation. White House online director Macon Phillips said in a blog posting that independent groups — he didn't name them — had signed-up their members to receive regular updates about Obama's projects, priorities and speeches. The White House had consistently denied that anyone who hadn't sought the e-mails had received them. "It has come to our attention that some people may have been subscribed to our e-mail lists without their...

The White House tactic to control the message on health care reform had critics accusing the Obama administration of playing "Big Brother" and threatening the privacy of average Americans.

White House Blames Political Groups for Spam Emails on Health Care Bills Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The White House is blaming political organizations like pro-life groups for the unsolicited emails people have ben receiving promoting the pro-abortion health care restructuring bill. Thousands of people have emailed LifeNews.com and other media outlets complaining about the spam emails from the Obama administration. http://www.lifenews.com/nat5361.html

Is White House liable for Spam under Washington State's Anti-Spam Laws? Can't I sue them?

Here is video of Fox News Reporter Major Garrett talking about the White House responding to his questions concerning unsolicited emails citizens have been receiving from the White House. Garrett asked Press Secretary Robert Gibbs about it on Thursday, who would not answer Garrett's questions and treated Garrett rudely. Garrett reports that the White House released a statement saying that the White House does not send emails to people who have not requested that they receive messages. But they did blame "third party" organizations for sending emails to the White House which may have been added to the White House...

It started earlier this week, FOX News began to e-mails from people who said they got an e-mail last week from senior adviser David Axelrod, even though they had never requested any communication from the White House. In the email, Axelrod defended President Obama's health care proposals and asked supporters to help rebut criticism circulating on the Internet. Axelrod wrote that opponents are relying on tactics including "viral e-mails that fly unchecked and under the radar, spreading all sorts of lies." "So let's start a chain of e-mail of our own," he wrote, and asked supporter to send his message...

"The White House for the first time Sunday somewhat acknowledged that people across the country received unsolicited e-mails last week on health care from the administration, suggesting the problem on third-party groups it claimed placed the recipients' names on the distribution list...." "If an individual received the e-mail because someone else or a group signed them up or forwarded the e-mail, we hope they were not too inconvenienced." http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/08/16/white-house-e-mail/

The White House said Sunday night that it will change its e-mail sign-up procedures after some recipients of a health-care e-mail complained that they had not asked to receive updates. “We are implementing measures to make subscribing to e-mails clearer, including preventing advocacy organizations from signing people up to our lists without their permission when they deliver petition signatures and other messages on individual’s behalf,” spokesman Nick Shapiro said in a statement Sunday night. After a few such recipients appeared on Fox News, White House officials determined that advocacy groups on the right or left could have sent in the...

PITY the poor inhabitants of Gliese 581d; some day in 20 years' time, the planet -- which was discovered in 2007 and is theoretically inhabitable (a bit like Los Angeles) -- is going to be hit by a tsunami of spam. Our pollies have been among eager earthlings who've signed up at HelloFromEarth.net to have a message beamed at the planet. Science Minister Kim Carr did his bit to set the tone with this sentiment: "Hello from Australia on the planet we call Earth. These messages express our people's dreams for the future. We want to share these dreams with...

Major Garrett of Fox News asked Robert Gibbs White House spokesperson a very simple straightforward Health Care slash illegal email question yesterday. How did people who never had any communications with the White House receive unsolicited emails concerning Health Care from the White House.(see story) Gibbs’ inability to give a coherent answer left egg on his face as well as questions about the Obama White House violating the American people’s personal privacy not to mention the violating of the 2004 United States CAN-SPAM Act. Watch in horror (or delight) as Gibbs begins to look and sound like a fox biting...

FOX News' Major Garrett sparred with Robert Gibbs over emails people are receiving about health care when they never signed up for them. White House adviser David Axelrod is apparently behind this effort.

ST. LOUIS, MO—Jody M. Smith, a business manager of an illegal, international business selling counterfeit goods and illegal pharmaceuticals, has pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges, Acting United States Attorney Michael W. Reap announced today. According to the facts filed with the court, from 2004 and until October 2008, Jody M. Smith was a business manager of an illegal, international business that sold counterfeit goods and operated an illegal Internet pharmacy. The business often relied on spam e-mail to advertise the sale of counterfeit goods and Internet-based pharmacy services, and to solicit customers of such goods and services. A person believed...

I heard this from a caller on a local radio station. Apologies to all if it's already been suggested. To me, the idea is brilliant in its simplicity! Simply forward ALL of your junk/spam email to flag@whitehouse.gov

Leftarded spam follows. Let's do what we can to help our President! "Ernestine" Hi, CNN host Lou Dobbs is promoting debunked "birther" conspiracy theories by asserting that Obama needs to "produce a birth certificate"--even though he already has. I signed a petition with MoveOn and Media Matters calling on CNN to address their Lou Dobbs problem. Can you join me at the link below? http://civ.moveon.org/stopdobbs/?r_by={identifying-number-was-here}&rc=comment_mail to Thanks! References Visible links . http://civ.moveon.org/stopdobbs/?r_by={identifying-number-was-here}&rc=comment_mailto **************A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy steps!

New software developed at the Georgia Institute for Technology can identify spam before it hits the mail server. The system, known as SNARE (Spatio-temporal Network-level Automatic Reputation Engine), scores each incoming e-mail based on a variety of new criteria that can be gleaned from a single packet of data. The researchers involved say the automated system puts less of a strain on the network and minimizes the need for human intervention while achieving the same accuracy as traditional spam filters.Separating spam from legitimate e-mail, also known as ham, isn't easy. That's partly because of the sheer volume of messages that...

How James Carville’s New Book, 40 More Years Misrepresents Intelligent Design In his new book, 40 More Years: How the Democrats Will Rule the Next Generation, Democratic strategist James Carville badly misrepresents intelligent design (ID) as a wholly negative argument against evolution. What’s most incredible is that Carville makes this inaccurate characterization directly after quoting passages from ID proponents making wholly positive arguments for design. One such passage he quotes is from our Intelligent Design Briefing Packet for Educators, as follows:Intelligent design “begins with the observation that intelligent agents produce complex and specified information (CSI).…One easily testable form of CSI...

Trailer: ‘Creation’ — ‘You’ve Killed God, Sir’ Watching the trailer it looks as if they are trying to give a human face to Darwin that seems a bit hard to imagine. The characters are glorified to the point of sticky-sweet perfection which, of course is Hollywood. Judging strictly from the trailer, the message seems to be that Darwin's "science" was perfect knowledge and religion is finally unmasked as the true heresy... more of the same but with a pretty bow on top. The foregone conclusion follows mainstream education in America: that Evolution is science fact and not science theory. All...

The Frailty of the Darwinian Hypothesis, Part 1 Editor's Note: Ann Gauger is a senior research scientist at Biologic Institute. Her work uses molecular genetics and genomic engineering to study the origin, organization and operation of metabolic pathways. She received a BS in biology from MIT, and a PhD in developmental biology from the University of Washington, where she studied cell adhesion molecules involved in Drosophila embryogenesis. As a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard, she cloned and characterized the Drosophila kinesin light chain. Her research has been published in Nature, Development, and the...

Survey finds one in six consumers act on spam by Jeremy Kirk, IDG News Service About one in six consumers have at some time acted on a spam message, affirming the economic incentive for spammers to keep churning out millions of obnoxious pitches per day, according to a new survey.Due to be released Wednesday, the survey was sponsored by the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG), an industrywide security think tank composed of service providers and network operators dedicated to fighting spam and malicious software.Eight hundred consumers in the U.S. and Canada were asked about their computer security practices habits...

Where did all the water come from? --snip-- Noah’s Flood was a one-off event and we did not see it happen. Even so, the sources of water recorded in the Bible are consistent with our understanding of the structure of the earth...