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Some of the fishing scams are funny because of their poor efforts at fearmongering. They go something like this:
"URGENT ATTENTION NEEDED - Paypal Account Fraudulent Activity
Please use the link below to access your Paypal account to investigate potential misuse of your account."
Clicking on the link creates a window that is a spot-on replica of the actual page, but the information is, of course, sent to a third party who then uses it to actually hijack your account.
Delicious irony, no?
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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. ~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
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