Posts with keyword: fraud

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Virtual Market Ponzi Schemes

Mon Jan 29 16:16:00 2007

Randolph Harrison has an interesting article asking whether SecondLife is a revolutionary virtual market or a ponzi scheme. Duane Day sent me the link and also this one defending SecondLife.
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419 Scams, Black Money, and Greed

Mon Dec 11 17:06:00 2006

This piece about a former Congressman in jail because of Nigerian 419 scams caught my eye this morning. Amazing. It makes me wonder how gullible we all are. Clearly greed is the underlying culprit here. Be sure to watch the video on the black money scam. That was new to me. Anyone want to buy a suitcase full of black paper?
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IIW2005: Mike Jones on Identity Metasystems

Wed Oct 26 11:47:00 2005

We're trying to get to a world where there is a ubiquitous, user-centric identity solution for the Internet. The result should be a safer, more trustworthy Internet. Mike is showing a user experience for InfoCards, Microsoft's proposed identity solution. First time I've seen it. The solution, of course, is very thick client oriented since InfoCards is built into the OS. The vision is nice because there's a common experience for using InfoCards across every Web site. A ubiquitous identity solution must accommodate mutually contradictory requirements based on context. For example, most of the time we don't want people to
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