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I was duped this morning by a fake email, with horrible consequences...unleashing a Trojan that blocked access to any application, claiming to be a virus protection suite...can't remember the name. I am hoping that the Kaspersky Rescue disk will save my bacon. The email claimed to be from WhatsApp and said I had a voicemail. I just got my first smartphone a couple of days ago, and just yesterday signed into the Microsoft store to see what was available and figured the email was the result of that action. I even went as far as Googling the name of the app/company to see if it was legit. What I failed to notice was the last search result on the first page describing it as possible malware! What a nice way to spend a Friday morning!  'and I didn't even see it coming'
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Oh dear....
If I get emails that can possibly be relating to something genuine, I always visit the site directly and not via links. Never trust anything that appears in your mailbox!
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Oops!
Well, they say it's a good way to learn - you won't do that again, now will you?
So some good came of it...
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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At my work, the company periodically sends out phishing e-mails internally. We have been told that if we open the link of the next one, we will have a personal conversation with a VP...
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Would the conversation cover entrapment?
BDF
The internet makes dumb people dumber and clever people cleverer.
-- PaulowniaK
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Send one to the VP and see what happens, get the link to show something like a picture of a monkey reading the original email warning about opening phishing emails and seeing the VP.
Actually on second thoughts best not do that.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Got a legitimate email from a government agency, after our CIO pulled it out of the mailstore, as I had deleted it as junk. 
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kmoorevs wrote: and I didn't even see it coming
just like all next big things.
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185 zoologists walk into a bar.
Bartender says, "Sorry, I can't serve you"
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"Why not?"
"You guys behave like a bunch of animals."
/ravi
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The surrealist painted the concrete antelope.
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It's bad for business, all the sheep in the area are nervous!
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I was trying to be discrete! 
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Wasn't there a discussion why Griff stopped drinking a few days ago (Can't find the thread, though)?
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... The missus can't stand that much attention.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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They reply, "Are you amphibian?"
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You might impose a tax on me....
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That's OK, we're only here to observe the mating rituals of the local fauna.
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"Why not?" ask the zoologists, handing him a small dog.
"Because it's a shitzu"
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
.\\axxx
(That's an 'M')
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Pardon me I must be having a thick moment - please explain.
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Why do we still need a separate charge for line rental nowadays (well in the UK with BT at least)?
It should be just built into the cost of the contract. And BT putting this line rental charge up to 15.99 a month, which in my opinion is just a rip off. Ok, so you can get it for 11.75 if you pay a year in advance.
Sounds more like BT are saying "Regulator screwing us for call charges, let make money instead via the line rental".
How does Line rental compare in other countries? If it even exists that is!
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I think it's because the price is set by BT - it's the amount they figure covers maintenance of the line, exchange hardware and (of course) enormous annual profits. The other telecoms companies (generally, there is at least one exception in the UK) do not supply and maintain their own physical network, so they have to pay BT for use of theirs. And they pass that cost on to us as a separate item in case BT hike the price on them.
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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