27th Aug 2004
Un-fucking-believable!
The mind boggles. AP reports:
Small toys showing an airplane flying into the World Trade Center were packed inside more than 14,000 bags of candy and sent to small groceries around the country before being recalled.
Lisy Corp., the wholesaler that distributed the candy, said Friday that the toys were purchased in bulk from a Miami-based import company.
The toys came in an assortment purchased sight unseen from L&M Import in Miami and included the toys depicting the Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the twin towers, whistles and other small toys, said Luis Pedron, Lisy?s national sales manager. The invoice said the toy was a plastic swing set.
UPDATE:
Looking again at this incredible photo, I just noticed that there appears to be a yellow-green button on the Trade Tower on the right. What does that do, I wonder? I bet it makes the plane spin. What else could it do? Send an electronic signal to Al-Qaeda HQ that the seed of doubt has been planted in the impressionable mind of another pint-sized infidel? Detonates a bomb somewhere? Another martyr gets his virgins?
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In regards to your note about the spam invoice scam using PayPal. I just received an email that looked innocent enough. It was from Citizen Bank (seemingly) requesting that I verify account information for a software upgrade. Here’s the trick the criminals use to induce confidence that it is a legit request from the bank, when it fact it is not. When you click the bank link, the actual bank web site opens up, but a pop up opens above the web site where you enter your banking info. Upon further investigation, the pop up sends info to a different server.
Are a couple of tips to avoid getting scammed by spammers trying to get your personal bank info.
1. Banks never send emails requesting you to verify info, UNLESS they ask you to log on to your account first. But be careful, always log in from your own browser bookmarks, not from a link in an email. Even then I’m not sure if banks will continue to do this as per this warning from Citizen Bank: “Also, be wary of any email asking you to log into Citizens Bank Online if it does not link to the official Citizens Bank site located at http://www.citizensbank.com or https://www.citizensbankonline.com.”
2. As per above, the second very important tip is this: Try to cut and paste the link from the email into your browser. (PayPal offers this advise as well). Often the actual url behind the visual url is different. In my Citizen Bank scam, the email contained a graphic which showed an actual secure Citizen Bank url, but the url behind the graphic opened the fake bank pop up.
Regards,
LC