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How to avoid online job scams targeting the unemployed

Business, Economics and Jobs

Fake companies are targeting the unemployed, and often ask for financial or personal information that hackers can use to break into a person’s bank accounts or steal an identity.

Google warns users of suspected state-sponsored hacks

Environment

The golden age of scams: right now

Business, Economics and Jobs

How Language and Culture Play into Phishing Scams

Arts, Culture & Media
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Notorious Spammer Brought Down Via Twitter

Conflict & Justice
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Junk Mail Begone

Steve Curwood talks about junk mail with Jim Calhoun, the Chief Executive Officer of Popular Demand, Incorporated. The company operates a website, “unlistme.com,” that removes people from junk mailing lists and signs them up for a new type of commerce.

America’s Biggest Mail Junkies

Host Steve Curwood talks to Will Nixon, Assistant Editor of E-Magazine, about his magazine’s recent Junk Mail Hall of Shame. The list points the finger at a few companies who make sure that our mailboxes are never empty.

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Internet Scams 2.0

Development & Education

The new generation of Internet scams is harder to spot. The Takeaway is joined by Ryan LaBarge, who was nearly taken by a scam on craigslist, Jacqui Cheng of Ars Technica, and Amir Orad, executive vice president of Actimize.

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Guam loves Spam

Arts, Culture & Media

The US Pacific Island territory of Guam is notable not just for its US military bases; Guam is also the world’s leading consumer per capita, of Spam. The World’s Mary Kay Magistad reports about the Guamanian craze for processed meat.

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Law and disorder in cyberspace

Conflict & Justice

Cybercrime is on the rise and botnets are largely to blame. Botnets are large groups of computers that spew out spam, worms and viruses. The trouble is that international law can’t keep up with the technology. Correspondent Cyrus Farivar reports.

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