In Australia right now it's Fraud Fortnight 2008 which is a campaign of awareness focusing on scams that can deceive and seduce you. Personally I think we could all do with some more seduction, unless of course we are being scammed.

If you want to avoid being scammed, but feel you aren't sure of all the warning signs, then I highly suggest you check out the Little black book of scams.

This is a publication written by the ACCC (Australian Competition and Consumer Commission), and whilst it is written specifically for their Australian audience, it relates to all of us as these scams are global.

ClamAV, an open source anti-virus program for email scanning is a great product, we use it ourselves to filter out the viruses we receive on our personal email accounts. Unfortunately Trend Micro believe they own the patent regarding a technology that’s been in use for many years by many companies, and have now decided to file suit against Barracuda Networks. » read more