Empowering Youth to Fight Racism, HIV/AIDS, Poverty and Lack of Education

Noooo... this is no bashan or inspiring blog. It is to say about the fraud mailer. You might get this mail from any one, and the sender will also not know anything about this. Cyber crime activity, and if you respond asking account details, you are gone. At least a lakh rupees is what they ask in the mail.

The content looks so perfect and so appealing that you might get a instict to do atleast a bit of contribution. Here is how the content looks like.

Hello,

Hope you are doing fine. Please i need you to me an urgent favor. I went for a program in Africa "Empowering Youth to Fight Racism, HIV/AIDS, Poverty and Lack of Education, taking place in 3 major countries Ghana, South Africa and Nigeria.I am presently in Nigeria and it has been a sad moment for me, I just cant explain the present condition I find myself.I was robbed on my way back to the hotel where I'm staying and most of my things were made away with. The little bag where my money, passport, documents and other valuable things were kept all gone. I am facing a hard time here because i have no money on me. I'm owing an hotel bill of $1250 and they want me to pay the bill before checking out,Else they will have to seize my other bag and hand me over to the Hotel Management.I also have to pay for feeding which is about $1050.

Please I need you to do me this favor urgently. Help me with the sum of $2300.This will sort out my problems here.I'm starving, I don't even have money to feed myself for a day.I await your quick response so i can e-mail you the hotel manager's information were you are to send the money to me via western union money transfer or money gramm. I have already contacted the embassy for help regarding my traveling document that was inside the bag that was made away with and they promised to give me a temporary traveling papers. All i need right now is the money to settle up the bills and leave. I'll pay you back when i get back home and also explain how it all happened.

I am sending you this e-mail from the city Library and I only have 30 min, I will appreciate what so ever you can afford to send me for now and I promise to pay back your money as soon as i return home so please let me know on time so that i can forward you the details you need to transfer the money through Money Gram or Western Union.Hope to hear from you.

Kindest Regards.
XYZ

Example 1 and 2 are some I found on web with the same content (Of course, the number changed). So don't get too generous, take advice and use the web before responding to any such mails. Not just this. If this is out, they can come up with any new idea. Some common sense and some cyber sense should definitely help you out :)

First look at Google Chrome

My friends yet didn't stop astonishing at the new add-ons from Mozilla and when I was thinking that it takes no time for Mozilla to make a complete browser, I heard that Chrome is released. First thought, do we really need another browser doing the same work and same features?

Soon I understood that it is a very wrong thought... why would Google do a routine again? Absolutely fantastic concept. Each tab a new process and each plug-in a new process. You can kill what ever is not responding. Perfect, that very idea sounds great. And where do you get the task manager, you get it from the browser it self. A task manager for the browser. Great.

Small things that can change a lot, one of them is the private data. What if I dont want only a few sites to be cleared from history, but keep other sites. Perfect solution again. An incognito window. You can open it from any link in a normal window. So you have the browsing go on and incognito 'on demand' ;)

It is still in beta and you can notice that you have the option to report bug or broken site as and when you see some.

When all browsers show 'Open in new window' as the first option, chrome changed the order to put the mostly used option at the top - 'Open in new tab'. I see more common sense and user friendlyness added.

  

You can notice that the window does not waste much space either for the command bar or for the status bar. You have more content space than other browsers. It is a status 'on demand'. 

Not much mess, look and feel are simple and the features are huge. The google philosophy can be seen here again. 

It has its own way of developer friendlyness - An open source browser, so you can have your add ons if you want; A built in VM to run Java Script which forms the major part in todays web pages; inspect feature which is a html viewer to help understand each element you see on the page. There is every thing for everyone. From end user, learner to developer and expert.

Yeah, it sure does not have all the features extensively, like the 'Recently closed tabs' of the mozilla. But possibly ignored due to the simpler interface. Bugs, I've already reported one. You can not sign in to in.com.

Am sure you will have fun using chrome. Download it, explore it.

So what's next revolution on the browsers? We have to wait and see, it may take some time to analyze the new features and understand what is it that is still pending.