In this age, the ammo age, hash is the high-powered vitality of copious businesses, especially internet-based businesses. Data is torpid as it is nut to necrosis appurtenant to computer viruses, back-up failure, mechanical failure, solid gut to media storage devices, irritating charge crashes, usual disasters, and human error.

Merry Christmas everyone and idea what? You are happening to secure a instance on the Internet this year in your inbox. You will know it by its name; IM.GiftCom.All, or Santa Claus Worm. Yes this little virus will be one Christmas gift you may never forget.

Isnt great how well the Federal Trade Commission is doing with SPAM in their special report to Congress on their hard work on the CAN SPAM Act? Well, it appears not only can they not prevent SPAM, this Christmas Gift will come to your email box by SPAM; your own special and personal Santa Computer Virus Worm is Coming to Town.

It is amazing the number of media outlets that the FTC contacted to send press releases to in order to tell everyone that they now have to worry about slightly less SPAM emails in their box, while simultaneously some hacker out there somewhere is trying to prove a point and show just how easy it is for them to unleash a virus.

Shouldnt the Federal Trade Commission just admit that their efforts to curb SPAM, SPIT, Phishing and Identity Theft just have not even made a dent in the problems our communication and civilization faces? So far there is no word out yet if this Santa Clause worm virus or the IM.GiftCom.All can be stopped once it enters your computer.

Computer Virus Companies are standing ready, yet you have to worry about all the variants too once these viruses get going.

By now, uncounted clan (though unfortunately not everyone) have metamorphose prescient of the tactics used by the so-called "419" or "Nigerian" scammers. The victim is lured by the promise of a percentage of a huge fortune that has to be secretely transfered out of some African country. Variations of the scam include supposedly winning "internet lotteries" or having a relative that you never heard of die and allegedly leave you millions. In each case, the scammer tries to get the victim to send money for various "fees".

Over the years, these scams, which were once easy to distinguish by their combination of purple prose and bad grammar, have become more sophisticated. One of the latest variations targets a specific professional group, namely interpreters.

Recently, there was a scam in which a bishop (sometimes a "prince", or even a "prince bishop") supposedly from Ghana wrote interpreters, asking for their services, as he was visiting the US, and his wife only spoke (insert language interpreter works with). This is how the scam then would proceed: