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Realistic Scam and How to Detect Them

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Background As our digital world has become more and more advanced, unfortunately so is the dark side of the digital world. New ways to con unknowing people such as ransom-ware virus and spear phishing are rampant. Even the good old scam has become more elaborated, just few days back I saw a security camera recording on ATM machine showing how two seemingly random strangers actually work together to swap a debit card and get pin code from the victim separately.  In this article I am going to discuss another  very common and can be highly elaborated and realistic Facebook scam. If you are interested with the ATM machine scam that I talked about, I have linked the video at the end of this article Facebook Scam Most of the Facebook scammers have a common goal: either to scam you for your money or blackmail you in anyway they can. Lately, the scam has become so much more elaborated and realistic that you could not tell whether the person is a scammer or genuine person. ...

Introducing the APM Meter for Desktop

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Hi all, First post here, this blog intends to be my code snippet / software first dumping ground For the first software, feel free to download APM Meter: Brief description of what is APM (from wikipedia): Actions Per Minute, commonly abbreviated as APM, is a term used in the real time strategy field of cybersport which refers to the total number of actions that a player can perform in a minute. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actions_per_minute An Example of High APM person: Well, initially I created this little piece of software just for fun and out of frustration of not being able to find any APM Meter for desktop, I was thinking that it would be cool if we can record the APM of our work desktop, during work hours, to see how fast and how efficient we are at doing our task in the office. Then I start having ideas on how to remove / block APM counts of chats, facebook and the like. Eventually the APM meter becomes more than just a simple keypress and mouse click counting ...