Word: fakeness
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...victim of social engineering—a tactic used by the latest viruses to trick you into downloading an attachment. Socially-engineered viruses aren’t new, but their recent rise in sophistication is. Viruses like Sobig, Mydoom, Netsky and Bagle “spoof” (or fake) sender addresses, create believable e-mail texts and give their attachments harmless names, all in an effort to convince you to download and run their harmful payloads. Bagle.J, for instance, sent a message to Harvard students from what appeared to be “Harvard.edu Technical Support...
...high school yearbook had featured the category, Audrey Seiler might well have been voted the Girl Least Likely to Fake Her Own Kidnapping. She was a small-town girl, raised in tiny Rockford, Minn. (pop. 3,500). A tall, pretty brunet, she was honor-society president her senior year at Rockford High School, captained the volleyball and basketball teams and graduated third in her class in 2002. The manager of the Rockford Public Library says Seiler used to show up with small children in tow and tutored summer-school students. She was the kind of kid "you want to hold...
...Seiler did fake her abduction, she wouldn't be the first. But false criminal reports that aren't motivated by money or revenge are rare, according to forensic psychiatrist Park Dietz, who knows of roughly 50 U.S. cases in the past 20 years. When they do happen, they tend to make headlines. In 1988, Dietz testified in the grand jury investigation of Tawana Brawley, a black woman who claimed to have been abducted and raped by a gang of white men in upstate New York. The grand jury found her claims to be untrue. Dietz coined the term factitious victimization...
...goal was not the only solid scoring chance for the Crimson in a period in which it was outshot 13-7 by the Gophers. Twice Corriero sparked the offense by taking the puck up through the defense herself and trying to fake Horak or beat her to the right side...
...taping an old photo of Anna Nicole Smith or Al Roker on your fridge hasn't helped you lose weight, you may want to consider using mypetfat, a yucky yellow glob of fake body fat designed to remind dieters to lay off junk food. Created by lifestyle writer Jay Jacobs, who claims the bogus blubber helped him shed 115 lbs., the diet aid comes in 1-oz., 1-lb. and 5-lb. versions (prices range from $15 to $100). Recommended for use in grocery carts--in tandem with a real nutrition-and-exercise program. Just...