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David Eves commented on the post, Progress Report for Week Ending, September 22, on the site 7 years, 7 months ago
James: great example and I am sorry to hear about your friend; that is an unfortunate series of events. Your friend, however, is a great example of what a “motivated” employee can do when the opportunity presents itself and the rationalization is there. I am sure that once he noticed he could get away with taking the money, it started as just bor…[Read more]
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David Eves wrote a new post on the site MIS5208 Spring 2017 7 years, 7 months ago
My name is David Eves and I am currently an auditor for Temple University. This is my final semester in the program (excluding the capstone) and I have thoroughly enjoyed it thus far. I live in Philadelphia, but […]
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David Eves commented on the post, Progress Report for Week Ending, September 22, on the site 7 years, 7 months ago
Blake: you bring up a good point and one that I was thinking about while reading this article – who does the blame really fall on in this situation? Obviously, the lending company has an obligation, but at what point does it become the victim’s responsibility to defend themselves? In a perfect world, I am sure every company would like to boast abo…[Read more]
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David Eves commented on the post, Progress Report for Week Ending, September 22, on the site 7 years, 7 months ago
Laly: thanks for the comment, and the insight. At my old job with the Purchasing Department here at Temple University, we were a front-facing department to both vendors and “customers” both internal and external. I would see about six of the scam attempts you outlined a week, each one cleverer than before. To your point, I think knowing that the…[Read more]
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David Eves wrote a new post on the site MIS5208 Spring 2017 7 years, 7 months ago
To go with what was discussed last Saturday, and this week’s videos, I did some research on scams similar in nature to the 419 scams, and how they affected everyday people. I found the below article to be the m […]
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Hey David, I enjoyed your post and was not aware things like that even happened. I’m sure plenty of people fall victim to such a scam. Email has most definitely changed the game for scammers. Email has provided the convenience and anonymity, along with the capability for easily contacting thousands of people at once, which enables scammers to work in high volume. Scammers only need to fool a small percentage of the tens of thousands of people they email for their ruse to pay off.
According to, “Recognizing and Avoiding Email Scams” a U.S. Govt. publication, “any email scams have existed for a long time. In fact, a few them are merely “recycled” scams that predate the use of email”. The FTC has a list of the 12 most common (http://www.ftc.gov/opa/1998/07/dozen.shtm).
The list includes:
• “free” goods
• investment opportunities
• bulk email schemes
• cable descrambler kits
• “guaranteed” loans or credit
• Make a Regular Income with Online
• Put your computer to work for you!
• bogus business opportunities
• chain letters
• work-at-home schemes
• health and diet scams
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I often wonder how many people fall victim to these scams. I know that they only need a small percentage to for these to work, but then I log onto to social media and see my friends posting some stupid thing saying that they don’t give facebook the right to steal their photos or something, and they believe they are protecting their account. Then you also have the pyramid schemes.
Getting back to Dave’s post, the best way for this gentlemen to protect himself would have been to call the lender. Not the phone listed in the email, which may have been fake, but the one on his statement. They could tell him if the first contact was legit, and also where the money was to be sent. You also need to be wary of any email that says the payment system is down. Most websites will tell you to try again when you go to make the payment, but would not email you.
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Laly: thanks for the comment, and the insight. At my old job with the Purchasing Department here at Temple University, we were a front-facing department to both vendors and “customers” both internal and external. I would see about six of the scam attempts you outlined a week, each one cleverer than before. To your point, I think knowing that the types of emails you identified are the ones these scams are predicated upon really help a person (or a company) in their respective defense. However, as the article revealed, these scams are evolving and randomness is only one characteristic. Now you must factor in timing and the notion that these attackers may have pre-existing knowledge (i.e. knowing that you just bought a house and need to make payments by a certain deadline), and that it is very concerning. I wonder – outside of communications – if there is any other way to defend against that?
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Blake: you bring up a good point and one that I was thinking about while reading this article – who does the blame really fall on in this situation? Obviously, the lending company has an obligation, but at what point does it become the victim’s responsibility to defend themselves? In a perfect world, I am sure every company would like to boast about how they can successfully help their customers avoid these scams, but the reality is it is somewhat of a gray area because a company can only do so much. I think that the firm in this article should have / could have done more for their customers than just a notice buried at the bottom of emails, but – like you said – shouldn’t the victim have taken proper precautions as opposed to just blindly trusting an email requesting payment? It is an interesting situation when it’s not as clear-cut as the 419 scams we talked about it last week.
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I agree, the companies can only do so much. The customer in this case should have been suspicious , especially of that second email.
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David, I would have to agree with you completely when you say communication is KEY. These hackers, although most likely did an efficient enough job to trick a new homeowner such as Howard here, could have easily been exposed through the simple and direct solution of communication. Sethi Partnership should have undoubtedly included more information on potential fraud in more than just their emails, and provided personal one-on-one counsel on ways to recognize and avoid scams.
Villanova’s Department of Public Safety has an information-packed article on how to recognize and avoid scams, ranging from simple tips to vetting softwares. It can be found here: https://www1.villanova.edu/villanova/publicsafety/crime/recognizing_and_avoiding_email_s.html.
According to the site, the following are some recommendations that can minimize your chances of falling victim to an email scam: filter spam, don’t trust unsolicited emails, treat email attachments with caution don’t click links in email messages, install antivirus software and keep it up to date, install a personal firewall and keep it up to date and configure your email client for security.
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Great post, David. If we apply the same concept on fraud detection on an organization, the communication skills is a key also since the common drive for committing fraud is personal desired and needs, so having a close relationship with other on the same firm will help to predict who may commit a fraud and have a chance to stop him and decrease the impact.
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David Eves posted a new activity comment 7 years, 10 months ago
Got it. Working on the rest now – I needed to install Web Server (IIS) Feature as well, and then reset all of the feature delegations. Thank you.
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David Eves posted a new activity comment 7 years, 10 months ago
Pat: I stop the service, copy the datadir folder, move it over to the new drive, rename it Eves_Data, and point to it via Workbench. The when I go to start the service, I receive the following error message:
“The MySQL57 service on Local Computer started and then stopped. Some services stop automatically if they are not in use by other services…[Read more]
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David Eves posted a new activity comment 7 years, 10 months ago
Anyone running into this config error message when they try to run the “hello world” webpage?
This configuration section cannot be used at this path. This happens when the section is locked at a parent level. Locking is either by default (overrideModeDefault=”Deny”), or set explicitly by a location tag with overrideMode=”Deny” or the legacy…[Read more]
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David Eves posted a new activity comment 7 years, 10 months ago
Anybody else have any issues with moving the datadir? When I pointed it to location other than default one, my MySQL service stopped running, and would not restart. Any advice?
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David Eves commented on the post, Systems Administration, on the site 7 years, 11 months ago
Pat: I will try that. Just to be clear, I added all four drives at once when creating the potential RAID drive, not one at a time – does that make the difference? Thanks,
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David Eves commented on the post, Progress Report for Week Ending, September 29, on the site 7 years, 11 months ago
Anyone else having trouble with Tech Challenge No. 4 – the second step? I build the RAID drive, titled it E on the FS1 Server, however, it has been formatting for almost 24 hours is only at 12% – any suggestions? I googled it, and saw some people saying it takes about 30 hours to complete. but I am way past that at the current rate this is moving.
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David Eves posted a new activity comment 7 years, 11 months ago
Pat – thanks for the article, and I had spoken with Mel, too, who I think pointed me in the right direction (you can judge that by the rest of this comment).
Wenlin: try this – in the windows search, type in “edit policy” and one of the results should be “Local Group Policy Editor.” From there, under COMPUTER CONFIGURATION, click ADMINISTRAT…[Read more]
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David Eves commented on the post, Progress Report for Week Ending, September 29, on the site 7 years, 11 months ago
Anybody figure out the trick for step 7? As Pat predicted, I am hung up trying to figure out where this setting is – and my google searches aren’t really helping. Thanks.
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David Eves commented on the post, Progress Report for Week Ending, September 22, on the site 8 years ago
It was great to meet you last night – and hope you enjoy your holiday weekend as well.,
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David Eves posted a new activity comment 8 years, 6 months ago
Professor,
For the USE CASE – are we supposed to do one for each one of the BUSINESS REQUIREMENTS? If not, how do we identify which step(s) should have a USE CASE? Please advise.
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David Eves posted a new activity comment 8 years, 6 months ago
Professor,
Will we be penalized for submitting more than four pages with each document? The Biz Case is difficult for our team to shave down to just four. Please advise – thank you.
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David Eves's profile was updated 8 years, 12 months ago
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David Eves posted a new activity comment 9 years ago
Professor Romeu – I do not see the quiz on Blackboard as of now; does anyone else have this problem?
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David Eves's profile was updated 9 years ago