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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Times New Roman">Web: </font><a href="http://www.2rbetter.org/"><font face="Times New Roman">www.2rbetter.org</font></a><font face="Times New Roman"> – </font></span></b><font face="Times New Roman"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">March 4, 2008</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"></span></b></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">NIGERIA</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"> HACKER CAUSES WORRY TO NOXON WOMAN, FAMILY</span></b></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Editor's note: Each week, the Missoulian provides readers with a sampling of news gleaned from weekly newspapers around western </span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Montana</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">. (</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">January 8, 2008</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">)</span></i></b></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Times New Roman">Mickie Dobson of Noxon was wrestling with her computer, trying to access her e-mails through her Yahoo account, when the phone calls started coming in.</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">My sister in </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Wyoming</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"> called and asked if I was all right," Dobson told reporter Simons of the Sanders County Ledger. "My brother from </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">California</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"> called and asked what kind of crazy thing had I gotten myself into. I thought they were kidding. I'm here in Noxon in my pajamas trying to send e-mails, and I'm fine."</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">The reason Dobson couldn't access her Yahoo account was that someone in </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Nigeria</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"> had. They hacked into her account, changed her "password", got into her address book and fired off a flurry of e-mails to Dobson's family and friends.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span>The messages, allegedly from Dobson, were a plea for financial help.</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span>"I am sorry I didn't inform you about my traveling to Africa for a program called Empowering Youth to Fight Racism, HIV/AIDS, Poverty and Lack of Education," the missives began.</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span>The e-mails said Dobson had forgotten the bag with all her money, credit cards, return airline ticket and passport in a taxi, and now she owed a hotel $1,000 and needed another $1,500 to return home.</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span>"I am in a terrible and tight situation here. I don't even have money to feed myself for a day, which means I have been starving," read the e-mails, which asked people to wire her money in </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Africa</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span>You couldn't blame the people who got them from thinking they could be true, the Ledger reported. Dobson is vice president of Community Services Fellowship Inc., a charitable organization that includes the food bank for the west end of </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Sanders</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"> </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">County</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">, so she is involved in helping the less fortunate.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span>And she had traveled to </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Africa</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"> before, spending a summer there a decade earlier on a photography tour. Not only that, the e-mails were signed the way she often signs ones she's actually written: "Thanx, Mickie."</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span>As soon as the calls started coming in, Dobson contacted the Sanders County Sheriff's Department, the FBI, Yahoo – and the people in her address book. Only one friend was victimized, wiring $100 along with an apology for not being able to help more because of a recent job layoff.</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span>"If I had not been at home to discover this fraudulent attempt to get money using my name, this crook may have done a lot of damage to my family and friends," Dobson told the Ledger. "The e-mails began at </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">8:36 a.m.</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"> and it took me until </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">5 p.m.</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"> to get a new password. In that period of time, this person could have bilked my friends out of a lot of money."</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><u><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">NOTE:</span></u></b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>If you've read the above, you will no doubt remember receiving an almost identical note supposedly from me. I too had been in </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Africa</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"> on two occasions, speaking both times in </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Cairo</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">, and traveling up the </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Nile</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"> by plane to </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Luxor</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"> and </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Karnak</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Times New Roman">When I couldn't get on my computer at that time to send and receive e-mails, I contacted my Web-master who fortunately had a copy of my email addresses. We worked out a new "password" composed of a series of numbers and letters that made sense to me, but would be almost impossible to "hack". He sent out a letter in my name alerting my readers to the falsity and fraud of the plea to save me from starving, paying $1000 Hotel bill and $1500 to fly home – seeing I had lost all my money, credit cards etc.</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">I have had a score to 50 pleas from </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Nigeria</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"> to help someone over there to inherit $10 million, and a cut of a million or so to me for my kindness. I have deleted all of them! But when a friend of mine in Montana sent me the above Newspaper report of the unfortunate lady in Noxon – then it occurred to me that a letter from me to encourage you to update your "password" to prevent hackers cutting you out by changing it – might be appreciated.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Times New Roman">It is now about 8 months that I have been free from hackers. Such are absolutely without a good conscience.</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">It might be good to pray that a more successful policing of the Internet take place. Countries like the </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Philippines</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">, governments, our Pentagon – have all successfully been hacked. God has alerted us that the end of this age will have a new type of danger and lawlessness. Paul warned Timothy of this 2000 years ago. Often it is teen-agers who do this just for kicks. But more often those criminally-inclined are doing it for money.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></font></p>
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