New SCAM ALERT!!!

New SCAM ALERT!!!
HELP US SPREAD IT FAST FAST IT MAY BE UR FRIENDS OR FAMILY SO REBROADCAST.

Pls read this
Please be aware that fraudsters have devised a new means of defrauding people, as the former trick of sending an SMS telling you that your ATM has been deactivated due to system upgrade or BVN issues, is no longer working well for them bcos people are very aware of that trick now. Their new trick now is to send you an email supposedly to have been sent by your bank email service informing you that you have been debited #7000 as subscription fee for d bank's monthly digest magazine and the charge will continue every month.. to unsubscribe and cancel that deduction monthly from your account you should click here (a link is given there). once u click the link it will open up a page where you will be asked to supply your bank details including Atm information, that is now the info they need to enable them access and clear your account.
Please remember DO NOT REPLY SUCH EMAIL, DO NOT CLICK THE LINK TO CANCEL THE MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTION, JUST IGNORE OR DELETE THE MAIL, YOUR ACCOUNT IS SAFE AND NOTHING WAS DEDUCTED FOR ANY COCK N BULL MAGAZINE. Ive done well to alert you, dont fall a victim... God bless.
It is a fresh and latest information from the security Agencies.
Circulate please.

MTN Wow Weekend Data Plans,

Full List Of MTN Wow Weekend Data Plans, Prices and Subscription Code
MTN WowWeekend is the latest and exciting offer that rewards users with bonus data on every recharge made. The offer is valid from Friday to 11:59pm on Sunday.
The new WowWeekend data plan has been revised, and I'm sure you received a message from mtn about that.
full mtn wow weekend data offer
MTN WOW WEEKEND DATA PLANS AND PRICES
» Buy 30MB for N100 and get 150MB FREE data. Dial *131*113# to activate. Bonus valid for 24hrs
With this above wow weekend plan, you'll get a total of 180mb for N100.
» Buy 100MB for N200 and get 500MB FREE data. Dial *131*113# to activate. Bonus is also valid for 24 hrs.
You'll get a total of 600MB for N200.
» Buy 750MB for N500 and get 3.75GB FREE DATA. Dial *131*103# to activate. Bonus is valid till Sunday 11:59pm.
You'll get a total of 3.8GB (3.825) for N500.
» Buy 1.5GB for N1000 and get 7.5GB FREE DATA. Dial *131*106# to activate. Bonus is valid till Sunday 11:59pm.
You'll get 9GB for N1000 in total.
» Buy 3.5GB for N2000 and get 17.5GB FREE DATA. Dial *131*110#. Bonus is valid till Sunday 11:59pm.
A total of 21GB for N2000 is what you'll get.
For instance, once you activate the one of N2000, you'll be instantly credited with 17.5GB WowWeekend data, which can only be used at weekend. After the weekend, you can now use the normal monthly data which is 3.5GB.
HOW CAN I CHECK DATA BALANCE?
To check the remaining data balance on any of the wow weekend offer, kindly dial *131*4#.
WHEN WILL THE DATA EXPIRE?
The WowWeekend data is expiring by Sunday 11:59 while the normal monthly data is expiring in 30days (1 month).
This mtn wow weekend data is great, but the validity is too short. Or what do you think about this? if you also have any question, kindly comment & share.

safeguare your bank.

Despite increased online and mobile banking security, banks are more often being targeted by hackers. A hacker group has infiltrated a number of banks and financial institutions in several countries, stealing hundreds of Millions of dollars in possibly the biggest bank heist the world has ever seen.

According to a report published by the New York Times on Saturday, hackers have stolen as much as $1 Billion from more than 100 banks and other financial companies in almost 30 nations, making it "the most sophisticated attack the world has seen to date."

In late 2013, banks in Russia, Japan, Europe, the United States and other countries fell victim to a massive, sophisticated malware hack that allowed the hackers to spy on bank officials in order to mimic their behavior, according to an upcoming report by Kaspersky Labs received by the NY Times.

CARBANAK BANKING MALWARE IN THE WILD

In order to infect bank staffs, the hacker group sent malicious emails to hundreds of employees at different banks. Once open, the email downloads a malware program called Carbanak, that allegedly allowed perpetrators to transfer money from the banks to fake accounts or ATMs monitored by criminals.

The exact figure of the stolen amount is unclear, though, according to the cybersecurity firm, the total theft could be more than $300 Million. Because, the hackers only swiped $10 million at a time and some banks were targeted more than once.

"This is likely the most sophisticated attack the world has seen to date in terms of the tactics and methods that cybercriminals have used to remain covert," Chris Doggett, manager of Kaspersky's North American office in Boston, told the Times.

However, the cyber security firm does not name the banks and financial institutions involved in the massive theft operation in its report. But, the interesting part is that no banks have come forward to reveal that they have been hacked in this largest theft.

HISTORY OF CYBER HEIST

This is not first time when hackers have made banks and financial institutions as their target. In past, they had carried out a number of bank crimes. The list is given below:

• In March, 2012 - A Russian hacker was sentenced to two years in US prison for his involvement in a global bank Million Dollar Fraud scheme that used hundreds of phony bank accounts to steal over $3 million from dozens of U.S.accounts. He was responsible for the Zeus banking malware that was used to carry out the fraud.
• In October, 2012 - FBI arrested 14 people who used cash advance kiosks at casinos located in Southern California and Nevada and robbed over $1 million from Citibank.
• In May, 2013 - A gang of cyber-criminals operating in 26 countries stole $45 Million by hacking into the database of prepaid debit cards, making it the biggest bank robbery in the history.
• In July, 2013 - A hacker group allegedly broke into the computer networks of more than a dozen of major American and International corporations and stole 160 million credit card numbers over the course of 7 years, making it the largest data theft case ever prosecuted in the U.S.
• In October, 2013 - The Dutch police arrested four people who used TorRat Malware to target two out of three major Banks in the Netherlands and stole over Millions of Dollars from Banking Accounts.

usb that can kill you.

Can Hackers turn a remote computer into a bomb and explode it to kill someone, just like they do in hacker movies? Wait, wait! Before answering that, Let me tell you an interesting story about Killer USB drive:

A man walking in the subway stole a USB flash drive from the outer pocket of someone else's bag. The pendrive had "128" written on it. After coming home, he inserted the pendrive into his laptop and instead discovering any useful data, he burnt half of his laptop down. The man then took out the USB pendrive, replaced the text "128" with "129" and put it in the outer pocket of his bag… Amen!

I’m sure, you would really not imagine yourself being the 130th victim of this Killer perdrive, neither I.

This above story was told to a Russian researcher, nicknamed Dark Purple, who found the concept very interesting and developed his own computer-frying USB Killer pendrive.

He is working with electronic manufacturing company from where he ordered some circuit boards from China for creating his own USB killer stick.

"When we connect it up to the USB port, an inverting DC/DC converter runs and charges capacitors to -110V," the researcher explained. "When the voltage is reached, the DC/DC is switched off. At the same time, the field transistor opens."

At last, he successfully developed a well functioning USB killer pendrive which is able to effectively destroy sensitive components of a computer when plugged-in.

"It is used to apply the -110V to signal lines of the USB interface. When the voltage on capacitors increases to -7V, the transistor closes and the DC/DC starts. The loop runs till everything possible is broken down. Those familiar with the electronics have already guessed why we use negative voltage here."

It is not possible for hardware to prevent all damage to physical systems in some scenarios. It may be possible for an attacker to exploit SCADA vulnerabilities and remove safety controls used by power plants or put it into an unstable state.

Stuxnet worm is one of the real example of such cyber attacks, which was designed to destroy centrifuges at the Nuclear facility and all this started from a USB drive.

Also in 2014, a security firm demonstrated an attack on Apple’s Mac computer by overriding temperature controls, which can actually set the machine on fire.

So if we say that a computer could be converted into a bomb, then of course it’s true, a hacker can probably make your computer explode as well.

Therefore, next time when you find an unknown USB flash drive, just beware before inserting it into your laptop. Because this time it will not fire up your important files or data stored on your laptop like what malwares do, instead it will fire up your Laptop.

medical tips.

Taking alcohol while taking paracetamol can adversely affect the liver.

Nigerian pdp politics

BREAKING!!!
GHOST TENSION IN ASO ROCK AS PDP NATIONAL CHAIRMAN TENDERS RESIGNATION LETTER
While the various State Chapters of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) wax stronger with hopes of winning the States they currently lead, especially the South South States; information filtering in from the nation’s capital is that the National leadership is currently in disarray.

A source close to the presidency squealed to Secrets Reporters that there was high tension in Aso Rock on Wednesday as its National Chairman, Adamu Mua’zu have finally bowed to pressure from his Northern brothers to resign his enviable position. We reliably gathered that Muazu complained bitterly to President Goodluck on Monday over the insult meted out to his people by his wife, Dame Patience Jonathan where she denigrated their culture and insulted their people. He reportedly told the President that he wants the party to disown the stand of the First Lady through the publicity National Secretary, Olisa Metuh, but this request was allegedly turned down by the President who explained that it would cause disaffection, an action which infuriated Muazu
According to the source, Muazu have been under fire especially from the traditional rulers to either choose his allegiance to the party or his people. In a clear case of loyalty, he was said to have gone to Aso Rock today to tender his resignation letter after complaining how Gov. Ayo Fayose of Ekiti State and the Director of Media and Publicity, Fani Kayode making mockery of the campaign strategy. "Fani- Kayode & Ayo Fayose have destroyed all our campaign strategies. They have turned PDP to an opposition party." He stated.
The presidency is currently jittery and pleading with him to take back his job, stating that this action is enough to cause the PDP massive loss in the presidential election. Barring any change in plan, the party boss will be bidding final farewell on Friday.
Muazu is expected to meet with Northern leaders on Friday to discuss the over some yet to be disclosed discussion, squealed a source close to him.

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India's biggest bank aims to cut bad debt with huge online property auction

Thu Mar 12, 2015 8:51am EDT

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* State Bank of India holds $200 mln auction

* Selling 300-plus properties

* Indian banks struggle to recover bad debt

By Devidutta Tripathy

MUMBAI, March 12 (Reuters) - India's largest bank will hold a record online auction this weekend to sell repossessed flats, warehouses and offices worth a total of nearly $200 million as the state lender seeks to chip away at its $10 billion mountain of bad debt.

The State Bank of India auction will be the biggest nationwide online sale to date and is a rare public move to turn distressed loans into ready cash.

It comes weeks ahead of rule changes that will force Indian banks to take on much larger provisions for such loans, with what were previously labelled as restructured debts being reclassified in accounts as bad debt.

Including both bad and restructured debt, more than a tenth of Indian bank loans have soured. India Ratings and Research, part of the Fitch agency, estimates impaired loans could hit 13 percent of the total by March next year.

That has left debt-burdened banks scrambling for cash, even resorting to flash sales of repossessed properties that on their own can be worth as little as a few thousand dollars.

"We are now a lot more aggressive," said Parveen Kumar Malhotra, a deputy managing director at SBI, who leads a special unit managing stressed assets.

"We are in a better position to do all the things required, from (phone) calls to auctions and everything in between, including legal cases."

UNDER PRESSURE

India's state-owned banks have all have experienced a jump in bad loans over the past two years as borrowers, particularly companies, struggled to service loans when the economy slowed.

With less cash from the government and new global prudential rules on the horizon, Indian banks are under increased pressure to clean up their balance sheets.

SBI's sale pulls together more than 300 pieces of property from two dozen Indian cities in what its advertising described as a "mega e-auction" of prime commercial and residential properties, many of which were put up as collateral by fledgling entrepreneurs.

Efforts by Indian banks to claw back bad debt have been complicated by the country's lack of a bankruptcy code. Central bank data shows that, as of March last year, Indian lenders had received only 16 percent of the value of loans they had sought to recover through tribunals.

SBI itself was involved in one of the most high-profile cases in recent years after the collapse of Kingfisher Airlines, which still owes banks $1.5 billion. Creditors, led by SBI, took possession of Kingfisher offices in Mumbai last month after trying for almost two years.

Overseas, options for banks have included packaging the loans and selling them to other businesses that will seek to recover the cash. But such sales in India were badly hit after rules tripled the upfront payment for buyers of bad debt. ($1 = 62.4579 Indian rupees) (Editing by Clara Ferreira Marques and David Goodman)