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MAC USER GROUP MEETING
Leader/Contact: Jack Hennessy
aonghus@alumni.calpoly.edu
FEBRUARY 9th MEETING
The Cambria Computer Club February
2012 Mac Users meeting will be held on
Thursday the 9th in the Joslyn Center
Conference Room at 2:00pm (doors open at
1:30). The topic will be "Quicken and Other
Mac Financial Software", presented by Jack
Hennessy. We'll discuss ways to keep track
of your finances, pay bills, prepare your
taxes, etc.
As usual, there will be an open forum prior
to the main topic presentation, for
questions and exchange of ideas. Arrive
early to listen in or participate.
- - Jack
aonghus@alumni.calpoly.edu
DUES DUE
As usual, the new year triggers the annual
plea for past members to renew their
memberships and wannabe members to take the
plunge. Your membership dues to the Joslyn
Center and the Computer Club first and
foremost provide us with an excellent venue
to conduct 30+ meetings a year and to store
our assets. In addition, your dues and other
contributions have enabled and will continue
to enable us to acquire new equipment and
software so we can present the programs and
demonstrations which our members want to
see.
Moreover, your Joslyn Center membership dues
provide you with a one-payment annual entry
to one or more of several other clubs and
activities that are headquartered in the
Center. I encourage all Computer Club
members to explore the participation
opportunities at Joslyn. Who knows? You
might find something that interests you. I
know that I have for many years now.
GUESS WHAT THIS IS?
Hint: The picture was taken in 1956.

It’s a hard disk drive back in 1956… With 5
MB of storage. In September 1956, IBM
launched the 305 RAMAC, the first ‘SUPER’
computer with a hard disk drive (HDD). The
HDD weighed over a ton and stored a
‘whopping’ 5 MB of data.
Do you appreciate your 8 GB memory stick a
little more now?
PROTECTING YOURSELF FROM
FINANCIAL SCAMS
The cybercrime industry is taking a
particular liking to financial scams. They
automatically assume that a percentage of
their victims are looking for a job,
transferring money, or trying to streamline
their financial lives.
JUST DON’T CLICK …

Most of you already know how to sniff out
such intrusions, but you probably know a
young person, or an uninformed person who
may fall victim to such ploys — whom you
need to warn.
Who & What : #1 above is an immediate
give-away that this is a scam. Even if you
conduct wire transfers from time to time,
look who sent, or claimed to send, the scam.
In this case, you are being spoofed.
Don’t click!
Real world crossover? No, I don’t
think so. #2 above is preposterous because
the sending address is wrong and how would
any police or traffic court single you out
for a ticket. This doesn’t happen, even if
it could. Don’t click!
The Government? Nope. First, even if
there’s a “Matilda Blank” at the IRS(#3
above), the IRS will NEVER contact
you via email, nor initiate a case via
email. If there is a situation or case
already established, then the case number is
used, and you would already know to expect
it. Don’t click!
Check the Date: Spam filters do not
react to or report spam that is more than
two to three days old. So many spammers will
put old dates in the mail. They still show
up in your in-box today, so look at the date
(#4 above)! If it’s mail from August and
this is December, don’t click!
If you must peek, be careful! The act of
merely opening the email alerts the spammer
that the email address is real. But if you
do need to peek, then be very careful. Watch
the progress bar at the bottom of your
browser and see if other activities initiate
when opening. Bingo, you’ve got malware. If
the email really looks authentic, you just
ordered something or made a payment to
someone and you’re really paranoid that it
could be real — RESIST the temptation
to click. Pick up the phone, send a separate
inquiry — do what you need to do to check it
out WITHOUT using that email.
Then, pass this along … get the word out to
as many people as you can, saying:
DO NOT CLICK ON FINANCIAL SCAMS AND SPAMS!
I HOPE TO SEE YOU AT THE
FEBRUARY 9th MEETING!
- - Jack
aonghus@alumni.calpoly.edu
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