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Only Beginners fall for online scams - really?

Even the founder of the web has been caught out online

Tim Berners-Lee admits to falling for online scam

Web founder conned out of money by bogus shopping web site
Phil Muncaster
vnunet.com, 16 Mar 2009

Tim Berners-Lee, the founder of the world wide web, revealed today that he has been a victim of online fraud.
Berners-Lee, who is widely credited with inventing the web when working at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (Cern) in the 1980s and early 1990s, told The Daily Telegraph that a site he visited to buy a Christmas present turned out to be a fake.


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