Well the networking event in Arena Riga wasn't. It simply was not a business event. There were too many speakers, unrehearsed and simply wanting to spout political nonsense. We all know that the government has failed but until the SCP get in there is little point wasting time trying to tell any of the current lot what to do because they will not listen. There was virtually no chance to network in any effective way, no name tags, no ideas of companies or products, just faces and nonsense. What a wasted evening it would have been had I not been rescued by Jevgeny who took me home for beer and snacks and chance to talk proper business.
Now to scams. I have got bored of the Nigerian nonsense. The numbers of scam messages do not seem to decrease. It is time that this was pursued internationally and people were put in prison. But yesterday I got a clever one from Amazon.co.uk trying to get me to give my card details, then one from Hong Kong about selling domain names and last night a phone call from Japan. The world wide recession is going to increase the number of people doing things like this and Internet crime will rise exponentially. People need to be on the lookout for dishonesty and really trust no email that they are not expecting. If something sounds too good to be true, it is...........
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