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Cyber Alert: How the World Is Under Attack from a New Form of Crime

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Cyber Alert is at first glance a very familiar sort of book, one that screams to computer users "Be afraid! Be very afraid"! Lest the title itself not be sufficient warning of the many forms of doom to which our computers will soon introduce us, the cover graphic, a colorful picture of a computer in a ominously lighted room, the screen of which reads "How the World is Under Attack from a New Form of Crime" clues in even the clueless. The work, however, has virtues that transcend the worked-out genre of which it is a part...

For a full review see Interface, Volume 6, Issue 2.

Maybe the best aspect of Warren's book are the numerous examples it cites of actual fraud mail. He writes for a reader who is a novice with computers. It is such a readership that is most vulnerable to all sorts of electronic fraud attempts. The good news from the book is that you do not have to be some sort of computer guru to avoid falling for electronic scams.

Warren describes what might arrive in your email. Purporting to be from a relative of a [dead] important person, offering you a commission of millions of dollars if you will help him or her. There are other types of come-ons in your mail. All seeming too good to be true. This is where the book's education is useful. Basically, if it is too good to be true, that tells you something.