I’ve seen many things that made me cringe, but targeting the elderly is unconscionable. Disgusting.
It’s really a shame how low some will go for an easy buck.
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According to FoxNews.com:
A South Florida man is facing up to 20 years in prison for operating a phony lottery scam that cheated victims out of at least $500,000.
Sentencing is set for May 31 in Fort Lauderdale federal court for 26-year-old Delroy Drummond. He pleaded guilty recently to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and mail fraud.
Court documents show that Drummond and others would contact elderly people around the U.S. to falsely tell them they had won a lottery prize worth millions of dollars. But they were also told they first had to pay thousands of dollars in taxes and fees before they could collect.
Prosecutors say Drummond had victims send him cash in packages and through wire transfers. The $500,000 was stolen from multiple victims between April and December 2015.
This story has nothing to do with crime other than being a 100% pure dope concept.
According to Goodyear engineers, a kicked ball shaped tire could be coming our way in the future.
Who would’ve “thunk” it?
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Goodyear (GT) says its Eagle-360 tires would allow self-driving cars to navigate tight spaces, such as parking spots or busy city roads
Goodyear thinks if we are going to reinvent the car, we might as well reinvent the tires too.The tire maker has revealed a new concept: spherical rubber tires that can move in any direction. For a self-driving car without a steering wheel, why not try something radically different?
Goodyear (GT) says its Eagle-360 tires would allow self-driving cars to navigate tight spaces, such as parking spots or busy city roads. Instead of axles, they’ll connect to the car using magnetic levitation — potholes would no longer ruin your suspension, since your car would essentially float above its tires. Goodyear said magnetic levitation would deliver a remarkably smooth and quiet ride for passengers.
The spherical tires also have the advantage of having way more surface area than cylindrical tires, so your treads won’t wear out quite as quickly. And the tires could intelligently rotate themselves to provide even greater tread life.
Goodyear also envisions some new tricks embedded within the tires. For example, sensors inside the Eagle-360 tires could communicate weather conditions to the car’s traction control systems. And the tires themselves could stiffen in dry conditions and soften like a sponge in wet weather, adding traction on slippery roads.
Joseph Zekoski, Goodyear’s chief technical officer, said in a statement:
“By steadily reducing the driver interaction and intervention in self-driving vehicles, tires will play an even more important role as the primary link to the road.”
Goodyear acknowledged that the Eagle-360 tires are a far-off-in-the-future concept.
But self-driving cars are already being tested, and industry experts forecast that fully autonomous cars will go on sale by the end of the decade. Today’s cars have intelligence built in, communicating with other cars to sense accidents before they happen.
That’s why Goodyear has developed a near-term tire concept that it believes could become a fixture of cars in the next few years.
Thieves attempted to pull off one of the biggest cyber bank heists in history but a spelling mistake foiled the plan.
So far investigators have not found any proof that central bank staff in Bangladesh were involved, one of the officials said, but said the probe was continuing.
Security experts say that if insiders were not involved, the attackers likely had assistance from somebody close to the banking industry. They also may have spied on bank workers over an extended period to gain details about wire-transfer processes and other operations, they said.
It takes somebody with deep knowledge of the banking industry to perform these types of crime,” said Shane Shook, a security consultant who has investigated some of the biggest cyber breaches on record.
The Bangladesh central bank had billions of dollars in its current account, which it used for international settlements, officials have said. The stolen money made its way to various parts of the world.
Some $80 million are believed to have ended in the Philippines, and further diverted to casinos and then to Hong Kong, according to bank officials. One $20 million transaction was directed to a non-profit organization in Sri Lanka.
But the unusually large transaction for the island nation and a misspelling of the NGO’s name raised red flags that helped bring the robbery to light. The transaction was blocked as was another huge payment instruction that was for between $850 million and $870 million.
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