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Do you have a virtual plant? Lock the door!
There are people with 'way too much time on their hands, particularly teenagers. There is apparently a "simulated life/social networking/anything but real life" virtual thing called Habbo Hotel. I'd never heard of it until this story came up. Anyway, if you get involved in this thing, you create a virtual room and spend REAL money to buy stuff to furnish it. Now that's money well spent.
Some enterprising teenagers in Holland decided to take advantage of people willing to pay to buy virtual furniture and set up scam sites where their victims would try to buy virtual furniture, only to discover that they weren't on the actual Habbo site. While done in the context of this peculiar networking vehicle, this amounts to nothing more than selling non-existent products, something we used to call a swindle. Now the term is phishing.
OK, I'll admit the connection between this and creating a "virtual plant" is pretty thin. Nonetheless, it is a reminder that we should be careful about giving out personal data, particularly things like credit card numbers, online.
As for what teenagers spend their money on, I'll have more about that tomorrow, related to the occasional skills gap discussion.
Do you have a virtual plant? Lock the door!
November 27, 2007
There are people with 'way too much time on their hands, particularly teenagers. There is apparently a "simulated life/social networking/anything but real life" virtual thing called Habbo Hotel. I'd never heard of it until this story came up. Anyway, if you get involved in this thing, you create a virtual room and spend REAL money to buy stuff to furnish it. Now that's money well spent.Some enterprising teenagers in Holland decided to take advantage of people willing to pay to buy virtual furniture and set up scam sites where their victims would try to buy virtual furniture, only to discover that they weren't on the actual Habbo site. While done in the context of this peculiar networking vehicle, this amounts to nothing more than selling non-existent products, something we used to call a swindle. Now the term is phishing.
OK, I'll admit the connection between this and creating a "virtual plant" is pretty thin. Nonetheless, it is a reminder that we should be careful about giving out personal data, particularly things like credit card numbers, online.
As for what teenagers spend their money on, I'll have more about that tomorrow, related to the occasional skills gap discussion.
Posted by Peter Welander on November 27, 2007 | Comments (0)
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