DC businessman loses thousands after clicking on wrong e-mail

December 1st, 2009 admin

Pay-per-click revenue in the online advertising business may be diminishing for traditional media publishers, but thieves increasingly are earning five- to seven-digit returns when victims click on a booby-trapped link or attachment sent via e-mail. The latest victim to learn this was Nigel Parkinson, president of D.C.-based Parkinson Construction, a firm with an estimated $20 million in annual revenue that has worked on some of Washington’s top gathering places, including the new D.C. Convention Center and the Nationals baseball stadium. Parkinson said he had an expensive crash course in computer security, when on Nov. 24, he clicked…


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