Headline May 11, 2018/ ''' *FACEBOOK-ERS -FURY- FAKE-ACCOUNTERS* '''

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FURY- FAKE-ACCOUNTERS* '''

*WITH CLIPS AND CLOPS* - The World Students Society, most lovingly and respectfully called, !WOW!, plans for *Global Elections*.

*The World Students Society*, - make no mistake, is the exclusive and eternal ownership of every single student  in the world :
'Oneshare-Piece-Peace.''

In the nearest of futures, The World Students Society just so planned, will get published from all,  and anywhere, from all over the world. 

*Thus and therefore, time enough to watch and learn how Facebook-ers get swindled by fake Zuckerbergs*.

FACEBOOK REQUIRES people to use their authentic name and identity. Yet the company has estimated.............

That perhaps 3 percent of its users - as many as 60 million accounts are pure fakes.

Some of these accounts are disguised as ordinary people, and some pretend to be celebrities such as Justin Bieber.

In congressional testimony last month, Mr. Zuckerberg said Facebook was improving its software to automatically detect and remove such accounts.

Facebook officials have said the company blocks millions of fake accounts trying to register each day and analysts said the social network has improved its efforts to remove the accounts.

''Fake accounts, over all, are a big issue, because that's how a lot of the other issues that we around  fake news and foreign election interference are happening as well,'' Mr. Zuckerberg told lawmakers, adding -

That Facebook is hiring more people to work on reviewing content.

But major holes remain. Interviews with a half-dozen recent victims - and online conversation with nine impostor accounts - showed that the Facebook lottery deception is alive and well, preying particularly on older, less educated and low-income people.

The Mark Zuckrberg and Sheryl Sandberg impostor accounts typically, typically use the executives pictures as profile photos and list their Facebook titles.

Some post manipulated images of people holding oversize checks. The names of Mr. Zuckerberg and Ms.Sandberg are sometimes misspelled, or use parentheses and middle names [Elliot for Mr. Zuckerberg and Kara for Ms. Sandberg] to evade Facebook software.

Many of the impersonators had dozens to hundreds of followers; several had thousands. They are aided by a network of other sham accounts with generic names, such as Jim Yowey and Mary Gilbert, which purported to be ''Facebook claim agents.''

The scammers seek victims who, based on the their Facebook and Instagram profiles, seem vulnerable, said Robin Alexander van der Kieft, who manages several groups that track the scams.

The various Facebook accounts share information about successful shakedowns and continue pouncing on those victims, he said.

He has traced many of the Internet protocol addresses of those fake accounts to Nigeria and Ghana.

The pitch often begins with an unsolicited .....

''Hello. How are you doing?'' on Facebook or Instagram. The fake accounts then proceed, sometimes in broken English, to inform people of their enormous Facebook Lottery Prize.

After several messages between The Times and a fake Sheryl Sandberg account on Instagram last week, the impostor offered $950,000 and a new car via the ''Facebook splash promotion in 2018.

When asked for proof the account was Ms. Sandberg, the scammer sent a Photoshopped identification.

''I want you to know that this Promo is 100% Real and Legitimate and the Government are aware of this Promo you don't have to be skeptical all you just just have to do is to follow all instructions giving to you okay,'' the account added.

Three days later, the account said it needed a $100 iTunes gift card to process and activate the winning A.T.M  card.

{iTunes gift cards can quickly be redeemed and traded on the black market for cash}.

After initially resisting the sham, Ms. Sandberg agreed to a phone call, adding :

''I'm not the one that will be speaking to you O.K..''

Seconds later, a call arrived from a number with 650 area code - Silicon Valley.

''You have to be careful, there are lots of scam artists,'' a man said in accented English after he was informed that he was speaking with......... The Times.

He added, ''All I am trying to do is get your winning package.''

The Times reached out to more than 50 impostor accounts. Most messages went unreturned. None that replied broke character.

The Honor and Serving of the   latest  Operational Research on Technologies, Social Networks, and Swindlers, Criminals, Corn artists and Crooks,  continues. The World Students Society thanks researcher and author Jack Nicas.

With respectful dedication to the Social Networks, Law Enforcement Agencies, Regulators, Grandparents, Parents, Students, Professors and Teachers of the world.

See Ya all ''register'' on !WOW! - the World Students Society and Twitter - !E-WOW! - the Ecosystem 2011:

'''Sham & Sums'''

Good Night and God Bless

SAM Daily Times - the Voice of the Voiceless

HEZBOLLAH ALLIES GAIN IN LEBANON ELECTIONS

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Hezbollah and its political allies made significant gains in Lebanon’s parliamentary election, official results showed, boosting an Iranian-backed movement fiercely opposed to Israel and underlining Tehran’s growing regional clout.

The leader of Shi’ite Hezbollah, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, called the result a “a very big political, parliamentary and moral victory for the choice of resistance”.

The number of Hezbollah MPs was the same or little changed, but candidates supported by the group or allied to it gained in major cities. Hezbollah and its political allies won just over half the seats in parliament, according to final results from all but one of Lebanon’s 15 electoral districts.

Branded a terrorist group by the United States, heavily armed Shi’ite Hezbollah has grown in strength since joining the war in Syria in support of President Bashar al-Assad in 2012.

The strong showing by parties and politicians who support Hezbollah’s possession of weapons risk complicating Western policy in Lebanon, which is banking on foreign aid and loans to revive its stagnant economy and receives U.S. military support.

An Israeli minister said the outcome showed the Lebanese state was indistinguishable from Hezbollah, signaling the risk of Israel hitting Lebanon’s government in a future war.

Western-backed Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri lost over a third of his seats, the results showed. He blamed a complex new voting law and gaps in his party’s performance.

But with 21 MPs, down from 33 in the last parliament, he still emerged as the Sunni Muslim leader with the biggest bloc in the 128-seat house, making him the frontrunner to form the next government.

*DUMP IRAN'S NUCLEAR DEAL*

WESTERN LEADERS continued to respond to United States president Donald Trump's  controversial move to dump Iran Nuclear deal on Wednesday.

Barack Obama, the former US president, hit back in a statement lauding the deal as a ''model for what diplomacy can accomplish.'' He criticized Trump for withdrawing from the JCPOA, saying :

''I believe that the decision to put the JCPOA at risk without any Iranian violation of the deal is a serious mistake.''

He warned in the absence of the JCPOA ''the United States could eventually be left with a losing choice between a nuclear-armed Iran or another war in the Middle East.''

France's Le drian, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the International Atomic Energy Agency [IAEA] all said Iran was honouring its commitments under the accord.

The region deserves better than further destabilization provoked by American withdrawal,'' Le Drian said.

The European union said it would ensure sanctions on Iran remain lifted, as long as Tehran meets its commitments.

The Kremlin said Russian President Vladamir Putin was ''deeply concerned'' by the withdrawal, the RIA news agency said.

Merkel said that, while the existing deal should not be called into question, there should be discussion of ''a broader deal that goes beyond it''.

British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson spoke of a ''follow on agreement'' but said it was now up to Washington to come up with concrete proposals.

Macron said he wanted a broader discussion with all relevant parties on the development of Iran's nuclear programme after 2025, when key elements of the current deal expire, as well as Iran's ballistic missile programme and wider Middle East issues.

Iranian officials will next week meet counterparts from France, Britain and Germany.

Khamenei appeared sceptical whether they could deliver. ''I don't trust these countries.''

*15,000 NUKES IN 14 STATES*

ISLAMABAD/ PAKISTAN : Experts at a roundtable highlighted that over 15,000 nuclear weapons at 107 different sites in 14 countries -

Posed a potential threat to human existence on the earth as dealing with humanitarian consequences of a nuclear accident is not possible.

Experts at a discussion on 'Building Bridges for Effective Nuclear Disarmament : Current Nuclear Challenges and Opportunities' observed that currently-

*No mechanism existed to cap the impact of a nuclear detonation*.

According to the World Economic Forum's Global Risk Landscape, the world is increasingly at risk of a nuclear accident due to the growing number of warheads across the globe.

The experts maintained that nuclear accidents do happen which sometimes go unreported.

''Even after the end of the nuclear security summit, 83% of the world's HEU and plutonium remains under military use. Only 17% is under civilian use and has been addressed following the nuclear security summit process,'' they believed.

On the issue of North Korea's denuclearization, they said the world has welcomed DPRK's decision.

However, the participants raised questions on who would verify the dismantling of DPRK's nuclear devices.

''Some countries believe that the IAEA should monitor the process. However, the IAEA is not mandated for the task.

Other countries are of the view that CTBTO should oversee the closure and dismantling of DPRK's  nuclear programme,'' the experts said. 

TUNISIA SO TOWERS

TUNIS : Area : 163,610 km2. Population : 11.4 million. Unemployment : 15.5% [Q4 2017]

Perceived Corruption : 2017 : 74th/Press Freedom : 97th.-RSF ranking of 180 countries].

Tunisia held its first free municipal elections on Sunday as voters expressed frustration at the slow pace of change since the 2011 revolution in the cradle of the Arab Spring.

The election has been touted as another milestone on the road to democracy in the North African country which has been praised for its transition from decades of dictatorship.

But Tunisia has struggled with persistent political and economic problems as well as corruption since the revolution, and observers expected a low turnout for Sunday's polls.

Only 13.6 per cent of voters had cast their ballots by midday, according to the Electoral Commission.

And despite bars and a clothing brand offering discounts to people with the ink-stained fingers proving they had cast ballots, young voters were markedly absent from polling stations in the capital.

Unemployed graduate Kamilia MIouki, 23, said she had come to ''exercise my right'' by casting a  blank ballot.

''I have no more faith in any political party or electoral list,'' she said.

Tunisians have already voted in parliamentary and presidential elections since the 2011 fall of dictator Zine AI Abidine Ben Ali, but municipal polls had been delayed four times due to logistical, administrative and political deadlocks.

The country was hit by a wave of protest at the start of  the year over a new austerity budget. [AFP]