Gen: hoax site

[Jo Anne Collins <JoCollins@AOL.COM>]

We've all talked about finding good examples to show students.

On NPR radio I heard an interview with Susan Wyderko, who runs the
investor education office at the Securities and Exchange Commission.
She was talking about hoax sites that they have planted purposefully to
teach people how to watch out for scams.

Their sites look real and "feel" real to the people searching the
Internet for investment opportunities.

If you want to hear the radio interview... go to www.npr.org
They have 6 yrs of archived materials.  Do a search for her by name and
then the date of Jan 30, 2002.

The hoax site is Mcwhortle ... there's a link at the bottom of the
interview site.  (www.mcwhortle.com)

When the people are ready to invest and click on the button... they get
a little surprise!  They have been SCAMMED ... and then are educated
about using the Internet for investment purposes.

Hope this might be useful to some of you.

Jo Anne Collins,L/MS
Van Buren Middle School
Kettering OH
jcollins@kettering.k12.oh.us

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