A woman opened up to The Washington Post about an elaborate scam that cost her $600,000 in life savings in the first part of an extensive series launched on Monday. "Sweepstakes and Nigerian letter scams once dominated fraud prevention workshops," wrote the Post's Michelle Singletary. Meanwhile, she continued, our phones and computers "are inundated by phishing, smishing and vishing attacks, …
It is a scene that exudes sadness: a child perhaps 2-1/2 or 3 years old buried in a shallow grave under the sheltered overhang of a cave, head resting on a pillow and the upper part of the body carefully wrapped in a shroud. Scientists said on Wednesday they have found the oldest-known human burial in Africa, the continent that …
