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Everyone listens to Walter Mossberg, by Ken Auletta. The New Yorker profiles West Warwick's own.

Hitman scam: Seen the email? The FBI knows all about it. Even though he knows your last name, he's not really going to kill you. He's a spammer. Here's one that came to a relative:

I am very sorry for you XXXXXXX, is a pity that this is how your life is going to end as soon as you don't comply. As you can see there is no need of introducing myself to you because I don't have any business with you, my duty as I am mailing you now is just to KILL you and I have to do it as I have already been paid for that.

Someone you call a friend wants you Dead by all means, and the person have spent a lot of money on this, the person also came to us and told me that he want you dead and he provided us with your name ,picture and other necessary information's we needed about you.
So I sent my boys to track you down and they have carried out the necessary investigation needed for the operation on you, and they have done that but I told them not to kill you that I will like to contact you and see if your life is Important to you or not since their findings shows that you are innocent.

I called my client back and ask him of you email address which I didn't
tell him what I wanted to do with it and he gave it to me and I am using it to contact you now. As I am writing to you now my men are monitoring you and they are telling me everything about you.

Now do you want to LIVE OR DIE? As someone has paid us to kill you. Get back to me now if you are ready to pay some fees to spare your life, $30,000 is all you need to spend You will first of all pay $15,000 then I will send the tape to you and when the tape get to you, you will pay the remaining $15,000. If you are not ready for my help, then I will carry on with my job straight-up.

WARNING: DO NOT THINK OF CONTACTING THE POLICE OR EVEN TELL ANYONE BECAUSE I WILL KNOW.REMEMBER, SOMEONE WHO KNOWS YOU VERY WELL WANT YOU DEAD! I WILL EXTEND IT TO YOUR FAMILY, INCASE I NOTICE SOMETHING FUNNY.

DO NOT COME OUT ONCE IT IS 7:PM UNTIL I MAKE OUT TIME TO SEE YOU AND GIVE YOU THE TAPE OF MY DISCUSSION WITH THE PERSON WHO WANT YOU DEAD THEN YOU CAN USE IT TO TAKE ANY LEGAL ACTION. GOOD LUCK AS I AWAIT YOUR
REPLY

Urban legends clearinghouse Snopes.com has more on this.

Sidebar: The only Google News result for "hitman scam" comes from Tyler, Texas, TV station KLTV, where they know a "good story not happening here" when they see it (7 On Your Side: Disturbing Email Scam Threatening To Kill You, June 5):

(Tyler police Sgt. Darren Grissom) says there have been no reports of anyone in Tyler receiving an email like this. But heed the warning because if you fall for it Grissom says, "The odds of you getting your money back are minuscule. It probably won't happen."

Feed your head music: Rock Rap Confidential is a newsletter shoveled onto the Web, complete with where to snail-mail your $15 subscription payment. Links are rare, except when they're in a table that overwrites the text.

Never mind. Dave Marsh's pithy reviews are worth the aggravation: They make me want to hear the music.

Here's a sample from THIS MONTH'S DOWNLOADING PROSPECTS... at the end of What's Confidential This Month (Ignore the funny code droppings):

Blues de Musicien, Pine Leaf Boys (Arhoolie)‹Five young guys from Louisiana who obsessively study Cajun musical and social history (including nearly extinct dialects), all in the service of further improving their dense, intense musical gumbo. Their chops can be jaw-dropping but, like a good club DJ, it¹s about keeping the dance floor packed and happy. Highlights include the title track¹s sad tale of the musician¹s life and ³Ma Petite Femme,² a raunchy, wrenching blues. Listen

Mind Control, Stephen Marley (Tuff Gong/Universal Republic)‹Somewhat similar to brother Damien Marley¹s masterful 2005 Welcome to Jamrock, which Stephen helped to write and produce. But this mélange of roots and dancehall is, with its pop and world flavorings, more gentle and nuanced, a soulful suite both personal and political. He also comes across as a contemporary of his father Bob. Quite an achievement.

Live in Dublin, Bruce Springsteen and the Sessions Band (Columbia)‹Where a 20 piece band playing folk songs turns out to mean Waylon Jennings¹ ³Love of the Common People,² his own ³If I Should Fall Behind² as a waltz, and Cindy Mizell testifying her heart out on ³This Little Light of Mine.² The best backing band he ever has had only got better as the players got more familiar with one another, as this end of tour document proves. Hats off to Larry Eagle for making Bruce swing at last.

Home Taping (reviews) are nice, too.

Also pithy: Mythbusters results. All the conclusions.

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