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UK Town Halls to map tension hotspots->

Submitted by AlzaF
AlzaF writes "Quoting part of the article:

More than 10 million people are to have their everyday disputes, their politics and their business lives checked by new "tension monitoring" committees.

The committees are to be set up to try to cut the risk of riots or disturbances in the aftermath of terrorist outrages or outbreaks of local racial trouble.

They will ask for and file reports on named troublemakers whose political activities are considered to be raising community tensions.

Reports on the behaviour and attitudes of local residents will be collected by community workers, neighbourhood wardens, local councillors and provided by voluntary organisations, according to a paper published by Communities Secretary Hazel Blears today.

It will then be considered by the monitoring committees run by town halls."

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Ssophisticated phishing attempt

Submitted by AlzaF
AlzaF writes "I received an email that I assumed was from amazon.com claiming that my account was compromised and that I had to enter my account via supplied link.

When I clicked on link, it did look like the amazon site but the weblink was not the same as amazon.com. Luckily I looked at email again and noticed it was sent to my other email adresss which is not linked to my amazon account. I have sent an email to Amazon to notify them.

Can you please notify readers of slashdot.org of us.

For reference this is the contents of the email. The email was titled Restore your Amazon.com Account Access and was sent from service@amazon.com

Dear Amazon.com Customer,

  You have received this email because we have strong reason to believe that your Amazon account had been recently compromised. In order to prevent any fraudulent activity from occurring we are required to open an investigation into this matter.

  If your account is not updated within the next 24 hours, then will assume this account is fraudulent and will be suspended. We apologize for this inconvenience, but the purpose of this verification is to ensure that your Amazon account has not fraudulently used and to combat fraud.
  To speed up the process, you are required to verify your Amazon account by following the link below:

  https://www.amazon.com/.up/gp/css/homepage.html/re f=topnav_ya_/002-7092166-1132864/login.php?cmd=sig n-in

    We apologize in advance for any inconvenience this may have caused you and we would like to thank you for cooperation as we review this matter.

  Regards,
  Amazon.com Online.

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