22 August 2024 Scam Alerts!

The New Castle Country Department of Police

Community Service Unit

Topics of the Day

• Identity Theft
• Senior Safety
• Personal Safety 
• Call 911 for emergencies
• Call (302) 573-2088 for non-emergencies, notifications, questions

8 August 2024 - Cookies!

 Cookies - the Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Topics of the Day

• News & Comment
• SpaceX & Starliner
• Are you a Pirate?
• My New Desk chair
• Topics of the Day
• What’s a QR code?
• Phone Battery Replacements
• Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't!
• Wife now has a new Pixel 7
• Lessons: backup, backup, backup!
  
• The Pornhub Challenge – Are you 18?
• How do you verify age without ID?
• Now blocked in some states
  
• Cookies – The Good, Bad & Ugly
• The good: 1st party login cookies
• The Bad: 3rd party tracking and advertizing
• The "Ugly": everything else
• How does Apple Safari do it?
• Google is a Monopoly per US Judge
• Because they paid Apple $46B for Safari's default browser search engine
• Incognito / Private Browsing & Cookies

18 July 2024 - NSC Website & Scambusters

The NSC has a new website at https://newarkseniorcenter.com/

There are links for the current Newsletter, Lunch Menu, Calendar and Special Events.  The "Member Portal" is also new, https://newarkseniorcenter.my.site.com/s/login/

Note that any previous accounts you may have created or used at the NSC before 2024 are no longer active and you need to establish a new NSC account.

To see most of the events in the member portal, one has to click the "Register" button.  Due to a glitch in the matrix, multiple clicks of the register button will be required to actually register for any free or paid session.  :-)

--------------

And excellent weekly email newsletter is available here:  https://scambusters.org/   Click the three-line "Hamburger" icon to see the menu.  The current article is a re-visit of various election scams, https://scambusters.org/electionscam3.html 

I was amazed at the number of fake news websites that have been identified and listed here in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fake_news_websites  It is easy to see how one can be taken in by fraudsters.  A quote from the newsletter:

"There are many good fact-checking sites. Where politics and elections are concerned, two of the best ones are FactCheck.org and Politifact.com."