Mexico, MO in the news but not in Mexico, MO last week

Wednesday this past week, the St. Louis TV stations and newspaper were all over a story about the "Logo Hat Bandit" bank robber being apprehended after robbing 9 banks in the St. Louis area. Turns out the "Logo Hat Bandit" is from Mexico, Missouri. The picture of the bank robber in the news looked scary. I used the picture.

Where Do These People Come From?

I ran the story Wednesday after getting a news tip.

What did the Ledger do?

A small story buried back on page 5 (and no picture) in Thursday's edition. And the only story the Ledger had was an AP wire story, making it appear that no one from the Ledger even knew the guy had made the news in St. Louis.

Did the story make it to the Ledger's web site? Of course not.

A story that's in TV headlines and front page news in St. Louis involving a man from Mexico, Missouri is buried on page 5?

That's a disgrace to journalism and a disgrace to Mexico, Missouri.

The "Good Old Boys Network" being exposed and drawing national attention from the authorities is also a disgrace for Mexico, MO in that it's something the Ledger should have been reporting on decades ago.

I have a feeling we've only seen the tip of the iceberg with the "Good Old Boys Network" in Mexico, MO.

19th century English historian, British Lord Acton said, "Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men."

That was a quote from a very long time ago and was a reference to Caesar, Henry the VIII, Napoleon and other "great men" in history.

It's a shame "absolute power corrupts absolutely" is still true today in Mexico, Missouri.

Indeed.

So it goes.

Poor Phishing

I received not one, but two copies of the email below.

It appeared to come from this email address: info@support.com

But it really came from this address:  helpdesks18@yahoo.com

That's a free Yahoo! email account commonly used by spammers and phishers to prey on unsuspecting people.

You may notice the English being used in the email is what we might call "broken English". Oy.

Also worth mentioning, the site referenced in the link you're supposed to click on (my3q.com) is in Hong Kong. I seriously doubt the real MiamiDade.gov website is using someone in Hong Kong for anything. (I say that because Asia and Eastern Europe are notorious for being the origination points of spammers and phishers).

So it goes.

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reset.

 We are sorry for any inconvenience caused by this, inability to complete
information on the form within 24 hours will enable message center render
your e-mail in-active from our database a Quarantine Maintainance will
help us prevent this everyday dilemma, to re-validate your mailbox Please
Click on the link below by filling information on the Form, by clicking
on the link below:

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 You will receive an e-mail within 48 hours when your mailbox account is
moved to the new database, also confirm your email address and password
within 24hours later after you have provided us your account details for
upgrade by filling information on the Form you will then logging into
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