Wednesday, 11 June 2014

Mary Berners-Lee: An Unlikely Fraud Victim

As crime victims go, a 90-year-old pensioner might appear typical. But Mary Berners-Lee is a highly regarded mathematician who helped create the world's first commercial computer, the Ferranti Mark I. She is also the mother of Tim Berners-Lee, the man who invented the world wide web. Yet even she was outsmarted by the courier scammers. Watch the video

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-27688173

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