I get a friend request from a friend on Facebook. Hi, she says, have you heard the good news? It seems that she has been awarded $100,000 from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Sometimes from some unspecified Federal agency that is giving out large sums of money to random people for no obvious reason (because hey, that's how the federal government works, isn't it). And guess what? I'm on the recipient list too! All I have to do to get my money is send an email to some guy to register my claim. She gives me the email address of some guy. The deal is, I've won $$$$ and I send $ to register my claim It's a bit odd, because I'm already friends with my friend - how come she is sending me a friend request? And when I look at her profile, it's all new. So I check - and lo and behold, my friend is wholly unaware of having sent me a friend request today. We report it to Facebook, and after a few hours the ...