Web scam hoodwinks web founding father Even the inventor of the
world wide web isn't immune from online crime. Sir Tim Berners-
Lee, who developed the idea for today's interwebs two decades
ago, has told The Telegraph he was recently hoodwinked by a
fraudulent website when he went online to buy a Christmas
present. "The moment I called the 0800 number listed on the
website, there was a very polite message saying this number is
available if you would like to use it, so a little bit of due
diligence on my part would have revealed it wasn't what it was
set up to be," the British-born professor at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology told the paper. He went on to say that
internet service providers needed to do more to make sure the
net is a safer place for their customers. "I personally feel
that if you have systems that allow you to isolate the infected
systems and cut them off until they have been disinfected, it
would be a way of preserving service for everyone else," he
said. "It would reduce the amount