Email Scams – Ten Simple Steps To Avoiding Them (01 Dec 2006) According to the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) email scams
also known as phishing attacks claim more than 2,000 victims
each day from more than 75 million phishing emails that are
sent each day. The APWG also claims that these email scams
steal close to $1 billion a year from its victims.
Internet Scams 101 -- Attacking You Through Your E-mail (01 Dec 2006) The Internet is filled with scams, and eventually they wind up
in your e-mail box. The ingenuity of these people is
astonishing. Their goal is usually to get you to click on an
e-mail attachment, so they can infect your computer with a
virus, a tracking cookie, and/or a trojan horse.
Spam – Problem Of Vital Importance On The Internet (01 Dec 2006) Almost everyone who accesses the Internet and uses e-mail knows
about spam. The common definition of spam is e-mail that is
unsolicited, undesired by the recipient. Spam is sent out by
automated programs to thousands or millions email addresses at
a time. In most cases spam emails offer you different services,
products (medicines, goods, software programs etc.), and "get
rich quickly" plans. You can simply delete them if you receive
several unsolicited emails per day. But if you get tens or
hundreds spam messages every day, it is a real problem. In
order to understand how to deal with spam in your inbox, let's
examine some core questions concerning spam.
Are You A Spam Zombie? (28 Nov 2006) Do you know your computer could be responsbile for sending spam without you even knowing about it?
Cost of Spam and Why Use Anti-Spam Filter (07 Nov 2006) E-mail is now being abused. The flow of spam on the Internet is the proof. It is annoying to download hundreds of disgusting spam emails into the inbox looking for some legitimate messages. Not only you waste your valuable time to delete junk emails by hand, you also waste your money as each spam message in your inbox takes precious kilobytes of bandwidth you paid for.
