Online Cell Phone Scams and Spam (17 Dec 2006) This article offers some quick but crucial tips on detecting fradulent spam and scams from emails with special focus on the cellular and wireless industry. Webmasters should protect themselves from the quick gain; constant vigilence is the key.
Are Your Emails Hazardous To Your Health (05 Dec 2006) A short article dealing with 5 tips to help protect the internet user from identity theft, fraud, and phishing when using emails.
How To Recognize A Phishing Email Message (01 Dec 2006) Phishing is the practice of sending fraudulent email messages
supposedly from a legitimate company or organization in order
to trick someone into giving out personal and confidential
information. This information could include a user ID,
password, credit card number or even a Social Security number.
At its most basic level, Phishing is a form of identity theft.
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.
