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February 4th, 2009:

Keeping Your Email Account Away from Spams

Feb 4th, 2009
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With all the spams that reached your email inbox, it’s really important that you protect the privacy of your email address. Unwanted emails can be annoying and, to some extent, even dangerous. So the best thing that you should do is to give your email address only to the people you trust. But this should not discourage you from using your email address to make transactions online. If you intend to purchase something or subscribe to an online newsletter, you need to hand over your email address. Below are some tips on how to ensure that your mailbox would not be flooded with spams once you hand over your email address to commercial sites.

Opt for a reputable site

Many reputable sites would not jeopardize their name for spamming. So if you make transactions in reputable online companies, you can be fairly sure that they would not flood your account with spam. Sites of well-known institutions usually provide a statement about your email privacy at the sign-up page. Just make sure that you read the statement carefully.

Inquire about the privacy policy

Usually, the online company that requires you to hand over your email address has a privacy policy. Read the policy and take note about what they would do to the collected email addresses. Will it be used for future product advertisement? Or will it be passed around to other online companies? When there is no privacy policy provided, you can inquire by sending email or calling the customer support team of that online company.

Tips in Composing an Email

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Whether you are going to apply for a job or just going to greet a friend, an email can be the most efficient communication tool that you can use. Sending messages or files through email is less expensive than other traditional means such as sending letters and documents by post or courier. Your message can also arrive in just a matter of seconds from the moment you send it. And if the recipient is online, you can expect a response in no time at all.

Tips in writing an email

The content of your email and the way it should be written will, of course, depend on your intended recipient. If you are going to send your email to your boss, you have to be very careful with your spelling, word usage, and other technicalities. For a friend, however, you don’t have to worry with your spelling or other language conventions, especially if the email is intended to a very close friend. You should make sure that your message is clear. You also have to remember that communicating through email lacks the advantage of seeing the gesture and facial expressions of the other person, so it is really important that you make you make your message clear and direct to the point. Using sarcasm is also not effective because you don’t have a way of knowing if someone really intends to crack a joke or is actually serious.

Subject lines should not be forgotten when sending an email. The subject is important because it can give the recipient an idea of what your message is all about. You have to make your subject line brief, but it should be enough to reveal the topic of your email.

A Trojan Knows How to Hack

Feb 4th, 2009
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You may not be aware of it, but you can already be a victim of cybercrime. If you transact business online, there is a big chance that your software has already been hacked. Today, with various sophisticated malware, it is not very difficult for hackers to obtain personal information from you. One of the prevalent malware is Trojan. Last year, it was reported that a cyber crime organization obtained the passwords, usernames, and account numbers of thousands of bank accounts by using the Trojan malware.

How Trojan aids cyber criminals

Some people believe that Trojan is not as harmful as a virus or a worm. But contrary to this belief, Trojan can be just as dangerous, if not more. The serious danger lies when it is used by cyber criminals to hack information. To obtain information, the Trojan waits for the user to enter a specific URL and then it replaces the URL with a fake one. It then keeps the information that the user has encoded. What’s more, a Trojan cannot easily be detected by your typical anti-virus software. So you may not know it if your computer has already been infected with one.

Tips to avoid being hacked

Though Trojan can evade anti-virus software, it is still best that you install one and keep it constantly updated. You should also take extra care when dealing with spam email that asks for your private information. It’s vital that you avoid sending our your passwords and your bank account and credit card numbers through email. And if you want to visit the website of a financial or academic institution, type the URL directly instead of clicking some links.

Avoiding the Phishing Bait

Feb 4th, 2009
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One of the most dangerous cyber crimes is email phishing. Phishing is an identity theft that occurs in the web. In this scam, a person is being lured to divulge some personal information by scammers who take the identities of reliable people and legitimate organizations. One of the factors that make phishing very dangerous is that the websites, email addresses, and the information that scammers provide look almost authentic. Another reason phishing is dangerous is that your anti-virus and firewall cannot detect phishing emails. Your anti-spam cannot also prevent these emails from entering your computer system because phishing emails do really appear legitimate.

The phishing bait

Initially, a target victim receives an email. The email claims to come from legitimate offices, such as academic institutions and financial institutions. If the email looks authentic and if the address seems credible, the unsuspecting victim easily falls for the bait that scammers set. The victim would then give away important information such as bank account numbers, email passwords, and credit card numbers.

Don’t be the next victim

Keeping a skeptical eye on every email that you receive is one of the basic things that you can do to avoid being the next phishing scam victim. If you receive an email from seemingly authentic institutions that ask you for some information, you have to go directly to the institution’s official website and make inquiries. Security experts also recommend that you read the email as plain text. When you have identified a phishing scam, you can report it to the Federal Trade Commission or to the insitution which the phishing mail spoofed.

Obama’s Campaign: Not Yet Done?

Feb 4th, 2009
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The US presidential election is over, so there’s no need for Obama to raise fund for his campaign, yet there are lots of people who keep on receiving emails containing solicitations for the National Democratic Committee. There are also those who have received emails advertising limited edition Obam shirts, mugs, and other “collectibles.”

Well, with the current economic crisis, receiving fraudulent emails such as these should not surprise you anymore. These emails are really a nuisance. For one, these emails eat up a lot of your time. Instead of going directly to yourimportant emails, you still have to deal with these kinds of irritating emails. Aside from this, opening some of these emails can put your computer at risk. For all you know, these emails carry malicious software or contain links to malicious sites.

How to get rid of fraud emails

If you are one of those who have received an email asking for donation for Obama or selling some products such as mugs and caps of the current US president, you don’t have to put up with these emails. There are ways by which you can avoid receiving these emails in the future.

One of the things that you should do is to activate your software’s anti-spam features. The anti-spam tool can block other messages from those senders. For those emails that are already in your mail box, you can mark them and decide if you want to retain or delete them. And the most important thing that you should keep in mind is to NEVER send a reply to the return address, because this may encourage the sender to send various other fraudulent emails to your account.

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