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February 7th, 2009:

Email Bankruptcy

Feb 7th, 2009
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What is email bankruptcy

Are you bothered with the accumulating stacks of email on your email account? One of the options is by ending everything and starting a new. You can do this by declaring email bankruptcy. Declaring email bankruptcy means you have to clear your account and start afresh. Usually, people declared email bankruptcy when they do not have time to process new emails and keep up with the old ones. One of the famous personalities who declared email bankruptcy is Lawrence Lessig. Lessig is a professor at Stanford Law School and founder of its Center for Internet and Society. He declared email bankruptcy in 2004. Another is Michael Arrington, who maintains TechCrunch, a blog on Silicon Valley technology.

How can you declare email bankruptcy

Although declaring email bankruptcy may give you the notion of a long and complicated process, it is actually an easy and short process. All you have to do is to put the email addresses that you deem important in your BCC and write a message containing your intention. You have to make sure that your declaration of email bankruptcy is short and straight to the point. Then you should open your inbox and select the messages that you want to delete. You don’t have to delete the messages one by one, you can just mark all the files for deletion and then hit the delete button. The deleted files can still be recovered by experts. Though, it is best that you make sure that you won’t be needing the files that you plan to delete.

Bogus Phishing Attack

Feb 7th, 2009
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Last month, there was a large-scale phishing attack on banks and credit unions according to the Federal Reserve Bank. Because of this, the US Department of Treasury restricted federal wire transfers. This news, of course, caused various people to panic. However, the news was actually a bogus one. There was no actual phishing attack the happened. Aside from this, the federal wire transfers worked smoothly. The news was actually a hoax, and a believable one.

What are the motives in perpetrating bogus news

There are various of reasons cyber criminals spread email hoaxes. For one, they enjoy the fact that they’ve created some sort of commotion. In the case of the hoax on Federal Reserve Bank, the purpose may be more serious than that. The cyber criminal or cyber organization responsible for this fraudulent mail may want to spread dangerous software. The bogus news update actually contains a link leading to a pornographic site that has a trojan malware.

How can you avoid hoax email

One of the first and most important steps that you should do to avoid hoax is to learn how to identify one. It is important that you keep a critical eye when reading controversial messages. It is also necessary that you avoid clicking the links in a site, especially if you are not certain whether the site is authentic or not. If you want to visit the site to verify information, it is best that you type the URL in the browser instead of clicking links. Through this, you can easily avoid the automatically installing malware.

Identifying Email Hoaxes

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Email hoaxes that find their way to a person’s email address are too numerous to count. Though Internet users handled lots of email hoaxes in the past, still a new one that reaches the inbox alerts many online users. With todays sophisticated types of malware and virus, it is not surprising that Internet users take some hoaxes seriously.

Glad it was just a hoax

Receiving a message stating that you have been infected by a virus when you opened a specific email, for instance, can cause you to worry. But the moment you found out that the email is a hoax, you may feel a surge of relief. But this hoax should not be taken lightly. Hoaxes can be as dangerous as a virus and malware. For instance, a circulating hoax claims to be infected with a virus and states that the instant that you receive that same message, a virus will infect your program as well, so you have to delete your files. If you take this seriously, just imagine the damage this hoax will inflict on you.

How to spot an email hoax

It is not bad to be skeptical about every email that enters your mail box; however, it is an advantage if you evaluate the email carefully before making any move. When you open an email, watch out if the message commands you to forward it to others; this is the most common feature of many hoaxes. Be skeptical also of emails that strongly assert that they are not  hoaxes; most of the time, they are. Last, before passing judgment, you have to analyze the email critically.

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