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 [...]
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Things You Need to Know about Email Fraud
So far, the emails that have been sent congratulating someone for winning a lottery constitute 10% of this year’s sent emails according to the MessageLabs. This is actually three times more than that of last year. According to some, the economic crisis, which has started off at the end of the year, is among the [...]
Spammers’ Online Invasion
Spam problems getting worse
The continuing economic instability caused the surging of spammers, according to some reports. The 2008 annual report of MessageLabs states that last year’s economic crisis only leads to an increase in finance-related spams, which is expected to get worse this year. Well, you don’t have to be surprised anymore if every time [...]
Tips to Avoid Spam
Spam or junk mail is becoming a serious problem of Internet users today. Spam is defined by some as an unsolicited email that is sent to various email addresses in bulk. A spam usually contains email that advertises a certain product. It becomes a problem when every time you open your email account, there is [...]
Beware of the Trojan Horse
When a computer starts to run poorly or inefficiently, people would almost always have an assumption that it is caused by a virus. A virus may be a malicious program, but it is not the only malicious program that is capable of damaging the computer. For all you know, the culprit behind your computer’s poor [...]