How To Avoid Being A Victim Of The Worst Scam Of All

Scams have been around on the internet for years now and
there nothing new to them. The biggest one of all is
getting information off people when its wasn't necessary
in the first place like your credit card.

Phishing

Phishing in my mind has to be the worst scam of all. You
might not have heard of it before that is whey im writing
this artilce because I didn't even know it existed.

Phishing is a form of identity theft on the internet today.
People will send you emails and direct you to sites which
are fraudulent.

When they get you on the site they asked for your personal
details like what is your credit card number? Social
Security number and other personal information that you
shouldn't be giving to anyone.

Emails

You might get emails though to your email address that
looks like a bank or even papal that warns you about your
account and to click on the link to give more details.

Or they will ask you to fill out a form to confirm your
email address or your home address ect. They might even
ask to fill out your credit card details so it can be
checked.

Scam Artists

These scam artists will make the email look so real and
genuine that you can't tell the difference.

The only way to find out about anything that comes from a
financial institution you belong to is to go and login to
your account and write to customer services or call and ask
them whether it's a genuine email from them.

Links In Emails

When you get an email and has a link on it the you
recognize so you think that its ok to click it because it's
an email that you get all the time from someone watch out
because these scammers install scripts that make the email
look exactly as you have seen it before but as soon as you
click on the link it will re-direct you to the scammers
site where you will be asked to fill in your details or
passwords and user names. These scammers will replicate
entire websites that are well known to all of us to get you
to go to their sites.

Key Loggers

Watch out for key loggers because sometimes these will be
in your emails as attachments.

If you open the one of these attachments the key log will
take over and read every key that your typing. Its an auto
install script and these scammers will send them to you
though your emails.

So never open an email attachment only if you know where
its come from like a family member or someone like that but
apart from the forget about it.

Browser Hijacking

Phishers may also hack into your ISP and browser and take
over them without you ever even knowing about it. You
might experience your internet connection going down more
times than usual.

Be aware of this happening because you could be sharing
your internet connection and your browser with someone
across the world who will know your every move.

They will find out what you like doing over the internet
what sites you go to to buy things ect. Then they will make
duplicates of those sites and get you to buy from them
instead of the genuine website that you always go to.

Summary; People get scammed everyday on the internet and
one day I hope we can stop it. But for now read the above
and takes the steps necessary to at least try to stop it
happening to you.

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Copyright: Charles Goldie 2009
Charlie is currently living in Vallejo, CA, and he is
attending college studying for his associates degree. In
his spare time he writes articles. Charles also maintains a
blog on a regular basis.
http://www.chasgoldie.com/wp

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