Articles, tagged with "email scams", page 1
How To Avoid Online Scams & Dangers
We all know that the Internet is full of scams, phishing schemes, and frauds. But we also can not live without internet as it is now an integral part of our life. You might be thinking that you are safe, but the truth is something else. Whenever your comp...
Is It Possible To Trace Nigerian Email Scams?
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The Nigerian email scams have been going on for decades. In fact even before the Internet and emailing becalmed commonplace these Nigerian. Today they are perpetrated almost entirely over the Internet via ...
StrathclydeUni and Associates Quick Facts on Email Scams, Fraud and Boiler Rooms
Strathclyde community and association quick facts on email scams, fraud and boiler rooms. A warning before investing and how to protect your personal information online.
Some email users have lost money to bogus offers that arrived as spam in their in-...
Strathclyde ANTI-PHISHING AS A WEB-BASED USER SERVICE Scam
Strathclyde University Associates - This paper describes the recent phenomenon of phishing, in which email messages are sent to unwitting recipients in
order to elicit personal information and perpetrate identity theft and financial fraud. A variety of e...
A Multi-faceted approach to online security
Cyber crime, and general online malfeasance, are a continuing threat to all aspects of online life, including owning and running a website. For instance, in 2009 the FBI reported a 28% increase in internet crime complaints, compared to 2008. The threats i...
How To Avoid Internet Job Scams
With unemployment at the highest rate since the early 1980's record numbers of people are desperately searching for work. The Internet is the medium most job seekers turn to today as do con artists who use the Internet for fraud by preying on the unsusp...
Avoid Telemarketing & Email Scams
Every year, many people from all backgrounds are scammed millions of dollars in a variety of ways. Some of the most common frauds, and those that you are least likely to recover your money from, have been carried out over the phone or by email. One reason...
Protect Yourselves from Latest Scams by Janice Nobler
Janice Nobler is an internet expert who discovered this latest scams over the net. Here is Janice Nobler new discovered for some latest scams.
Everyday you hear of scams in the news channels or read about them in news papers and today scam is the most...
“How To Spot A Foreclosure Scam: A Guide to Common Fraud Warning Signs”
A rise in mortgage delinquencies is often accompanied by an increase in foreclosure rescue scams. The prospect of losing your home and damaging your credit is enough to scare anyone, but when you add the additional threat of being duped out of your hard...
Email Scam Targets Home Stagers
In case you were still wondering how many people have heard of home staging, here's further proof that this is a well established field. It seems the scam artists are starting to crawl out from under their rocks to see if they can con home stagers into se...
Identity Theft – Do Not Let Fear Cause You To Fall For IRS Email Scams
You have to give identity thieves some credit these days. They no longer just go over the line when it comes to some of their email scams. Now, they are going as far as possible by absconding with the identity of the IRS in an effort to cause you to kick ...
When Hormel Foods Takes the Fight Out of Spam…
In the past few years Hormel Foods Corporation has been doing the legal rounds in preventing software companies from using the word "spam" in the branding of their junk email fighting products. An Associated Press (AP) article recently said Hormel was afr...
Winning Tactics to Avoid Email Scams
Email scams have flourished due to the ease and cost
effectiveness with which people can now communicate using the
internet and email.
There are also ways to maintain anonymity when sending
emails.
This has provided fertile opportunities for sca...
A Closer Look at Advanced Fee Fraud....
Advance Fee Fraud - a closer look
Advanced Fee Fraud can often be the most costly of Email scams out there, suckering thousands every year out of hundreds of thousands of dollars every year. They are certainly the most popular type of email scam, and t...
Identify theft. What is it and how do you protect yourself from it?
What is identity theft?
Identity theft is when a person steals personal information, such as the name, address, birth date, Social Security number or mother's maiden name from another person in order to commit fraud. The thief then uses this informatio...