Scammed by email link!

We all have heard of "Phishing"
well for those of you who do not know what 'phishing' is all about it is all about scamming.well,I am sure that by now you must have allr eceived somme email or the other,supposedly from Yahoo or Google,asking you to click on the link in THAT email and login.the problem is that if you click on the link in the email,then your login id as well as password will be obtained by the scammer.the link in the email will contain a code which enables the scammer to obtain the user id and password while allowing you to Log in.
But keep in mind that as you login the scammer obtains your login id and password at the same time.recently a top travel agent received an email allegedly from yahoo,but sent by a scammer telling him that something was wrong with his email account and that for security reasons he would have to log into his email using the link in the email.the problem was that email account was the one that the Travel agent used to condut gis business with and naturally the email account contained all the vital info for his business.once he clicked on the link and logged in,all his details went to the scammer and now his business info is being misused and he is not able to log back into this OWN email account.so the next time you get a link in your email,be careful!

Lottery scam! beware!

We all like to have a free lunch but the truth is that there is no such thing as a free lunch.there are may scamsters online and they all try their best to take undue advantage of us all.the lottery scam is one such scam.you may receive an email one day telling you that you have won a lottery and that email will ask you to contact a person whose number would have been given on that email.you will call up that person thinking that since you were able to reach him/her on the phone therefore this must the the real thing.and that person will tell you that in order to claim your millions of dollars of prize money you must send across some money to them to cover the transfer charges so that they can wire the money t0o your account.you think that you are going to be a millionaire and you would end up sending the required money which may be 200$ onwards.but then the scamster strikes.once they have gotten your money that is the last you will hear of him/her.your money is as good as gone.and even if you report this to the authorities and they try to trace the telephone number given in the email,they will soon find out that either it was a temp number or that the number is no longer in use.this is the 'lottery' scam ladies and gentlemen.please remember the following.
1.you cannot win a lottery without entering one
2.lottery companies more often than not contact their winners personally
3.no lottery company will ask you to pay any service charge/transfer charge
4.lottery company winnings can generally be viewed online .so use that to confirm whatever the email says.
5.there is indeed no such thing as a free lunch!

Phishing!

Phishing,i guess the name takes after 'fishing' because that is what it is really all about.fishing for information about you,your bank acounts,your paypal details,or any of your personal information.when it comes to scams,most if not all scams relay on one common factor,and that is human greed.we all love to receive free money but we all must remember that there is no such thing as a free lunch.not now,not ever!
Phishing generally is in the form of an email addressed to you and it may look like it is coming from a reputed company or something like that.the email in quesiton will say that you either have money in your account or that your account needs to be corrected or that you need to enter your bank details and so forth and such emails will give you a link and they will say that you must click on the link to login.say you have a paypal account,a phoshing email will ask you to login from that email itself with the link it would have provided.and when you do that,you will end up going to a site that will look like the paypal site but in reality it is asite set up by the scamster so as to get your paypal password.andonce you do that,you may as well say goodbye to the monies you have in your paypal account.so to avoid being caught by such 'phishing' scams,always open a fresh browser and then log in!it pays to be carefu and more so in the virtual world of the Internet!

Internet fallacy!

This is indeed the age of the internat and what most of us seem to take for granted is that there will always be some storage space for our data.but what most of us do not realise is that we are fast accumulating data,useless bits and bytes of information and that we are indeed running out of space to store this useless data.for example,lets take our email inboxes,how many spam mails do we all acuumulate.do we delete or report them,no,we do not.we do not do any of those because we are all getting a bit too lazy.so what happens to it is that our email providers store the spam,treat it as an important mail and thereby are wasting valuable storage space.in the near and not too distant future,space is going to be a premium.we will end up actually paying email providers to sore useless bits of data.if all the cyber data were to be made into a string it would probably streach from earth all the way to the 'oort cloud'.
this is indeed the new age ladies and gentlemen,when we are not only running out of real space[due to population] but we are also fast running out of cyber space as well!