The sob stories and the scams that they are!

It is getting hard to make out what is a scam and what is not? with all the opportunities that are there, you would think that these scamsters would at least spend half the time that they spend on their scams and they would be making some good honest money, but unfortunately they prefer to scam us. You may have gotten a few emails of late, telling you a sob story and asking you for money, well, such emails, 99% of them anyway are scams designed to scam you out of your honest money.
So be careful when you click on a link in your email or if you are planning to send some money to some guy so as to help him or her out. It may well turn out to be the scam of the year.

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!

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!