Internet Scams

Hi Readers,


The rise of the internet has opened up the world to millions of people. It is now possible to do things that were unheard of only ten, or even five, years ago.

Unfortunately, the internet is not free from scams and scammers. Some scams are especially designed to take advantage of the way the internet works.

A lot of internet scams take place without the victim even noticing. It is only when their credit card statement or phone bill arrives that the person realises that they might have been scammed.

There are, however, a number of ways to protect yourself from internet scams. They are simple precautions you can take and are essential because you often cannot be sure exactly who you are dealing with on the internet.

How you access the internet can also make a difference. If you take the right precautions, the chances of being scammed are greatly reduced.

To avoid receiving scams and spam mails, you may do the following (but this will not garrantee that you will not receive scams or spam mails):

1. Avoid filling-up in the site that requires you to enter your Name, Email, Address, Telephone No. etc. As much as possible don’t give your personal particulars to those unknown sites.

2. When you received mail with suspicious title (most specially if it appears in your Spam mail box) do not open, immediately delete it permanently. Note that some spam mails are also appearing in the Inbox folder.

3. When you received authorized email in your Spam folder, select it and click Not Spam (for Yahoo and Google) then it will automatically move into your Inbox folder.

4. Block those email addresses that send Spam emails.

5. When you received advertisements from unknown site, knowing that you never even register to it, try to unsubscribe by clicking its unsubscribe link (mostly it appears at the bottom part of the email content). After unsubscribing, it states how long when it can be unsubscribed youre account, but if after that period and you still receiving emails from it, block the email address.

NOTE: Please bare in mind also that there are internet users who use other’s name and email when they are registering to other sites. There are advertisement sites (even other sites) also that sell their registered users’ particular, so before registering to unknown sites, be very careful and read first their Terms and Conditions. If there is no Terms and Conditions, I suggest dont enter your personal particulars (because they may also capture information from the fields even the moment you are just typing in the text fields) and dont proceed to register.

Click here to see Sample of Scam/Spam Emails

That’s all folks. Hope this would help.


Best Regards,
Shaper Jabneel