’ve been inundated attracts the unwary. They usually
recently by emails saying start with ‘Please help me’ and
‘You’ve received a greeting go on to request your help in
card from a school mate’ and ‘freeing’ funds from an overseas
‘You’ve received a postcard from organization. Before you know it
a worshipper!’ or similar. you will have divulged your bank
account information and sent a
Being of a suspicious mind I small ‘token’ amount to cover
didn’t click on any of these. A transfer fees or legal fees or
brief search would show you that similar requests.
these links take you to sites
that attempt to drive malware on What about the ‘Prizewinner’s
to your computer or tempt you to Scam’? Seen that one? Tempting
click on virus laden downloads. isn’t it? Here’s an email
Quite simply – don’t click on claiming that you’ve won millions
anything you don’t trust! in a prize winning draw or
lottery and all you have to do is
But it put me in mind of other email back, with personal
famous email scams that are details, to claim it! Well it
becoming more prevalent now that might seem a bit strange that you
the harvesting of email addresses haven’t entered the draw or
seems to be reaching epidemic lottery concerned but then, wow,
proportions. you must have struck lucky. But
don’t, please don’t reply.
One of the other common scams I They’ll hook you in just like a
see in my Junk Email folder each fish on a line.
day is the variations on the
‘Nigerian Scam’. These prey on There again Oprah must be
the reader’s willingness to help disgusted that her name’s been
and the innate greed that stolen by the ‘Oprah Paypal
Scam’. This one’s a clever turn obvious ones. Ever been seduced
on the mail-link-letter system by the ‘Data Entry Scam’, the
that used to clog up the mail ‘$1.67 a Day Scam’ or the
systems except that here you send ‘Western Union Scam’, amongst
a small sum to the name on the others? Forewarned is forearmed.
top of the list in the hope of I’ll explain all about them and
receiving thousands back. Wave exactly what to watch out for at
bye-bye to your cash! wealth-providers(dot)com.
But these are just the more
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