Internet Scams 101 – Attacking through your E-mail
The Internet is full of fraud and eventually end up in your mailbox. The ingenuity of these people is amazing. Its aim is usually to get to clicking a mail attachment, so they can infect your computer with a virus, a tracking cookie, and / or a Trojan horse.
• COMPUTER VIRUS of fear in our hearts. When a particularly vicious virus comes out, ads are made on television and in newspapers.
• A cookie can be perfectly frank and even useful. For example, when you visit Amazon.com, you get a cookie that allows your computer to recognize you when you go back and remember the kind of thing you're interested in tracking cookies, second, recording the places that connect and what you click on links, telling advertisers what kind of ads should be aimed at you. It is true, do not spread a virus, but it wants a barking hound Internet on the trail? Good anti-spyware remove tracking cookies.
• A Trojan horse pretending to be something that is not, as an e-mail from a friend or something you've ordered. The email text may say, "Here is the information you wanted." Or, "Keep this a secret between you and me." Or, "You just won our first prize!" Anything for you click on the attachment. Once you do, the Trojan horse takes over your computer. You can do anything malicious they want, delete the files to changing your desktop. It then spreads by sending itself to other people in your address book.
A good friend just had his list of Internet addresses stolen, and I've been getting messages purportedly from him since. All they want me to click in an attachment to the e-mail. I sent an email asking him if he had sent that message. There was.
Even if you're smart enough not to click on an attachment of a Trojan horse yourself, one of the friends in your mailing list may do so, your address will be stolen, and you're in the underworld.
Once the scammers get your e-mail, they may use to send malicious e-mails to thousands of people in your name. Usually discover this when I get "I'm out of office" automatic reply messages from people who never heard of. It's frustrating, but know it's not my fault.
• Anti-scam Rule 1: Never click on an attachment from a good friend if they are not positive the friend sent him. It takes only a few minutes to click "Reply" and ask the friend, "Do you really send this?"
• Anti-fraud Rule 2: Do not double click an email attachment containing an executable file as an EXE, VBS, COM or suffix. Once you click it, an executable file can make any kind of damage it wants. (Enough people now know this so that the scammer says: "This accessory is free from virus." If you believe that, I have a nice bridge I'd like you sell.)
• Statement to avoid the scam 3: The equipment can not be infected by an email attachment to unless you click on the attachment. If you simply delete the suspicious message without clicking on a link or the attachment, you're OK.
REAL chutzpah
It is so horrible it's funny, but after the scammers have used his address to thousands theft scam, scam have more up his sleeve. This is the message I sent:
"Your email account is used to send a large amount of spam during this week. Obviously, the team was committed and now contains a trojan proxy server. Please follow the instructions in the text file that is attached to keep your computer safe.
Sincerely,
Foodandfiction.com team. "
My first thought was: "Good. These people are sympathetic to my problem and want to help me." And then I thought, "Wait a minute! This message is supposedly foodandfiction.com team. Food and Fiction, http://foodandfiction.com, me, me, and I and I never sent that message. "Of course, if my email address had been, for example, AOL, the message would have been signed," the team AOL.com. "I could have thought that people loved in AOL were trying to help me, and I clicked on the attachment. This was of course not the scammer, AOL, and would have been infected.
• Anti-fraud Rule 4: After you have won your address will NOT infected with a virus or trojan. If no files are opened suspicious attachments, you all right – but you may want to warn your friends that are going to receive attachments by pretending to be you, what accessories are infected if open.
Coming soon: an article on the hijacking and spyware.
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