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Is Facebook Evolving into a Burglars Best Friend?
Popular and leading social networking site Facebook has hardly been out of the news recently, and for the most part that has been down to privacy issues. The nature of a social networking site is to allow its users to share information, but is Facebook allowing or even encouraging its members to share too much, to too many? It was inevitable that a site as prolific as Facebook was going to have to... (posted by Craig 1 year 254 days ago.)
Popular and leading social networking site Facebook has hardly been out of the news recently, and for the most part that has been down to privacy issues. The nature of a social networking site is to allow its users to share information, but is Facebook allowing or even encouraging its members to share too much, to too many? It was inevitable that a site as prolific as Facebook was going to have to... (posted by Craig 1 year 254 days ago.)
Chain Emails - To forward or not to forward? That is the question.
The psychology of chain emails, chain email etiquette and why you should always think twice about hitting the forward button. Strangely enough, I don't answer the obvious question as to why you shouldn't send chain emails until the end. But anyway. 99% of chain emails are a complete waste of time. That is as close to a fact as you can get within the subject of chain emails... (posted by Craig 1 year 314 days ago.)
The psychology of chain emails, chain email etiquette and why you should always think twice about hitting the forward button. Strangely enough, I don't answer the obvious question as to why you shouldn't send chain emails until the end. But anyway. 99% of chain emails are a complete waste of time. That is as close to a fact as you can get within the subject of chain emails... (posted by Craig 1 year 314 days ago.)
Scareware Scams - What is Scareware? - detecting and removing Scareware
What is "scareware" and what can you do to detect and protect yourself from it? If you are not already familiar with the scams that experts and media have dubbed "scareware" then we'll start by explaining it. Essentially everyone these days knows that a major security issue regarding the Internet is harmful computer software like computer viruses and Trojan horses and other... (posted by Craig 2 years 155 days ago.)
What is "scareware" and what can you do to detect and protect yourself from it? If you are not already familiar with the scams that experts and media have dubbed "scareware" then we'll start by explaining it. Essentially everyone these days knows that a major security issue regarding the Internet is harmful computer software like computer viruses and Trojan horses and other... (posted by Craig 2 years 155 days ago.)
The Truth About Fraud, Scams, Scammers and Western Union (and MoneyGram)
I briefly touched on the subject of Western Union and MoneyGram in a previous article about shipping scams, but here I want to concentrate on the facts, rumours and fallacies going around about how instant money wiring services like Western Union are utilised by cyberspace thieves. In the current age of almost being able to track any online financial... (posted by Craig 2 years 171 days ago.)
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I briefly touched on the subject of Western Union and MoneyGram in a previous article about shipping scams, but here I want to concentrate on the facts, rumours and fallacies going around about how instant money wiring services like Western Union are utilised by cyberspace thieves. In the current age of almost being able to track any online financial... (posted by Craig 2 years 171 days ago.)
Online Shipping and Reshipping Scams
Shipping and Reshipping scams are always intrinsically linked with other types of fraud. They are nearly always associated with identity theft and check cashing scams, and are often employed by scammers as a result of earlier scams, like scams that rip off customers on auction sites such as E-Bay. There are different versions of this scam, and we'll detail the most common variants here, and steps on how to avoid... (posted by Craig 2 years 174 days ago.)
Shipping and Reshipping scams are always intrinsically linked with other types of fraud. They are nearly always associated with identity theft and check cashing scams, and are often employed by scammers as a result of earlier scams, like scams that rip off customers on auction sites such as E-Bay. There are different versions of this scam, and we'll detail the most common variants here, and steps on how to avoid... (posted by Craig 2 years 174 days ago.)
Online Wholesale and Retail Scams
Creating a fake company or service before the Internet became popular wasn't an easy task. To make it believable, a scammer would have to make their counterfeit company appear official. To do this a scammer would have to possibly create a fake office, and contacting potential victims would mean phoning them up, or even risk face to face meetings. This can be very perilous, and even though some professional con artists... (posted by Craig 2 years 175 days ago.)
Creating a fake company or service before the Internet became popular wasn't an easy task. To make it believable, a scammer would have to make their counterfeit company appear official. To do this a scammer would have to possibly create a fake office, and contacting potential victims would mean phoning them up, or even risk face to face meetings. This can be very perilous, and even though some professional con artists... (posted by Craig 2 years 175 days ago.)
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