posted by admin on Jun 6
The internet is an amazing resource. It allows you to quickly learn about almost anything, to find poetry and read stories both new and ancient, it even now brings both radio, television and films to you at the click of a left mouse button. However, it is important to remember that criminals use the internet too, and there are many people out there who are not genuine, and are trying to steal your identity, or even simpler, take your money from you. There are ways you can protect yourself, and ways that you can spot fraudulent websites. This article could end up being very long, so rather than cover everything, I am going to ignore email fraud, virus infection & identity theft. Using this website on roller banners as an example, I’m going to focus on ‘fake’ websites that are just trying to directly take your hard earned money away from you. Read the rest of this entry »
posted by admin on Apr 4
There are many forms of internet fraud out there. Essentially what everyone wants at the end of the day is your money straight and simple. They will use any technique they think will work, honour aside. Some of the worse ones were the ones sent to the older generation who had been through the war, walking about finds that have been held for soldiers and all they need to release it is some initial expense on admin. These ones were the ones that frustrated me the most because the people they targeted couldn’t afford to lose the money. They were old, retired men and women who had served their time for this country only to be then screwed over by someone they will never meet.
The frauds that make me smile are the really poor ones that either are really implausible, or are trying to drive traffic to a site in order to sell something. We’ve all I think by now received offers to buy cheap Viagra, or have been offered weight loss surgery loan at no interest. If you’re interested, I can recommend this site if you are looking for acne scars personally. Now, if you have just clicked on either of those two links, beware, for you are probably the type of person that these emails are targeting (don’t worry if you did, they point to a safe legitimate website).
This article is specifically about an email going around that appears to be from paypall. It’s show in your inbox as from “paypal admin” and it claims that unless you log on ‘click here’ and verify your account it will shut down ceasing all ebay trading within the next 3 days. This sounds and appears legitimate, and it even gives you motivation, if you are trading on ebay you wouldn’t want your account suspended. However, when you click on the link it takes you to a website called something similar to paypal, but is not paypal.
I do not know how many people fell for this, but it was a well thought out well written scam, that had me double taking to check it was legitimate or not. If anything like this comes to you, the one piece of advice I can give you is always call or contact the supplier directly so you know whom you are giving your information to. If your bank calls you for details, if you call them back on their general number you can be sure you are speaking to the bank. The same with the internet. If a site wants your details, go independently to the website, do not click on the link as that could take you anywhere.
