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What to do if you Receive a Suspected Phishing Scam

January 9th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Fraudulent methods are utilized in stealing your personal information, suchyou’re your credit card details, your bank routing and account numbers, your secret questions that you submit when you register with a financial website, etc. This act has been termed as “phishing”. You may get several email messages from these phishers, which appear to have come […]

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What to do if you have already been tricked into Submitted Information

January 9th, 2008 · No Comments

In case you have been duped to respond to your phishing email with your personal financial details, you got to take immediate action. You would immediately need to get in touch with the appropriate institution for advice, and there is no other way for you other than getting into action quickly for protecting your account […]

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What are Fake FBI emails, how to identify them

January 9th, 2008 · No Comments

There are warnings from FBI regarding malicious emails coming into your inbox, looking as if it has come from the office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The FBI circular says that such emails are received with an attachment, and the contents lure you to open the attachment, known to contain a computer virus. The […]

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How to Avoid Becoming a Victim of a Phishing Scam

January 9th, 2008 · No Comments

Phishing is rapidly on the rise and you got to know how to protect yourself from these scammers, who make constant effort in knowing your personal identification and financial details. The scam has reached such heights that the police, and even the FBI, are quite over-burdened with these mounting cases. Banks, credit card companies, and […]

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How to avoid and prevent Identity Theft

January 9th, 2008 · 1 Comment

There have been alerts sent out by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) cautioning against the phishing scam. This has been issued to alert consumers regarding the emails that they receive, in which you are made to believe the facts as related in the email, and you get convinced to give away your personal financial details. […]

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How Scammers use Information Harvested from Phishing Scams

January 9th, 2008 · 1 Comment

The usual target for the phishing scammers are the financial institutions, and banks, such as Lloyds TSB, HSBC, etc. Often you receive a mail from a bank, which asks you to click on a given link. On clicking this link you are taken to a website, which is a replica of the website of perhaps […]

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How Phishing Scams Work

January 9th, 2008 · 1 Comment

You would receive an email from what looks like a trusted site of a certain bank. You may be asked to visit a link that is provided to you in that email. The email might ask you to verify your account, as otherwise your bank account might expire. When you click on to the link […]

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Common Characteristics of Phishing Scam Emails

January 9th, 2008 · 1 Comment

 
You would receive an email from what looks like a trusted site of a certain bank. You may be asked to visit a link that is provided to you in that email. The email might ask you to verify your account, as otherwise your bank account might expire. When you click on to the link […]

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Mention few cool and useful free Adsense scripts and tools

January 9th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Much research has gone into development of Adsense scripts, with an intention to improve the click rate for Adsense advertising. At the same time, you are required to adhere to the agreement that you have with Google, and see the scripts that you use do not violate the their terms and conditions.

There is one very […]

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