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The Best (or Worst) Email Scams
The lottery win! Consumers receive an official looking e-mail notifying them that they have already won a large cash prize, foreign lottery, government payout or other major award. Sometimes an order must be placed from a website in order to claim the prize. The fraudsters then trick people into revealing personal information. This in turn is followed by stealing their identity and then their money. The big company. In may appear that a big company, bank or organisation has send you an email. It may even look like it's come from them i.e. logos, web address etc .Rather than using your personal name, they may say 'Dear valued customer', but finding some variant of your name isn't difficult these days. They try to entice you to provide different types of personal and confidential information including your online ID's, passwords, Social Security number and bank account numbers. This is done by asking you to reply directly to the email, or by asking you to link to a phony web site that appears legitimate. Please remember that organisations these days will never ask for personal account information via email or web pages. The bank transfer. The scam starts when you receive an E-mail, supposedly from somebody in West Africa, who claims to have access to a large sum of money, and they are trying to get the money out of the country. They ask you to be part of a deal, where the money is transferred to your bank account and then split between the parties. Obviously once they have access to your accounts they help themselves. Even somebody who has a legitimate right to know this information should not use E-mail. Good email services now have built-in options to automatically put this type of messages in your spam box The friend in distress. A friend (or it appear to be a friend because it's actually from their email) may approach you and engage in e-mail exchanges with you, describing their own financial disaster in great detail and seeking your advice on what to do. While such a request for advice may be legitimate, it may also be a veiled attempt at feeling you out and figuring out if you're willing to fork over some cash. This scam will be received from someone who has your e-mail address in his/her contact list. I received one from a friend who said that he'd been robbed while abroad as was desperate for cash. He said I should Western Union some money immediately. I called him and found out that his email had been hacked. I recommend in these circumstances you should pick up the phone and call. After all if a friend really was in need wouldn't you want to talk to them? The best way to avoid being taken in by email message scams is to ignore the message. A cardinal rule is never rely solely on information you receive through an unsolicited source, be it a text message, email, fax, or phone call. Always verify that the message is coming from who it says it is. I hope that by sharing this information you can be made aware of some of the potential scams and together we can make the internet a safe place. Regards, Tladi Small Article Directory: http://www.articledashboard.com Tladi Small is the owner of www.GoodBusiness.biz and reviews popular home business ideas and opportunities. Tladi's most popular home business recommendation is the Plug-In Profit Site at: www.PlugInProfitSite.com/main-28739 where you can get your own money-making website setup in 24 hours! |
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