Lethal Spam
As you are probably aware, a lot of what is happening on the Web these days is terrorism, and a lot of other stuff is just plain criminal activity (see What Is Phishing? below). You need to protect yourself, and this posting will help newbies learn how. Schedule some time to set this up, the first time you do it, and plan to visit the site regularly in future.
First disable pop-up ads! If your browser doesn't do this already, I suggest you download MyIE2 and use its pop-up blocker.
If you are on a dial-up conection, you will also need to request your telephone provider to put a block on all 900 numbers from your phone line. (This is a free service the phone companies do not tell you about until you've been burned. I only learned about it after a young visitor phoned a Carribbean sex line six times from another room while I was making his mum a coffee. That generated over $300, so you can see why the phone companies do nothing to help except offer the service to those who phone in their complaints!)
Regardless of having teens in your house, if you hit the wrong button trying to get rid of a 'click here' pop-up ad on your PC, your next phone bill may have a $350 U.S. phone charge for a call you never made, to a 900 number in Europe. Because Ma Bell honours her contracts with the phone companies of other countries, they kindly take your money to pay the overseas phone company, regardless of the fact some criminal activity has taken place - you will just have to take it up with Denmark's phone provider, while their client may not have broken any laws in Denmark...now you understand why international crime works!
Go to http://www.codephish.info to learn the latest in scams, and use the information there to update your settings in your:
1) email program's filters
2) browser's site restrictions
3) firewall's advanced rules.
How To Update Your Settings
Let's take the example of the job seekers scam, which I'll walk you through.
Go to your browser's Options/Internet Options/Security and click on Restricted Sites. Add:
http://globalcareerforyou.com
http://pro-screen.de
207.44.162.138.
Go to your email program and select the filter settings. Add a block to anything with the following in the message headers:
@globalcareerforyou.com
@pro-screen.de
Open your firewall and go to advanced rules (or similar settings) blocking all ISP numbers in the following range, and describe it as Job Seekers Scam:
207.44.162.45-207.44.163.2
***What is Phishing?
Phishing attacks use 'spoofed' e-mails and fraudulent websites designed to fool recipients into divulging personal financial data such as credit card numbers, account usernames and passwords, social security numbers, etc. By hijacking the trusted brands of well-known banks, online retailers and credit card companies, phishers are able to convince up to 5% of recipients to respond to them.
For more information, visit http://www.antiphishing.org/
First disable pop-up ads! If your browser doesn't do this already, I suggest you download MyIE2 and use its pop-up blocker.
If you are on a dial-up conection, you will also need to request your telephone provider to put a block on all 900 numbers from your phone line. (This is a free service the phone companies do not tell you about until you've been burned. I only learned about it after a young visitor phoned a Carribbean sex line six times from another room while I was making his mum a coffee. That generated over $300, so you can see why the phone companies do nothing to help except offer the service to those who phone in their complaints!)
Regardless of having teens in your house, if you hit the wrong button trying to get rid of a 'click here' pop-up ad on your PC, your next phone bill may have a $350 U.S. phone charge for a call you never made, to a 900 number in Europe. Because Ma Bell honours her contracts with the phone companies of other countries, they kindly take your money to pay the overseas phone company, regardless of the fact some criminal activity has taken place - you will just have to take it up with Denmark's phone provider, while their client may not have broken any laws in Denmark...now you understand why international crime works!
Go to http://www.codephish.info to learn the latest in scams, and use the information there to update your settings in your:
1) email program's filters
2) browser's site restrictions
3) firewall's advanced rules.
How To Update Your Settings
Let's take the example of the job seekers scam, which I'll walk you through.
Go to your browser's Options/Internet Options/Security and click on Restricted Sites. Add:
http://globalcareerforyou.com
http://pro-screen.de
207.44.162.138.
Go to your email program and select the filter settings. Add a block to anything with the following in the message headers:
@globalcareerforyou.com
@pro-screen.de
Open your firewall and go to advanced rules (or similar settings) blocking all ISP numbers in the following range, and describe it as Job Seekers Scam:
207.44.162.45-207.44.163.2
***What is Phishing?
Phishing attacks use 'spoofed' e-mails and fraudulent websites designed to fool recipients into divulging personal financial data such as credit card numbers, account usernames and passwords, social security numbers, etc. By hijacking the trusted brands of well-known banks, online retailers and credit card companies, phishers are able to convince up to 5% of recipients to respond to them.
For more information, visit http://www.antiphishing.org/
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