Saturday, April 10, 2010

Phishing For Trouble: 12 Tips To Avoid Beging A Victim Of the Internet's Cruelest Scam

Phishing For Trouble: 12 Tips To Avoid Beging A Victim Of the Internet's Cruelest Scam, by Gobala Krishnan, IAHBE Staff Writer—Online scams have been around ever since people started using the Internet. However, what used to be as "simple" as getting people to give you their confidential information via an e-mail by simply asking for it has, over the years, evolved to beat the technologies that were placed to prevent it, and taken the modern day form of "phishing." In my opinion phishing is perhaps the cruelest scam of all, since it not only deceives you, it does so by manipulating your trust and feeding on your fear. And more often than not, it's difficult to realize that you've been stabbed from behind by an enemy pretending to be your friend...


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