6.01.2014

Scam Time

Don’t click on links inside of emails like this! 

You have a payment of $500 waiting in your PayPal account! All you have to do is click here!”
Dear, unpaid beneficiary ...
Sincerely you are lucky person
I have important cause that I'm “funding”, and need your support.
Sob story about being stranded somewhere, and needing money.
Your application has been approved” email
You are a winner” emails
I have good news about your FREE GIFT
Warning that local loan interest rates have hit rock bottom
Do you want to help an married women expose her cheating spouse
Make money sue someone.
An alert that a sex offender has moved into your neighborhood.

If you really are concerned there’s a warning, hover over the link and check the URL in the status bar on your browser. What you’ll discover is that it goes to some silly dot-com URL that you probably won’t recognize, not some .org or .gov URL like you’d expect if it came from a legitimate agency.

The reason these are still around are that they work, on charity, greed, forgetfulness, and fear.

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