Scams or Phishing email
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These can be the most dangerous of unwanted email since often times they are cleverly disguised as email from reputable companies asking for verification of your information (Phishing). If you are not careful, you can find out the hard way how identity theft happens!
The other type of scams are things like the national lottery winner notifications... eventually they'll ask you for money so that you can get more money... don't fall for it - it's an email scam!
Email Scams are in abundance appealing to those of us who are financially challenged as a way to get easy money - They come from those who want to get easy money and that's exactly what will happen if you fall for one of these scams!
Phishing is ever increasing, I get tons of them that are supposedly from paypal or ebay telling me my account will be suspended if I don't update my account information. They provide you with a handy link to fill in the information and if you click it, it will look just like the company you expect but is a cleverly disguised imitation that will indeed take your name, address, phone number and credit card information and put it right into a swindler's hands.
Check
out a few actual sample email scam letters If
you do respond to one of these out of
curiosity - never send the money they
will eventually ask for!
National Lottery Scam
Business Relationship Scam
Phishing Sample:
Paypal Scam
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