{"id":6963,"date":"2019-10-05T22:20:20","date_gmt":"2019-10-05T22:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/on-line-interactivity.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/05\/internet-scams-101-attacking-you-t\/"},"modified":"2019-10-05T22:20:20","modified_gmt":"2019-10-05T22:20:20","slug":"internet-scams-101-attacking-you-t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/on-line-interactivity.com\/blog\/internet-scams-101-attacking-you-t\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet Scams 101    Attacking You T"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><body>&#13;<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">&#13;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/on-line-interactivity.com\">&#13;<br \/>\n  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/on-line-interactivity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/abbtop.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"120\"\/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.website.ws\/kvmlm2\/my.dhtml?sponsor=geekzonehostingcom&amp;bannercode=gif002&amp;language=english\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.website.ws\/images\/english\/banners\/kvmlm2\/468x60_02.gif\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<table width=\"800\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"5\">\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t  &#13;<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t     <script type=\"text\/javascript\"><![CDATA[<!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-5712520513640847\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 728;\ngoogle_ad_height = 90;\ngoogle_ad_format = \"728x90_as\";\ngoogle_ad_type = \"text_image\";\ngoogle_ad_channel =\"\";\ngoogle_color_border = \"336699\";\ngoogle_color_bg = \"FFFFFF\";\ngoogle_color_link = \"0000FF\";\ngoogle_color_url = \"008000\";\ngoogle_color_text = \"000000\";\n\/\/-->]]><\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\"><![CDATA[\n         ]]><\/script>   &#13;<br \/>\n\t  \u00a0<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n    <\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"260\" valign=\"top\">\n<p>\u00a0&#13;<br \/>\n\t  &#13;<br \/>\n\t  &#13;\n\t  <\/p>\n<div align=\"left\"><span class=\"style23\">&#13;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\" class=\"style23\">Article Navigation <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n        <a href=\"index.html\"><font size=\"3\">Back To &#13;<br \/>\n          Main Page <\/font> <\/a> &#13;<\/p>\n<p\/><\/span><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"\/>\n<hr\/>\n<p align=\"left\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><![CDATA[<!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-5712520513640847\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 250;\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\ngoogle_ad_format = \"250x250_as\";\ngoogle_ad_type = \"text\";\ngoogle_ad_channel =\"\";\ngoogle_color_border = \"FFFFFF\";\ngoogle_color_bg = \"FFFFFF\";\ngoogle_color_link = \"0000FF\";\ngoogle_color_url = \"008000\";\ngoogle_color_text = \"000000\";\n\/\/-->]]><\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\"><![CDATA[\n            ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n            \u00a0<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><b><a href=\"index.html\"><font size=\"4\">&#13;<br \/>\n      <span style=\"background-color: #FF6600\">Click Here<\/span><\/font><\/a><\/b><font size=\"4\"><span style=\"background-color: #FF6600\"> &#13;<br \/>\n      for more articles<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<td width=\"514\" valign=\"top\">\n<div align=\"left\">&#13;<\/p>\n<table width=\"99%\" height=\"114\">\n<tr>\n<td height=\"45\"><span class=\"style7\"><!-- Search Google -->&#13;<br \/>\n<center>&#13;<\/p>\n<form method=\"get\" action=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/custom\" target=\"_top\">&#13;<\/p>\n<table bgcolor=\"#ffffff\">\n<tr>\n<td nowrap=\"nowrap\" valign=\"top\" align=\"left\" height=\"32\">&#13;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/\">&#13;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/logos\/Logo_25wht.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Google\" align=\"middle\" width=\"75\" height=\"32\"\/><\/a>&#13;<br \/>\n<input type=\"text\" name=\"q\" size=\"31\" maxlength=\"255\" value=\"\"\/><input type=\"submit\" name=\"sa\" value=\"Search\"\/><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"client\" value=\"pub-5712520513640847\"\/><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"forid\" value=\"1\"\/><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"ie\" value=\"ISO-8859-1\"\/><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"oe\" value=\"ISO-8859-1\"\/><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cof\" value=\"GALT:#008000;GL:1;DIV:#336699;VLC:663399;AH:center;BGC:FFFFFF;LBGC:336699;ALC:0000FF;LC:0000FF;T:000000;GFNT:0000FF;GIMP:0000FF;FORID:1;\"\/><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"hl\" value=\"en\"\/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/form>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<\/center>&#13;<br \/>\n<!-- Search Google -->&#13;<br \/>\n<\/span><\/td>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n            <\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" height=\"22\">\n<div align=\"justify\"><span class=\"style7\">&#13;<br \/>\n                <font color=\"#FB7014\" size=\"4\" face=\"Tahoma\">Internet Scams 101 &#8212; Attacking You Through Your E-mail<\/font><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n            <\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" height=\"19\">\n<div align=\"justify\"><span class=\"style2\">by: &#13;<br \/>\n                <font size=\"3\" face=\"Times New Roman\" color=\"#FB7014\">Janette Blackwell<\/font><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n            <\/tr>\n<tr>\n<div id=\"article\">\n<td align=\"left\" height=\"12\"><span class=\"style2\">\tThe Internet is filled with scams, and eventually they wind up in your e-mail box.  The ingenuity of these people is astonishing.  Their goal is usually to get you to click on an e-mail attachment, so they can infect your computer with a virus, a tracking cookie, and\/or a trojan horse.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\u0095\tCOMPUTER VIRUSES strike fear into all our hearts.  When a particularly vicious virus comes out, announcements are made on television and in newspapers.  For a good discussion of computer viruses, go to http:\/\/computer.howstuffworks.com\/virus.htm. &#13;<\/p>\n<p>\u0095\tA COOKIE can be perfectly aboveboard and even helpful.  For example, when you visit Amazon.com, you get a cookie which enables their computer to recognize you when you return and to remember the sort of thing you\u0092re interested in.  TRACKING COOKIES, on the other hand, record the places you go online and what links you click on, telling advertisers what type of ads should be aimed at you.  It\u0092s true, they won\u0092t transmit a virus, but who wants an Internet bloodhound baying on their trail?  Good anti-spyware will remove tracking cookies. &#13;<\/p>\n<p>\u0095\tA TROJAN HORSE pretends to be something it is not, such as an e-mail from a friend or something you\u0092ve ordered.  The text of the e-mail may say, \u0093Here is the information you wanted.\u0094  Or, \u0093Keep this as a secret between you and me.\u0094  Or, \u0093You\u0092ve just won our grand prize!\u0094  Anything to make you click on that attachment.  Once you do, the trojan horse takes over your computer.  It can do any malicious thing it wants, from erasing files to changing your desktop. It then propagates by sending itself to other people in your address book.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\tA good friend just had his Internet address list stolen, and I\u0092ve been getting messages supposedly from him ever since.  They all want me to click on an attachment to the e-mail. I e-mailed asking him if he\u0092d sent that message.  He had not.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\tEven if you\u0092re smart enough not to click on a trojan horse attachment yourself, one of the friends on your address list may do so, your address will then be stolen, and off you go into the underworld.  &#13;<\/p>\n<p> \tOnce scammers get your e-mail address, they may use it to send malicious e-mails to thousands of people in your name. I usually discover this when I get \u0093I\u0092m out of the office\u0094 automatic responder messages from people I never heard of.  It\u0092s frustrating, but I know it isn\u0092t my fault.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\u0095\tAnti-scam rule 1:  Never click on an attachment from a good friend unless you are positive the friend sent it.  It takes only a minute to click on \u0093Reply\u0094 and ask the friend, \u0093Did you really send this?\u0094&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\u0095\tAnti-scam rule 2: Never double-click on an e-mail attachment that contains an executable, such as an EXE, COM or VBS suffix.  Once you click on it, an executable can do any sort of damage it wants. (Enough people now know this to make the scammer say, \u0093This attachment is virus-free.\u0094 If you believe that, I\u0092ve got a nice bridge I\u0092d like to sell you.)&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\u0095\tAnti-scam rule 3:  Your computer CANNOT be infected by an e-mail attachment unless you click on the attachment.  If you simply delete the suspicious message without clicking on a link or the attachment, you\u0092re okay.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>REAL CHUTZPAH&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\tIt\u0092s so awful it\u0092s funny, but after the scammers have used your stolen address to scam thousands, they have one more scam up their sleeves.\tThis is the message they sent me:&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\u0093Your e-mail account was used to send a huge amount of spam during this week.  Obviously, your computer was compromised and now contains a trojan proxy server.  Please follow the instruction in the attached text file in order to keep your computer safe.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely yours,&#13;<br \/>The foodandfiction.com team.\u0094&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\tMy first thought was, \u0093How nice.  These people are sympathetic to my problem and want to help me.\u0094  And then I thought, \u0093Wait a minute!  This message is supposedly from the foodandfiction.com team.  Food and Fiction, http:\/\/foodandfiction.com, is me, myself, and I, and I never sent that message.\u0094  Of course, if my e-mail address had been, say, AOL, the message would have been signed, \u0093the AOL.com team.\u0094  I might have thought the dear folks at AOL were trying to help me, and I\u0092d have clicked on that attachment.  Which was of course from the scammer, not AOL, and would have infected me.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\u0095\tAnti-scam rule 4:  Having your address stolen does NOT infect you with a virus or trojan horse.  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