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What do you mean by Email Bomb
Answer:This is when someone sends a large amount of email messages to a single email address. Therefore this can mean that the quota of email message allowed in the email address may be filled and therefore allowing no more emails to the address. The best way to deal with a mail bombing is to contact your email address administrator who may beable to track where the emails came from.
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What should I do if receieve one?
Answer:If you do receive a scam email, you should not click on any of the links it contains or believe anything it says. Ideally you should delete it straight away, but it would be useful if you submit it to us and to the bank or institution it is targeting
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I have fallen victim to a scam and sent out my details to the phishers, what should I do?
Answer:You should act immediately. Depending on how much information you revealed, you should log into your relevant accounts and change your usernames and passwords. This will stop the fraudsters accessing your accounts with the information you sent them. Contact your banks and financial institutions and make them aware of the situation in case of problems. They should also give you further help and advice.
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What do youy mean by Trojan?
Answer:A Trojan is a program that you are tricked into executing that has a devious purpose. You run a small game that (in reality) loads itself onto your computer to allow someone else to get into your computer. Most anti-virus programs *should* protect against this
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What do you meant by Spyware?
Answer:Spyware is software that tracks what you do at your computer and reports that information via the Internet back to the company that wrote the software. Depending on how paranoid you are and how much you want companies to know what you are doing, you might wish to remove this software from your computer.
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Fraud on the Internet and The MMF (Make Money Fast) Posts
Answer:There are many hoaxes and frauds on the Internet. No different than RL (Real Life). You must be very careful of any e-mail that you receive. If the e-mail is asking for any account and password there is a very good chance that this is a fraud. The current vernacular for this on the Internet is "Phishing". The fraud artist is trying to get you to divulge information to them that they should not know. Never click on a link that says anything about updating your account. There are ways that the links you click on "look" like they are pointing to a legitimate site but in reality are pointing to the fraud site that looks JUST LIKE the real site. If you are worried that your account may need updating, go to your browser and type in the site name by hand and then look at your account
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What do you meant by Hoaxes?
Answer:There are many hoaxes circulating around the internet. A hoax is the human version of a computer virus. Instead of convincing the computer to pass the message along to many other computers, the message is written to convince a human to send the message to many other humans. The cleverest hoax wins the prize. For example there is a letter circulating about "dying boy wants postcards" (Craig Shergold) which is no longer true. Same as with the Blue Star LSD addicting children hoax
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I am interested in eliminating spam from my emails, how do I do this?
Answer:First off NEVER reply to the "Remove Me" e-mail addresses or sites. This only confirms that you have a live e-mail address and makes *your* e-mail address more valuable to sell to other spammers. Start complaining to the ISP (Internet Service Provider) of where the spam came from. Understanding the "Received:" headers is key to this. Trace back in the Received: header to where it looks like the spam came from and complain to that provider about the spam. Look in the body of the e-mail. If someone tells you to reply to back to a e-mail address or if they point you to a web site then complain to the ISP owner of that web site or e-mail address (NEVER complain to the spammer, they already know it is wrong and will ignore you). These steps will help get the spammers accounts eliminated.
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Revenge - What to do
Answer:No matter how much we hate Spam and how much we dislike what the spammers to our quiet little corner of the Universe known as the Internet, Spam is not illegal worldwide (yet). If you try anything against the spammers, please * do not * put yourself in risk of breaking the law. It only makes them happy if you get in trouble because you were trying to get back at them. The reason why spammers use "throwaway" accounts is because they know the e-mail account will be deleted. They usually provide either another e-mail address or a name / phone number or postal address so that prospective "customers" can be contacted. Be sure to complain to the postmaster of all e-mail names provided to make sure that this route is inhibited. There are sites dedicated to revenge, just search in Google. The least we can do is introduce like-minded individuals to each other.
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