Helpful Hints to Protect Yourself on the Internet

From Ron Tallman, denversocial publisher.

     1) Beware of emails that appear to be from a legitimate company you may have an account with such as ebay, displaying the company logo and asking for information.  This may be an attempt by a criminal to gain your username and password and to order things in your name. Instead of replying to the link in the email, it is much wiser to go to the company website directly, access your account and see if there are any messages for you from the company there. 

    2) Just because an email appears to come from someone you know, it does not mean they sent it to you. Certain viruses can access a person's email address book and send emails to everyone in it appearing to come from the person who was hacked.

    3) Web lies. Wonder if an email you have received is giving accurate information? Check out http://urbanlegends.about.com/   or www.snopes.com

    4) Getting angry at all the spam-mail you have been getting?  DO NOT respond to the message at the bottom telling you to click here if you wish to be deleted from the spam mailing list.  If you respond to the wish to be deleted box, it confirms to them that they have the correct e-mail address for you and they will then sell your e-mail address to other spammers.  I (your web guardian, Ron Tallman) didn't believe this would happen. I was getting about 10 spam messages a day. I asked to be deleted from those 10.  Within a week I was getting 200 spam messages a day.   If you have any information on personal experience with anti-spam programs or services, please let me know at ron@denversocial.com.  Thanks. 

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Last modified: October 23, 2010