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Phishing

Phishing is the term given to popular internet and email scams which rely on a malevolent user (a “phisher”) tricking an unsuspecting person into revealing sensitive information (financial information, social security numbers, etc.). Questions about phishing techniques and how to avoid being taken advantage of belong here.

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What represent the bait part of a phishing scam?

A fake email represents the bait in a phishing scam. Potential victims are lured into the scam with an email that threatens a breach in security or some kind of reward for replying to the email and providing personal information.
A bait part would be what draws you in. Say if you have the usual email. "My relative died and I want to give you money for no reason", that is the bait

Alan receives numerous email that he thinks might be hoaxes?

If Alan is receiving emails, which he thinks are hoaxes, he should report them to his email provider. He should also report them to the company the spoof emails are referring to.

What is the meaning of scam?

Scamming is getting someone to pay a lot of money from a worthless item.

Securing Confidence by Arranged Manipulations

Securing Confidence with Attractive Misrepresentations

Is QuiBids a legitimate website?

Yes, QuiBids is legitimate. It is an auction site in which you buy bids and then you are able to bid on any of the items currently for auction. For each bid, the price goes up 1,2 or sometimes 5 cents. For each bid, time is added on the clock to give others chances to win. The website is basically a tricky and risky way to get things you want, and the low price you often see is because of the price payed per bid, etc. It is legitimate, but you must be careful or else you will end up spending much more than you want to!

How do I stop looking at someone's profile?

The best way to stop looking at someone's profile is to block it. This way you have to work very hard to view it again.

How do you get more money on gaiaonline?

PLay Games!!! Or you can RolePlay in the forums. You may also buy items in the market and wait for their average price to get up, then sell it, letting you gain a few thousand g. Or you can take care of fish in the new app. The Overseer will give you rewards depending on the condition of your aquarium.

How do you track down an email address from someone you don't know but they sent you something?

Get the original email and it will show you an IP address, if the person wasn't using a vpn with the email service then it will show you their IP which can then be tracked on services on the web or by local authority.

What is characteristic of a phishing attempt?

Among the many characteristics of 'phishing' is promising you a lot of money for some simple sounding task, purporting to come from a major bank (often in west Africa) , asking for your full name, address and cell number, and very often bad spelling or syntax.

Is instant money vault a scam?

I am not going to say it is a total scam, however, I am always Leary of sites that claim to make a person $100,000 a year by just buying a software instructional program. And I always ask myself this, "If this product is SO GOOD and delivers on its promises, why isn't everyone in the world using it?"

In my experience with making money on line and determining what is real and what isn't, I have found the bolder the claims, the bigger the rip off, the easier they say it is, the less likely it is true.

What is a spoof?

In entertainment, a spoof is a light parody of something, which is usually not meant to insult anyone or anything, nor their work. The Family Guy television show, for example, features many spoofs from many movies, books, and celebrities, to include the Brady Bunch, Britney Spears, Ashton Kutcher, and such.

Spoofing includes the following:

  • Parody - imitating something precisely while making it humorous (the Star Wars episode of Family Guy is a parody)
  • Satire - making fun of something (The Colbert Report on television satirizes other commentators on news shows).

In programming (and the internet in general), a spoof is a piece of software, a website, or an application meant to appear as another piece of software, website, or application. Generally, spoofs are created to fool a user into giving away their password, personally identifiable information, or other important knowledge.

Internet spoofs include the following:

  • Phishing or Webpage Spoofing: A website that looks like another one in order to obtain your user ID, password, and other information which is then used by the thieves to gain access to your account.
  • E-mail address spoofing: faking an email address in order to disguise the real one when you are sending spam (if you have ever gotten email from what looks like your own email address, that's what is happening)
  • IP Spoofing: Changing your Internet Protocol Address to get passed a block or ban on a website.

How does EV SSL protect against phishing?

Extended Validation SSL (EV-SSL) certification helps to protect against phishing attacks over the traditional SSL certifications by confirming that a business is actually an established business, the business maintains records, confirming a business owns the respective domain and rights, and confirms that the certification has been requested by the actual business.

What is phishing website?

a website that's trying to scam you into giving your credit card number, e-mail, etc.

What phish album contains punch you in the eye?

PYITE has never been released on a studio album, however there is an amazing version of it on the LivePhish release of the 12/31/95 Madison Square Garden show. The song is technically part of the Gamehenge saga, but was written after the band recorded The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday, so it is not on that recording either.

What happens after you hit Report Phishing Scam button on Hotmail?

When you mark an e-mail message as "Phishing scam," it helps hotmail better identify who and what our customers consider as junk or spam. By increasing the number of reports we received, we will be able to systematically identify who are sending this kind of messages to prevent your account from receiving such messages from these senders in the future.

This feature does not automatically blocks a sender from sending the messages to your account.

If You see a crime would you report it?

It depends on the type of crime and whether I feel that someone is endangered by the criminal. I report drunk drivers whenever possible, as well as reckless driving.