Getting Back To Basics.

While we all agree that there`s way too much spamming/junk-mailing going on in our email boxes, there are a couple of things we can do to reduce the amount of mails we actually have to sift through, without having to resort to paying for expensive software that can be a real pain to set up properly.

Firstly, and this is a great, little known tip. You can get yourself a free email account, (the bigger the better) which is a great thing to have if you use a lot of FFA`s, Classified sites, Search Engine Submittable etc. When you create the junk mail account, be sure to save the information you`ve used to create it with into a Word pad/Notepad file.

When the account is full, flit through it quickly, just to make sure there`s nothing of real importance there. If there is, copy and paste it to your favorite text document. Then just go ahead and delete the whole junk mail account. You`ve saved the info you used to create it with in the first place, so it`ll only take a couple of minutes to re-create it.

The Great Spam Scam: Five Strategies To Stop Brand and Revenue Robbery

Marketers usually think of anti-spam tactics as 'how to prevent' readers from perceiving their e-communications as spam. There is another, more sinister, consequence that may affect you. Spam is not just an inconvenience. For legitimate businesses, it steals productivity, erode your brand, and rob you of revenue.

Many companies have no idea their products are being sold on the black market or their customers are tangled in credit card frauds thinking they ordered something from your organization and are about to receive zip. These shifty sales schemes cost companies billions of dollars each year in lost customers and sales of products and services.

While Aunt Margaret may have served Hormel canned pork (SPiced hAM referred to as Spam), like it or not, you knew what was in it. With Internet spam (unsolicited bulk email or unsolicited multiple postings to one or more Usenet newsgroups), you don't always know what you're getting. Some spam messages are convincing. Some are plain annoying. Whether spicy or not, many of them result in criminal offenses on a worldwide level.

Phishing for an Identity

Phishing is rapidly becoming on the largest threats to your personal, financial, and emotional well being. No I am not talking about Saturday afternoons out on the boat with your grandfather, listening to stories that being with "When I was your age?"-now while these probably conjure up horrific childhood memories of such stores, they in no way come close to the horror felt by victims of Phishing.

Phishing (fish'ing ? to trick people into providing their personal and financial information by pretending to be from a legitimate company, agency or organization) is a fairly new scam propagating itself on the internet in many different forms. Each has the same sole purpose of convincing you to volunteer your personal and financial information and hand if over to these crooks.

One such attack was targeting PayPal (www.PayPal.com) customers, by sending out mass email (spam) stating that there had been a security breach and the account has been suspended until you verify some information. Well this may sound reasonable, but the truth behind this was it was not from PayPal; rather a carefully orchestrated scam to capture your PayPal username and password, credit card information, debt card pin number, mailing address, and social security number among others. What made these even scarier was the fact that the message was designed so well-using PayPal's logo and website layout perfectly-that even I had to take a second look. This convinced people of the legitimacy of the message and prompted individuals-estimated in the thousands-to happily provide their information over to the scammer.

Email Scam

Just be careful, recently a lot of email in our inbox is a scam, here is some example :


We are happy to inform you that you have won a prize money of Three
Million United States Dollars (US$3,000,000) for the WINNING LOTTERY PROMOTIONS.


WINNING LOTTERY PROMOTIONS, collects all the mail identity of the people online and
among the millions that log on to the internet we only select five people
every Month as our winners through electronic balloting System without the
winner applying, we are congratulating you for having been one of the
people selected.


PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND CLAIM


You are to contact your Claims Agent on or before your date of Claim,
Winners Shall be paid in accordance with his/her Settlement Center. WINNING LOTTERY PROMOTIONS
Prize must be claimed immediately.




These are your identification
Numbers.......................
Batch number.....................

CWG/10/10/BB
Lotto number.......................52X52GD
Winning number...................IND/LO73HH
These numbers are your winning identification numbers, that you will send
it to
your claims agent,


MR. RALPH TODD email address -
ralphtt.commonwealth@gmail.com
ralpht.commonwealth@gmail.com
for identification and further instructions.


You are therefore advise to send the following information to the Claims
Agent to facilitate them and process the transfer of your fund.


1.Full name


2.Contact Address


3.Telephone Number


4.Occupation


5.Nationality

Congratulations!! Once more.


Yours Faithfully,


WINNING LOTTERY PROMOTIONS.,