joebear29
join:2003-07-20
Alabaster, AL
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Re: Nice!
said by justin  :
Only 1% of users, those who continue to read about all of the tricks, are really up with this stuff. Average users are not. At this rate I'd honestly think of advising non-computer friends to not use email AT ALL, for ANYTHING, ever AGAIN. And I'd advise legit companies to not use email for anything except no-action-required notifications. Just don't get an email address unless you want to make spam tools and scam tricks and security updates a personal hobby. Honestly it is getting that bad.
I don't think you need to go that far. E-mail address's are useful for many things, from newsletters to a notice your credit card payment is due.
What I would recommend is never pay or give any information through a link you followed in an e-mail, no matter how legitimate. Until now, I've been getting an e-mail from Discover every month, and I'll click the link and pay my bill. Now, what I'll do is still get the e-mail, but open a new browser and go to www.discovercard.com myself before I enter confidential information and pay the bill.
But there is no need to delete all your e-mail addresses. |
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justin
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| yes for you and me and many others here (after all, if we can navigate to the new topic screen, we're pretty sophisticated users).
But as I read a NY times article the other day on "how spammers get hold of your email address" it occurs to me that millions of net users still happily use those sweepstakes type sites (good grief) not realizing they will end up getting diet pill offers for ever. These people are the majority of net users, and with so much identity now being online as well as off, and so much so loosely protected by both consumer and companies, the rewards for sophisticated con-men are insanely high. |
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trisomy
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' http ://211.47.191.125:199/%63%67%69/%69%6E%64%65%78%2E%68%74%6D '
Just received this. Thought it would be of interest given the discussion. For those of you who are causally surfing do not enter your information !
(purposely broke the link - what is the point? -- mod)
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