Category Archive for 'Scams & Hacks'


Firewalls and Internet Security

Firewalls-and-Internet-SecurityThe first thing that comes to our mind when we talk about internet security is regarding the use of firewalls and internet security. Well, in lay man’s terms it is needed to stop people (your kids, your employees and even hackers) from accessing some websites that you do not want them to access. You can [...]

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Pharming is much the same as phishing in that you end up on a page that looks like the page you are supposed to be on. The difference is that with pharming, hackers hijack links on other sites or the actual page you are supposed to have landed on. This can happen even if you [...]

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Phishing as mentioned before, is one of the most common online scams. Here’s to resume yesterday’s post on What Is Phishing? And How Phishing Works 1. Never click on a link in your email that takes you to a log in page. Type the home site address into your browser if the site is one [...]

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“Phishing” is one of the most common online scams. A phishing site is a site that is set up to look like any legitimate site. Phishing sites get you by sending you an email that looks legitimate. They are pervasive and responsible for defrauding people of hundreds of thousands of dollars every year. Ebay has [...]

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People hoping to attend the Beijing Olympic Games have become victims of an international Internet ticket scam in which thousands of fake tickets were offered the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said today. The IOC and the United States Olympic Committee filed a lawsuit last week accusing at least half a dozen Web sites of selling [...]

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