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Beware of Internet frauds
Date : 15th February, 2012
Making money on the Internet is what everyone dreams. Billions of people log into websites each day in search of information. Their hunger for information feeds the website owners around the world. As a result, the Internet has grown from a small enterprise to a giant industry. Today, every business is looking forward to make an online presence. They want to ensure a good future for their company. However, the evil spares no one. In this world of evils, the Internet too seems affected with frauds. Here we shall discuss about few Internet frauds and swindles that are driving the people up the walls.
When starting up an online business or running it successfully, you might need some resources. These resources can be for design, development, content management, webmail, domain, hosting or any other thing related to Internet. When looking for such resources over search engines like Google and Yahoo, you might come across thousands of company that provide those services. You might find paid as well as free services from them. You have to be alert while joining hands with any online company or organization. You must understand the fact that online companies can make a fool out of you without anyone catching them. They might show false benefits and products and charge you for them. They will promote themselves as the best and the cheapest. Once you start conversation with them, they will take you in their trap. Finally, when you make the online payment hoping for the product or service, you will find no response from the other side. This incident happens with online people regularly.
Another way of fooling others is spams, phishing and pharming. They are the most hazardous evils present in the world of web. Phishing and pharming relate to fooling clients on the net. When logging in to your webmail client website where you store all your important mails and related data, you might get in the phishing trap. A hacker sends a webpage that looks same as your webmail client. You are not careful enough to notice the minute differences and enter your email id and password instantly. Later, you find that all your important mails are nowhere to find. Someone has stolen your data and done a big loss to you. Imagine if someone does this with your bank account. Thus, you must be alert of phishing and pharming attacks to protect you data and money.
One more fraud that is common is someone sending you a notice regarding your win in a lottery. You might get a mail saying you have won millions of dollars or pounds. They ask you your bank account number to transfer money into it. If you give them the account number, they steal your money leaving you nowhere. The world is full of frauds and swindles. Therefore, you should be alert on the Internet and use necessary protection tools and software. This way only, you can protect your precious data and hard earned money.
