Frugal Café Blog Zone

Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on February 23, 2009

We’ve all gotten them: offers to get rich quick, buy prescription medications (especially Viagra) for dirt-cheap prices, invitations to work from home to earn high wages, sultry offers to meet other singles, queries from obscure banks, announcements that you’ve won foreign lotteries, any number of courier parcel or income tax refund scams… the list of spam topics goes on and on.

There are so many junk e-mails that land in our electronic inboxes (or spam boxes) weekly, promising the moon in obscene profits or killer deals, but are actually delivering good old-fashioned rip-off or destruction to your computer. With the rise in economic instability and unemployment numbers growing, more cyber-crime is coming our way. And, just one attack on you or your computer can wipe out much of your precious frugal savings.

One of the most notorious attacks, masquerading as a CNN News item about the fighting in Gaza, was launched via e-mail in January 2009. The fake news report’s link was to a phishing site and its pop-up video featured a malicious trojan downloader. Breeches in security at Facebook.com and other online social networks have scammed untold amounts of money from friends of account holders.

It’s a growing crime-ridden industry, believed to be 85 percent of all e-mails sent worldwide.

And the likelihood that you’ll be a victim of cyber-crime is undeniably high.

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