Ok hello and Logic cannot bare reading yet another crime committed via receiving and email.

In the old days (telephone time not telegraph) the tele marketer would call, build a fast comfort level while you listened to them talk before, and hey the tele marketer might even call back to you in a day or so reassuring you that they are a friend of yours praying on this trust they then would begin to gather confidential information about you your house friends and family.

Then taking the information gathered and using it to become you or whatever reason to gain financially.

 

Ok welcome to today the Internet requires not better security, but rather it requires you to use what we all have in us common sense.

 

Here is how it works.

What you should be doing.

If you receive and email from anything like your bank or credit card company saying in the title that you need to update your information or your ebay account might be in violation of being removed from Ebay etc.

You might also receive and email from a long lost friend, classmate or a "You got to see this to believe it photo link", even opening an Ecard from a trusted friend puts you at a sever risk.

 

The game is easier today then ever for these cyber criminals.

If you click on the link in the email you just opened up a capture tool software.

This is how they get in, when you sign into your computer then say you check your bank account later, or log into your favorite sight that requires a user I.D. and Password this software the cyber criminal uploaded when you opened up their email and clicked on a link will now gather this information and return it t the criminal for their profitable gain. It is just this easy.

 

So here is what you should be doing, never open and email from an unknown source.

And if you think it is trusted never click on a link period.

If it say your bank then simply call them at this point.

Applying common sense is the only way to protect yourself.

Tell your friends and family that you are not opening that joke of the day even if it is from your friend or family member, just reply to the email saying sorry I am not opening this link.

Why because the person that sent it more then likely is not really who the email address says it is from. If they reply saying yes I sent this to you then you can probably go ahead at this point and open it.  

The bigger point here is the sender can camouflage the from address even the domain name so it look real to you.

Common sense banks and credit card companies do not loose and then have to email you to inform you that they need information from you NEVER.

P.S. Logic does not have an E-Bay account LOL. 

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