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The two most popular kind of scams are the e-mail scams (and hoax mails), and the adverts.

About the e-mails:

The biggest part of people has at least one e-mail address, maybe more to avoid spams and adverts. The optimal is owning two e-mail users. One to talk with your friends, relatives, business partners, etc.. and one other to register to various online services with.

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When somebody registers himself to an online service usually accepts the agreement. In this (ToS or Privacy Policy) there is rights written; those you accepted… After this moment you are going to receive adverts!

Adverts and maybe a lot of hoax mails, e.g. in my case a company sends me e-mails daily with so amazing titles like “Congratz! you WON $10,000,000 Claim it now!”

Writers of these mails really don’t know what want they write: Examples: In title there is written that I won ten million dollars, inside the mail there is $ 1 million written. You should delete all of these without reading them; you don’t have to waste time. Only keep e-mails sent by noreply@paypal.com if you want to get real money.

The digital advertisements

I met a lot of these and I know all of their secrets. What should you listen if you are interested: If it’s a banner and there is a little star or a small line somewhere, don’t click it. If it’s an animated object, GIF, Flash Obj., or something else first listen the mouseover event. This means if you move the mouse to the button the text may change from e.g. “Yes, I agree” to “No, I disagree”. Listen each slides of the animated GIF.

What will happen if you aren’t cautious?

Oh, there is a lot of things that could happen:) Don’t be scared, ads wont cause problems, only if you click them and fill some fields with personal data. With filling phone-numbers they can send you a lot of SMS messages linking to “you accepted the agreement below”. Always watch the bottom of page too:)

Is there no anti-virus system installed? You should fix it immediately; for example if you click an ad (and receive some tracking cookies), you could be transferred to various domains and I ever wonder where I arrive… if a button motives to click and download something you don’t want to own.. would you download?

The most of these downloadable things aren’t viruses. This makes substrate to receive viruses, trojans, e-mail spams and much more… owning a zombie computer huh? Who want this?

How to avoid these? | Blocking ads

Blocking ads is the best and the only way to stop incoming attacks of scammers. The most effective is using the hosts file of Windows. About its using you can find an article here: http://computersight.com/programming/what-is-hosts-file-and-how-to-use-it/

About TV advertisements

I didn’t wrote about these before, but now I’m ready… In my opinion TV takes control over your mind. The ad-texts are written easy to remember, filled with keywords. Oh! This is not SEO, sorry… Just a short note: Collect info before you buy anything saw on TV.

The tools are the small words: There are so little capitals… people could not read them neither by watching a room-sized monitor.

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Written by Dark Antirex, 2009. Comment and rate it!