Email scams are a huge threat, and scammers continue to take advantage of online users. In 2011, roughly 82 percent of all email traffic was spam. It is estimated that scam and phishing messages make up 19 percent of spam, meaning it is essential to be able to spot and avoid email scams. Use this guide to help you dodge the bait.
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I am experiencing several of these phising scams which say they are from Natwest or Santander or Barclays etc. Added to this there are scam e-mails received from Fed Ex. These have been reported but it does not seem to lessen the overall numbers I have been subjected to.
Auriol is right – I can’t read this.
The information you have provided is great. Now if we could all just read it. Time to re-do the presentation to make it reader friendly. Valuable informaton that will be passed over as it take too much time to read the text. A good start, but readers deserve better.
The font definitely needs to be larger. I can barely read it.
Another important warning is that e-mail that seems to be from someone you know may actually be from a hacked system. My wife has gotten several of these from friends who had been hacked. An
e-mail that comes from someone you know, but has an advertisement or link to some kind of offer, may be this kind of spam.
Sure the font used is annoying, but is it too much for people to zoom with their browser? Ctrl and + will do that task.
Good points, especially about using common sense.
Ed—Did you try your solution out yourself? Using Ctrl and + doesn’t do the trick. It does not appreciably enlarge the ‘canned’ graphical page that has all of the important information we want to read!
open link in new window and you can zoom just fine!
Good basic info. Text is rediciously hard to read. You can do better. You want to reach everyone, including seniors & others who are not used to enlarging text… Unnecessary PITA better done at the origin.
I’ve been getting a steady stream of scams. The USPS scam had me looking until I realized that the same email had gone to numerous addresses with the same tracking number!!
I have suggested that email providers should provide a “SPOOF” reporting button (in addition to the usual “SPAM/JUNK”) and the senders of those emails should be investigated and reported for criminal prosecution. Sure, junk emails are annoying (and I would support a “do not email” list, similar to the “do not call” list), but SPOOF emails are a whole different matter and should be punished criminally. The reason that spoof emailers keep doing it is that they keep getting away with it.
that would be too good to be true!