Many scammers on the internet have gone to the length of creating spoofed web sites in order to get people to reveal their personal information. Web sites that have been spoofed in the past (and which continue to be the target of spoofs) include Ebay, Paypal and other popular online sites. Here are some tips on how to avoid being tricked by web site spoofs and keep your personal information safe from the wrong people.

Often a spoofed web site will be the target of a link in a spam email. The email will be designed to look like an email that comes from the web site in question, and often both the spoofed web site and the email will contain design elements from the site so that it looks just like something that the actual company would produce. The first way for you to prevent problems from occurring with spoofed web sites is to never click on links that you are sent in an email.

Whenever you have to visit a site where you will be entering personal information (or through which you have access to your billing information / bank account information, etc.), be sure to enter the address to the web site directly into the address bar of your web browser. This will make sure that the site that you visit is the real site and not a fake.

If you visit a site which is fake it may be very hard or impossible to tell the difference just from looking at it. Fortunately, web sites can have their identity confirmed with a special protocol for security certificates which is included in most all modern web browsers. Generally, when you access a secure part of a site which requires personal information or private account information there will be a lock icon somewhere on your web browser which indicates that a security certificate has been received.

If you believe that you may have visited a web site in error, double click on the lock icon or otherwise access the current security certificate through your web browser and make sure that the name on the certificate matches the company whose web site you think you are visiting. If there is any difference, or if you visit a web site without seeing the security certificate indicated, there is a good chance that the site you are looking at is actually a spoof created to trick people into giving out their account information.

Finally, you can use an online link checker such as LinkScanner. After going to the web site for LinkScanner Online and entering the address of a web site that you are visiting in the box, click on the “Scan” button and the site will help you check to see whether the site in question contains any kind of malware – i.e. software that will attempt to damage your computer or spy on your site.

Follow these tips and you can surf the World Wide Web more safely without falling prey to spoofed web sites!

There are lots of email fraudsters running scams to try and get your personal information over the Internet. However, as long as you use common sense and follow a couple of basic safety precautions you can make sure that you do not fall victim to emails that seek to infect your system, steal you or your friends’ identifying information, or get access to your accounts.

One of the most important things to remember is that a web site will not ask you for personal information over email. Ordinary email is an unencrypted, and thus unprotected, mode of communication. Sometimes people can encrypt email, but if you are not well versed in security issues and using a special program your email is not encrypted (basically, if your email is encrypted, you would know about it). Companies such as Paypal and Ebay will not send you requests for personal information.

A common tactic by fraudsters is to send messages which say that an account has been suspended and require you to log in through fields in the message to fix the account. Actual online companies will never employ this kind of message, and the only place that you will be required to use your log-in data is on the actual log-in page of the web site.

Another kind of similar fraud that is often seen are cases where an email will look like one coming from a familiar company, and contain a link which leads you to a similar looking web site. However, the address will be slightly different from the normal one and the site itself will be a fake. To avoid this kind of email scam, all you have to do is remember the actual address of the web site and type it manually into your web browser to check your account.

Usually by rolling over the link in an email with your mouse you can see what the address is that it leads to – if there is any difference between the site listed and the normal address of the site that you know then you can be sure that the email is a scam. Entering the addresses of web sites manually into your web browser (or searching for them using Google to get the right address) is something that you should always do in order to be safe.

Finally, many modern email programs will help you to identify spam scam emails which are not from the address that they claim to be from. Internet protocols have been developed which make it easier to tell where emails are actually from, and if an email that you receive appears in your email program with a bar across the top that says that the origin of the email is in doubt, you should absolutely never click on anything inside of the email. Use caution whenever there is a chance that an email you receive is not what it appears to be and you can protect your information and your money from Internet scammers!

Better to say why people are interested in fraud ?  i talked to some of those people who interested to do fraudulent jobs . i talked to us residents

Most of them said they missed their job, and they do fraud to get money from rich people and give it to poor people . and this is why i don’t feel guilty about doing fraud.

And i said that so you are robinhood ? he said yes something like that . i said don’t you think the money you steal from a stolen credit card or from an online store might be maiden so hard and the owner may need it ?

Even though, the money that Robinhood stole was the money of those poor people and actually robinhood was returning their monies?

He replied : tho people who don’t do fraud do not know how to do it , if they knew they would stole all our monies. and he left the conversation

Now ,what is the conclusion ?

do all criminals think like this ?  leave a comment !

Hello , My name is HamidReza Nasrolahi a damn fine person and an Iranian web designer & web developer.

in this blog i write  about Internet fraud , chargeback protection and prevention solutions and also i write reviews on different internet payment providers and online credit card processors .

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