All
the sender of this email wants, he says, is to be allowed to use your bank
account to protect the money from these crooked government
officials...sometimes the money is meant for orphans or building a church or
some other noble cause. In return for you allowing him to use your bank
account, he will give you a substantial percentage of the funds just for your
‘inconvenience’. This substantial percentage is often times said to be in the
millions of dollars. You
may have heard of the Nigerian scam...that is hardly new news. But now there is
one going around with a slightly different twist. This sneaky snake wants to
give you back the money that his countrymen stole from you..... Comment:gooddaysir/ma, Gee, I don’t know....maybe if he could
spell? Please....do NOT send your information to the sneaky snake. You can bet
that the only thing you have to lose is some more money. Do you know what the terms ‘pharming and
phishing’ mean in Internet jargon? If you don’t you need to know. These
definitions are supplied by Search Security. “Phishing
is e-mail fraud where the perpetrator sends out legitimate-looking e-mails that
appear to come from well known and trustworthy Web sites in an attempt to
gather personal and financial information from the recipient. A phishing
expedition, like the fishing expedition it's named for, is a speculative
venture: the phisher puts the lure hoping to fool at least a few of the prey
that encounter the bait.” The
best prevention for a phishing scam is to never, EVER click on a link supplied
by the sender of an email. It is wiser to always go to the site using either a
bookmarked link of typing the address that you know to be legitimate into the
address bar on your browser. Many
very reliable sites have been fooled be these snakes...big ones like Yahoo and
Paypal. You can be fooled as well. This
definition was also supplied by Search Security. “Pharming
is a scamming practice in which malicious code is installed on a personal
computer or server, misdirecting users to fraudulent Web sites without their
knowledge or consent. Pharming has been called "phishing without a
lure." Both of these illegal practices are used by the Internet sneaky snakes. They are designed to rob you of your personal information or to hack into your website.
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