Keep yourself safe just as you would offline. Don’t think it can’t happen to you because you are behind a computer. It can! And it has to others! Keep yourself safe! Information: Do NOT put your address, phone number, school, state, city, screen name, or any other way a person can find you. Photos: Don’t [...]

Some scams use the name of organizations we trust, and they are the most vicious. Awhile back scammers sent an e-mail supposedly from the FBI. The address seemed to be fbi.gov, and the message told you that you had accessed illegal websites and that your Internet use had been monitored by the FBI’s “Internet Fraud [...]

Not all e-mail scams are vicious. Some are kind of old-shoe, and a person would feel fond of them, except they are still cheating people out of their life savings. I recently got this classic: “I am George Mudashiru, a close friend and personal assistance to Abba Sani Abacha the son of the former Nigerian [...]

The Internet is filled with scams, and eventually they wind up in your e-mail box. The ingenuity of these people is astonishing. Their goal is usually to get you to click on an e-mail attachment, so they can infect your computer with a virus, a tracking cookie, and/or a trojan horse. • COMPUTER VIRUSES strike [...]

My friend Janice is afraid to go on the Internet because of the terrible things that might happen to her. She views a simple trip to get e-mail the way she views going alone, late at night, to a dangerous part of town. Please… it’s not that bad. Though, come to think of it, it’s [...]

Because my business takes me all over the Internet, I have the dubious honor of being on three e-mail sucker lists at one e-mail address and one more at another address. Which is good, because all three at the one address send me the same warnings: my eBay account has been frozen, ditto my PayPal, [...]