Byproduct of Success

I was just reading a blog post by Richard Smith on a spam email he recently received. I know Richard has been working on developing his internet presence. Spam is an unfortunate byproduct of making your business accessible on the internet.

I have read that over 100 billion spam emails are sent daily. Remember if a spammer only gets a .000001 responce rate they are still getting 100,000 responses every day. Spam is one thing, but you also need to be aware of malicious emails that include malware or viruses. These types of attachments or bad website links are dangerous to your internet security.

Another type of phony email is phishing. Phishing is another type of spam that involves a dressed up email disguised as if it was from a financial institution. The email often directs you to go to a website to acknowledge a trade or transaction. These emails don’t originate from the companies they claim to be. The links contained within the email are pointing to cloaked pages that are fraudulent as well. This is a ploy to get your user name and password.

The bottom line is if you are going to be active on the internet you need to be aware of these types of scams. If you have children always make sure you monitor their online activities as well.

Here are a few great SPAM resources:

The original: spam.com

Federal Trade Commission (FTC): ftc.gov/spam

spamprimer.com

Best Wishes!

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