Does everyone know NOT to click on links in financial institution or many other emails, but to go directly to the site, and logon there? Or, to make SURE it goes to the site you think it will by checking the status bar at the bottom of the screen?
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BigDaddyBS
ANSWERS: 8
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The status bar won't necessarilly do it. I'm a Certified Fraud Examiner and licensed PI. One of the biggest tip offs is if they fail to address you by name.
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Not everybody knows this. That is why scams are successful. Some people who use the computer know even less than I do about it, and have no inhouse guru to protect them.
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I do. Not that I need it right now..
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I would think this is a big fat DUH!, but there are obviously people out there who don't understand or we wouldn't be swamped in all that phishing cr*p. I don't bother with anything but going to the official website for institutions I routinely bank with anyway, including responses to any email notifications they may send me. Anyone else is an automatic delete for me. And I don't trust the status bar, either. I've gotten hokey input from suspicious links with that.
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We are talking about a society that doesn't realize that coffee may be hot and that spilling it may cause injury. A populace that never got their VCR clocks to stop flashing 12:00. That thinks Paris Hilton is totally hot; you'd think that with all of that money, she'd be able to buy a decent nose. How many PC users (percentage-wise) can even install their own OS? Come to think of it, how many can even figure percentages? You are asking a lot from people. Don't expect them all to be smart. I expect it from less than half.
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yes, that's an excellent tip!
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I've always said - access to the internet should only be granted after proper training on computer / network security and identity theft. I know a lot of people have slammed me for that attitude, but Jerv is right, people just don't know (or care to know).
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