Tuesday, November 24, 2009

E-mail safety tips

E-mail safety tips on: 
Chain letters - how to deal with them. 
Hoaxes, rumors and urban legends - how to tell the difference between a hoax and reality. 
Phishing - tips for protecting yourself from deceptive e-mails. 
Scams and fraud - how others will try to trick you. 
Spam - what you can do about junk e-mail. 
Spoofing - when your e-mail isn't your e-mail... 
Viruses - protecting yourself from e-mail viruses and how to spot a fake. 


Basic e-mail safety tips:
Change your password often and keep it in a safe place
Don’t share the password with anyone.
Don’t open any attachments from anyone unless they are run through an anti-virus program.
Log off when done.
Don’t reply to spam, harassing, or offensive e-mail or forward chain e-mail letters. 
Use common sense and keep personal information personal.
Delete all e-mails, unread, from people you don’t know
Don’t be caught by the spammers’ favorite trick, “Remember me?”

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