Identify a scam using your common sense

10 06 2009

The world is full of strange people, but the Internet is even worse. It didn’t take much time for crooks to understand that the Internet has given them the ability to gain a worldwide accessibility to possible victims to their scams. Unfortunately, some people use such useful resources to their own advantage and to the detriment of others.

Who has never found a link on a website saying that you’re the 999,999,999th visitor and you’ve won a million dollars? Who never received an email saying that you’ve won a lottery asking you to contact them so that you retrieve your prize money? Every Internet user have come across these circumstances and unfortunately, many have fallen victims.
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