{"id":4988,"date":"2012-04-24T05:00:33","date_gmt":"2012-04-24T09:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/?p=4988"},"modified":"2012-04-23T20:10:24","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T00:10:24","slug":"email-scams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/email-scams\/","title":{"rendered":"Email Scams."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"scam\"<\/a>I often write about how wonderfully secure Linux is. It’s immune to Windows viruses,\u00a0Trojans\u00a0and malware. \u00a0However, Linux is not immune to carelessness and user error.<\/p>\n

As an example, I recently received an email which looked like it may have come from Yahoo. \u00a0It explained that I had won an Apple iPad. \u00a0All I need do is click the link and I’d receive my free iPad.<\/p>\n

Well, I don’t click\u00a0on links like these and neither should you. \u00a0As the old saying goes, “If it’s too good to be true…”<\/p>\n

Instead, I did a quick Google search to gather some information for this blog post. \u00a0As I\u00a0surmised, it’s an email scam that attempts to grab your Facebook log-in so it can hack your account and who knows what\u00a0else.<\/p>\n

My point is, even the best anti-virus software or \u00a0impenetrable\u00a0operating system can’t prevent you <\/strong>from entering\u00a0personal\u00a0information (passwords, bank accounts, etc.) that can be used at a later time to steal your identity, credit card information, or savings.<\/p>\n

Make it a rule to never click these email links. Report the abuse, delete the email, and, if you’re curious, \u00a0investigate on your own. \u00a0You’ll find that these emails are always scams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I often write about how wonderfully secure Linux is. It’s immune to Windows viruses,\u00a0Trojans\u00a0and malware. \u00a0However, Linux is not immune to carelessness and user error. As an example, I recently received an email which looked like it may have come from Yahoo. \u00a0It explained that I had won an Apple iPad. \u00a0All I need do […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[361,41,9,485,229,641,146,640],"class_list":["post-4988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-anti-virus","tag-email","tag-linux","tag-malware","tag-scam","tag-trojan","tag-virus","tag-yahoo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4988"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4997,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4988\/revisions\/4997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}