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- It’s in your own interest and is thoughtful of others to ensure that you have an up-to-date and effective anti-virus program installed which will check your outgoing and incoming emails.
- Phishing is a form of internet fraud and is illegal. Real websites are cloned so that the originators can obtain usernames and passwords from their victims. The originators of phishing emails rely on people following links within the emails. Such emails frequently purport to come from banks, and organisations such as eBay and PayPal. Phishing emails
can be sent to the genuine organisation or forwarded to the Anti-Phishing Working Group (reportphishing@antiphishing.org). Make sure you include all the headers.
- Spam is the internet equivalent of junk mail – cheap to send and reaches hundreds or thousands of recipients. Some anti-virus programs will automatically filter out spam messages. If a spam message does slip through it’s not advisable to respond to it, rather delete or reject it. If there is a hyperlink in the message inviting you to unsubscribe,
ignore it. Responding to it will indicate to the spammer that your address is ‘live’ and you’ll lay yourself open to further spam.
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