Luca / 01 March 2016 / Categories: Argomenti, Digital PR & Digital Marketing, Latest news, Technology, Articoli Don’t get cheated… Despite the thousands of warnings in the social channels, installed antivirus, tv reports and communications by the police, there are still thousands people that get cheated by computer and internet frauds. How many friends and acquaintances report comments like, "I got a virus, if you see porn pictures in my dashboard it’s not me!", Or people that see their hard disk fully formatted and unusable for opening a fake and virulent email or that share news and movies of dubious authenticity. From all this, I realize that a large portion of Internet users is not yet able to understand whether an email is fake or not. Methods are hundreds, I list some effective ones. 1) You get an email from "Bank XXX" (one of the many names that are usually reported in these fake emails), alerting that your account or current account is terminated or suspended, and to open the attached file by completing the fields required to confirm your identity. Well, the attachment (usually "zipped") contains a worm that installs when you open the requested file, and erase much of your hard disk, infect it with a virus. The fact that you do not have an account opened in Bank XXX should nake you desist immediately from opening this email. Since generally emails that come from authorities or telephone providers are personalized (meaning that they write your name and surname to be recognized), in case of doubt just make a simple operation to see if the links that you asked to open to answer specific questions in hypertext are more or less safe. Click the right button of the mouse over the link (without activating it), copy the link, open a browser or a text file and paste the link. If you see that the Internet address shown is not linked to the sender it is very probable that that is a harmful link for your computer. Example: Bank XXX sends you an email asking you to click the link to reactivate the password of your bank account. Assuming that you really have a current account in Bank XXX, if copying the link comes out an address like: "http://www.pincopallo.com/password/..." it is quite clear that this is not an email of the Bank. I say the bank, but it could be Mail.com, or Facebook, or any other name. 2) Let's talk about Social Networks. Not all the news, moving trailers, denunciation messages, requests of help for people or animals to be saved, are true. Often they are all manipulated and recycled to create "like" and "shares", and give way to others to know that you are there and steal your information or interests. Always check the news, going in google and searching any feedback, rather than, like stupid, share false information just to create noise. In this case you will release only smelly flatulence. Example: GIOMALE.IT is not the GIORNALE.IT. The first tells you about lies, the second one also (☺), but at least it is a recognized newspaper by the Order of Journalists. Many films that come from the War are false and manipulated. It is said that they come from a Nation that is now in War (like Syria) but maybe those are archive pictures from Afghanistan or other conflicts. But to make a stir and create a common opinion, they were attributed, according to the author's purpose, to something else. Like, for example, the famous movie of the school teacher in an Arab country charged with being an ISIS pedophile while instaed he was in a bombed city bringing comfort to children with gifts and presents (and the little girl who was crying was just moved by the received gifts, as you can see from the original trailer without cuts). 3) The tests you carry out in facebook are used only to steal your name, your data and the data of your contacts. This for an ulterior motive. In this way, huge databases are created, that can be used for many purposes. Every time you make one, you can go into facebook Settings / Applications and remove the tests or the applications that have settled in your profile and continue spying what you do and what you share. I bet that now you will go into your facebook profile to clean up your account and you will find hundreds of them… 4) Wikipedia is not a Bible. It is useful, but since everyone can put his hand on the information provided, it is not 100% reliable. There are many cases in which a lot of information was not true. Open your eyes, think with your own head. Cross data making other researches, and read more sources, before sharing something. Do not get cheated. Print 4761 Rate this article: 5.0 Tags: Luca Monticelli BlogStar2ComemailSocial NetworksvirusmalwareWikipediatest facebookaccountfakelink Please login or register to post comments.