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Phishing and other online frauds

Tuesday, October 31, 2006 5:51:36 PM

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You can always make sure that your passwords travels over the network encrypted, but if you give your password to somebody voluntarily, it doesn't really matter. Opera is developing a phishing filter, but that's not a perfect solution.

So what can you do even without any phising filters? Don't tell your password to anyone, not even to someone claiming to be doing maintenance. Real employees don't need your password, they already have the power to do anything to your account they need to. Other form of phising you can prevent by always typing the address of your banks site by yourself, not by following a link in some e-mail.

Another thing is those Nigerian letters. There's group fighting back them back and they have quite interesting stories. If you get e-mail that offers you large sum of money, it's quite likely your are about to lose some money if you fall for that trap.

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