My Ramblings and experiments

Another how to keep yourself safe on the internet post :-P

With the latest phishing scam going around, in South Africa at least, I have written up this post to get my opinion on keeping yourself safe from the scammer. The title of the phishing mail that prompted this is “CNN.com Daily Top 10” from “Daily Top 10”. It caught me at first until I relised this was received on the wrong account as I have a sub to a similar service. All the links in the mail go to a fake CNN site that says you need to download their video player, this video player contains a key logger than will send all keystrokes you make to another party that will probably use it for their own gain. I must say that every time I have tried the site linked it appeared to have been taken down.

There are a few important rules to using the internet, and they apply to many other forms of communication: There are a few important rules to using the internet:

1. If it seems too good to be true, then it is most likely is!
2. If you receive email asking for personal or financial information, delete it! They already have your information, and if they really need your information they will probably do it through more personal contact.
3. Never give out your personal information to anyone, they can and possibly will use it to impersonate you. Read more of this post