Web safety - Stop forwarding useless mails - 10 condments of web safety

i am writing this thing because i am tierd of explaining it to people, again and again.
you may be doing a crime when you are forwarding mails around.

I am sure you all have encountered  with the rubbish mails that come with a message that say
"forward this to 100000 people or tomorrow an ant will bite you" or simply "bad luck will follow you to your grave" .
most of them come with relegious pictures , or other nonsense out of the world content.
below i am mentioning some of them.

1) A mail with a picture saying "gods eye" ( most of you must have seen it) -
    It is a nebula ( a celestial condition) AND NOT GODS EYE.
    if you want to see gods eye, look into your friend's or enemies eye.

2) Any mail claiming "I am suffering from heart from something that even doctors have not heard off
    and every time this mail is forwarded Some company with the worlds greatest idiot as the CEO
    (it hast to be if the mail is true) will pay me 500$ each"  is FAKE
    no one have any advantage by you forwarding it other than some hacker or criminal.

ok that is enough examples.
now most of them may be just prank emails that cause no trouble, but how can you be sure all of them are safe.
The images that are in the mail may have internal hidden scripts that send collect your contact information
(as today, emails can have embedded and HTML content,so it is 100% possible).

the moment you forward these mails ,the details about yourselves and of the people you send it to may be transferred to
a database from where the CRIMINAL may use it for his own purposes.

You may be a Victim ALREADY:
Shocked...don't be ,because you alone are responsible for it, just take a look how many
spam messages are there in your spam folder of your email account.
all those rubbish mails, advertisements and other stuff.
where do you think they got your email ID from?
i am sure that non of you have official contacted them and said " hey buddy can you do a help and fill my mail box with rubbish"
spamers get the email ID from websites were you may have posted it of simply when of forwarded all that rubbish to me.
you are harming me and yourself.

But what when it is not just about spams, what when it comes to passwords and stuff
yes..they too can be collected.
and did you know if you cause harm to someone by email it is a punishable offence
and the victim cab ask upto a sum of 6lackhs +  jail. (under Indian Law)

Tips to to stay safe ,reduce spam and not be a criminal
SO how can you stay safe: SImple.

1. Stop forwarding junk, that's why you have a delete button.
2. Never reply to mails asking for password, NO COMPANY OR EMAIL GROUP WILL ASK FOR PASSWORD BY THE MAIL.
3. Not forwarding may bring you bad luck, But wont put you in a criminal case.
4. If you get a mail saying Something has happened to someone close to you,first  call that person up, he will be alright.
5. Hacking is no easy job, unless the a hacker does not have to hack (what is the use of hacking when you are offering your password)
6. You will never have to update your email account , if you get such a mail its fake

So that is it..
The 10 Commandments of web safety:
1.Stop sending rubbish, and you may be preventing a terrorist attack on your country ,you never know.
2.Stop sending rubbish, you will have your privacy.
3.Stop replying to rubbish, your path will be clean.
4.Stop responding to offers that are amazing, because they are amazingly fake.
5.Don't send hate mail, even from another Id they can be traced to you, wherever in the world you are.
6.You never win a laptop, TV,Computer ..or whatever from the web for free
(no one intelligent enough to make a website with all that HTMl code is that foolish, to give it free)
7.Search the mail subject in Snopes.com to find if it is fake.
8.Never follow links to your bank's site from a email.
9.Never meet someone whom you met online alone. let others know and select a public place.
10.Use digital signatures on your mail,and insist your friends do so.


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http://blaisemcrowly.co.cc    (contact me page)