Educate readers about the risks that go hand-in-hand with having an email account. Tips on making up secure passwords, recognizing spam, and more abound. Learn what steps people can take to protect themselves from phishing, hackers, and other email threats. An indispensible resource for today’s world.

The Canadian edition of The Little Black Book of Scams is a compact and easy to use reference guide filled with information Canadians can use to protect themselves against a variety of common scams. It debunks common myths about scams, provides contact information for reporting a scam to the correct authority, and offers a step-by-step guide for scam victims to reduce their losses and avoid becoming repeat victims. Consumers and businesses can consult The Little Black Book of Scams to avoid falling victim to social media and mobile phone scams, fake charities and lotteries, dating and romance scams, and many other schemes used to defraud Canadians of their money and personal information.

Companies and their customers can save millions every year from fraud, malware and lost productivity if all their users are equipped with basic email safety training. This book addresses this knowledge gap and is written for the non-tech savvy user in mind. Internet security involves all users not just the IT administrator. Topics addressed in the book are: passwords, how to spot a scam, what to do if scammed. The author had been an email consultant for the last 20 years with customers of all sizes from five men teams to government agencies.

This is a book about SPAM, e-SCAMs and how to be safe from them. Here is a book written in a simple style and straight forward language to suit every reader irrespective of his/her background. Plenty of information is already available on 'what' ranging from advisories to blogs to actual, published works. There are commercial products offering varying degrees of security too. However, the efficacy of those solutions depends on the 'awareness' of the user concerned, because you have to take the call ultimately on what is a real deal and what is a potentially fraudulent product or service. This book also attempts to provide the 'why' and 'how'. With over 30 illustrated examples, this book prepares readers to recognise patterns of fraud and thereby helps them not to fall victim to such schemes. Readers will also find some simple yet practical suggestions on fortifying their information environment easily too.

Malicious email is, simply put, email with a malicious purpose. The malicious purpose could be fraud, theft, espionage, or malware injection. The processes by which email execute the malicious activity vary widely, from fully manual (e.g. human-directed) to fully automated. One example of a malicious email is one that contains an attachment which the recipient is directed to open. When the attachment is opened, malicious software is installed on the recipient's computer. Because malicious email can vary so broadly in form and function, automated detection is only marginally helpful. The education of all users to detect potential malicious email is important to containing the threat and limiting the damage. It is increasingly necessary for all email users to understand how to recognize and combat malicious email. Detecting and Combating Malicious Email describes the different types of malicious email, shows how to differentiate malicious email from benign email, and suggest protective strategies for both personal and enterprise email environments. - Discusses how and why malicious e-mail is used - Explains how to find hidden viruses in e-mails - Provides hands-on concrete steps to detect and stop malicious e-mail before it is too late - Covers what you need to do if a malicious e-mail slips through

Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: keine, LMU Munich (Department für Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: Internet Communication, language: English, abstract: The communication by email has become one of the most important means of communication in cooperate and private. An internet user is constantly confronted by mass emails containing undesired information. Spam, defined as bulk unsolicited emailing, generally commercial in nature, and predominately fraudulent. Spam causes high charges and damages. Nucleus Research announced that the spam epidemic is costing US businesses $712 per employee each year in lost worker productivity. As a result, users are spending 16 seconds identifying and deleting each spam e-mail, which translates into an annual cost of $70 bln to all US businesses. Looking at the total e-mail traffic, Nucleus estimates that at least 90% of e-mail reaching corporate servers is spam. The average user receives 21 spam messages to their inbox each day. (Moskalyuk 2007) Regardless of the inefficient time spent, there are further costs caused by spam, such as (cf Filterpoint 2008): · Deleted emails remain stored in the trash folder. · Higher storage costs through higher server expenses. · Higher bandwith essential to store the spam mails. · Time spent by IT staff for anti-spam measures. · Recovery costs after a virus attack. Various experts provide a spam calculator that enables to determine the approximate annual costs for an enterprise created by spam. (Gibbs 2003, Commtouch 2007) The calculator introduced by Gibbs differentiates productivity, connectivity, storage and support costs. This Spam Cost Analysis Model can be found in appendix 1 of this work. In this work different types of spam in general and in specific will be pointed out and characterized. Measures against unsolicited emails will be reviewed. First I start with the definition of spam and where it comes from, followed with the spam history. Then I briefly list the most common categories and variants of spam used. The next step will be the revision of a present situation captured by Commtouch and Symantec, as well as statistics on the information learned through spam monitoring during the last few months, with the examples of its usage. I conclude with an overview of spam solutions offered and point out further research topics in the area.

In this digital age, where connectivity and communication are at our fingertips, the threat of online scams and fraudulent activities has become increasingly prevalent. If you're tired of constantly worrying about falling victim to fake friend requests, phishing emails, and online scams, then "How to Protect Yourself from Pretend Friend Requests & Email Scams" is the ultimate guide you've been waiting for. Written by author Jo Anne Meekins, a former policies and procedures writer, this book equips you with the knowledge and tools necessary to navigate the online world with confidence. Through personal experiences and practical advice, you'll discover invaluable strategies to identify and defend yourself against the deceptive tactics employed by scammers. Inside this book, you'll learn: Recognizing Red Flags Smart Social Media Management Reporting Resources Real-life Examples Arm yourself with knowledge, develop critical thinking skills, and embark on a journey toward digital self-defense with this essential guide. Don't let scammers prey on your trust—take control of your online presence and protect yourself from the dangers lurking in the virtual world.