10/25/2005

WHAT IS PHISHING?

Like spam, phishing (fishing) is a form of unsolicited email. Although some spam may only be annoying advertising, phishing is an attempt to steal from you. Unfortunately people are falling for it.

Phishing is when email is used as a means to "fish" for information that is
necessary to access financial accounts. Usually, the e-mail will appear to be from a legitimate company. It will try to entice you give them your account number and the related password. Often the email uses an explanation that the company's records need updating, or a security procedure is being changed that require you to confirm your account in order to keep using it.

They may look like the real thing! In appearance it can be very difficult to tell that the e-mail is a fraud. Like spam, e-mail from phishers usually contains fake FROM or REPLY TO headers in the email addresses, to make the e-mail look as though it came from a legitimate company.

In addition to the spoofed FROM or REPLY TO addresses, the fake e-mail is usually HTML-based. At first glance it may appear genuine. The e-mail often contains the actual logos, and appears to have the web site addresses of the real company. I've even seen them include comments suggesting you "be careful" with your password. All of the looks and wording of the email is designed to make it appear authentic.

However, when you view the HTML (computer code inside the email), you can see that the web site addresses are disguised and clicking a link will really send you to some another location. Often, it will take you to a look-a-like site in a foreign country. These sites are opened temporarily and designed to look like the real thing, in order to entice you to enter your log-in information and secret password. Once they get the information, they will try to transfer money out of your accounts, or make charges to it.

A common practice of phishing is to include a form in the e-mail for
the recipient to fill in the fields with their name, account number, passwords or PIN number.
For example they might send you a phising e-gold nitification mail with the fake e-"q"old link .Sometimes people nay be cheated by this kine of link

How to avoid falling for a Phishing (fishing) Scam?

How to avoid falling for a Phishing (fishing) Scam?
Protecting yourself is not difficult. Here are some tips:
1. ) NEVER click on a link in an email in order to enter your log-in information or password. Instead, if you think the email may be legitimate, go directly to the company website using your Internet Explorer or Netscape browser.
(Do not copy and paste a url address out of a suspicious email.)
2.) Always use a company's official website to submit personal information. If information is submitted online, it should only be done from the company's official web site using a secure server.
3.) Call the company, if still in doubt about what the email says.

How to open an E-Gold Account ?

Having an E-gold account is another good way to start your investment in gold market and other internet investment program
Follow the Link below


Find out the "Creat the account " and follow the instruction ~

What is HYIP ?

HYIP stands for High Yield Investment Program.
It gained popularity when e-currency such as e-gold , StormPay and others were introduced.
HYIPs allow investors to invest even in a very small quantity, making the program very popular and easy to follow.
An example of HYIP is Autosurfing websites
As with other investments, high gain means high risk. Many HYIP programs were proven to be scams
But at this moment ,it is very hard to find a long term HYIP ,most of the HYIP in the internet are playing who is the last rat ?Even some of th HYIP is designed to cheat people in the bigining .This kind of HYIP often close the program within weeks and the owner will regist a new web site to do the same cheating action
But people who join this kind of HYIP have no way to track back their money since this is all performing via the internet ~

About E-Gold

Note:The introduction about E-gold is from their official web site
e-gold is an electronic currency, issued by e-gold Ltd., a Nevis corporation, 100% backed at all times by gold bullion in allocated storage.
Other e-metals are also issued: e-silver is 100% backed by silver, e-platinum is 100% backed by platinum, and e-palladium is 100% backed by palladium.

e-gold is integrated into an account based payment system that empowers people to use gold as money. Specifically, the e-gold payment system enables people to Spend specified weights of gold to other e-gold accounts. Only the ownership changes - the gold in the treasury grade vault stays put.

So in my POV e-gold is well back-up by the really gold .It is a good way to keep the value of your property
.However the question in my mind is how many people in the world accept e-gold as the way of payment in their life ?