Sunday, January 21, 2007

Scams

In the war against internet scams there are many techniques and procedures to follow. Rule number one would be common sense of course. However, greed can quite often overall this when emails come in, offering millions of dollars for nothing. Whilst most of us realise that if something seems too good to be true then it probably is, there are some gullible people out there. To be fair, there are also some sophiticated scams too. If you get caught out then there may be a saviour - computer forensics - can be employed on a scammer's computer to pull data from hard drives and memories, even scan network packets too. Analysing deleted emails may yield answers too. Now, if only you could get your hands on that scammer's pc....

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