The very first impression you will usually make with a prospective employer is email contact. It is extremely important to present your email just as you would a cover letter. Properly addressing the recipient with their name and address shows respect – starting a formal email with Hello does not. Make sure that you use …
Category Archive: Internet Safety
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5 Common Internet Scams
Business Opportunities Scams These offers make it sound like it is very easy to start a business that will earn piles of money without much work, selling or cash. Many of these “opportunities” are actually illegal pyramid schemes or frauds that are masquerading as legitimate opportunities to earn money. Work-At-Home-Schemes The most common work-at-home scam …
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The Nigerian Fee Scam
A new con game appearing in email inboxes circumvents the bulk mail blocks of most email programs by using a blind carbon copy (Bcc). The email is personalized and is usually from a political refugee in (or escaped from) various areas in Africa. You are asked to provide your bank account information in exchange for …
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Top 5 Signs That A Message Is A Hoax
URGENT The e-mail will have a great sense of urgency! You’ll usually see a lot of exclamation points and capitalization. TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS There will always be a request that you share this “important” warning by forwarding the message to everybody in your e-mail address book or to as many people as you possibly …
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Part 3 – How Can Your Computer Catch a Virus?
There are only two ways for your computer to get a virus: 1. You load the virus onto your computer through an infected floppy, CD-ROM, or other storage medium. 2. The virus arrives by a downloaded file, email attachment, or other method from the Internet or a network. At this point, an infected file is …
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RSS feeds
RSS is an acronym for Really Simple Syndication and Rich Site Summary. RSS is an XML-based format for content distribution. Webmasters create an RSS file containing headlines and descriptions of specific information. While the majority of RSS feeds currently contain news headlines or breaking information the long term uses of RSS are broad. RSS is …
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How To Recognize a Hoax Email
Probably the first thing you should notice about a warning is the request to “send this to everyone you know” or some variant of that statement. This should raise a red flag that the warning is probably a hoax. No real warning message from a credible source will tell you to send this to everyone …
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Living Online
One of the main reasons we have computers is to use the internet – that amazing source of information and knowledge. The scope and anonymity of cyberspace cause many people to have concerns about the safety of the internet. And we are right to be concerned. We hear everyday about identity theft from computerized information …
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The Difference Between “Web Mail” and Email Software
The best way to explain the difference betweeen web mail and email software is to use a post office analogy. Web mail is a mail box address located on a remote server – Hotmail or Yahoo Mail, for example. To read your mail and send messages you have to go to the web mail server …
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Hurricane Scams
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, we wanted to remind you that whenever there is a major natural or other disaster, scammers begin sending out charity relief scams within just a couple of hours! Online scammers continue to join the looters as more of the Hurricane Katrina scams we predicted are making their way around …
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