How to Avoid People to Scam Us

There are many ways to avoid other people to scam us especially to prevent our email addresses from becoming a target to spammers. One of the ways is by ensuring that we do not post our e-mail address in an un-obfuscated form on the Internet. If you need to include your e-mail address in your signature, include a small graphic image containing your e-mail address. Besides that, please do not open spam messages wherever possible. Frequently spam messages include web beacons that enabling the spammer to determine how many, or which e-mail addresses have received and opened the message. We also never buy any goods from spammers because they will rely on very small percentages of people responding to spam and buying goods. Don't take the risk by giving your credit card details to an unknown sources. Lastly, do not respond to e-mail requests to validate or confirm any of your account details. Your bank, credit card company, eBay, Paypal, etc., already have your account details, so would not need you to validate them. If you are unsure if a request for personal information from a company is legitimate, contact the company directly or type the Web site URL directly into your browser. Do not click on the links in the e-mail, as they may be fake links to phishing Web sites.