Thursday, June 3, 2004

Internet Scams We all get lots of junk mail and also Internet scams, those letters and pictures that tell whopper lies but seem so convincing: Congress will soon tax e-mail. Congress will abolish PBS and NPR. Here's a picture of Kerry, Bush, Nader, Clinton doing something stupid. Almost all are fakes, and they ask you to generate more e-mail by passing it on to friends or writing a letter of outrage to Congress. Don't do it: the end result is jamming up the Internet and also exposing your e-mail address to spammers, who delight in jamming your Inbox with more junk. When you receive a suspicious e-mail, trash it. You may also check on its legitimacy by visiting the Urban Legends page, which runs down all the claims and exposes their fakery. I am putting a link on the left-hand menu here, marked Internet Scams. Please consult it in the future as needed; and also for laughs any time. No joke: spam and scams now take up over 60% of the USA bandwidth. Not even television dares to waste so much of our time. 1:42:57 PM    comment []

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