Common Spam Emails
Spam email likes to disguise itself in many ways.
Spammers are quite clever and will try any trick to get you to click into their email and hopefully hook you for a purchase or worse. According to the FTC, some common spam emails are:
Business Opportunities - These emails claim you can make hundreds of thousands with little effort. Like anything else in life, if it sounds too good to be true it most likely is. Ironically, some of these emails also try to lure you into buying bulk email lists from which they claim you can make money sending ads to these lists – sounds like more spam to me!
Chain Letters - Those annoying letters that zip around the internet seem harmless but they aren’t. Propagating these waste time and resources and can potentially be a way for spammers to get more email addresses.
Magical Health Producst - Lose 20 pounds in 2 days! Miracle Baldness Cure! Magical Herbal Formulas! These are just hype and the products don’t usually match up to their claims.
Free Stuff - Nothing in life is free. Usually you will have to pay a membership fee and jump through hoops to get your “free” item if you get it at all. Free vacations work the same way – you have to make some payment up front, the find out the accommodations are substandard so you upgrade and in the end it ends up costing as much as a regular vacation!
Loans and Credit Repair - These places will charge a fee to give you a list of loan companies or “clean” your credit. This is all information you can get for free if you do a little digging.
Read More about spam at http://www.govspot.com/ask/spam.htm
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