Danger Danger Danger

photo credit: Mr Moss

There is danger everywhere on the internet. We must be vigilant all the time. How do I know this???  Unfortunately through personal experience.

I was the victim of an email phishing scheme and I got caught…big time!

I got what I thought was a legitimate email from Hostgator which hosts all my blogs. It turned out to be a phishing email and I gave them my username and password. Within a few hours all my blogs were being re-directed to a Russian site that was either spreading a virus or some other trash. My virus program caught it before it harmed my computer.

Once I figured out what was going on I called Hostgator and they went through each of my blogs and removed all the malicious code. A great big thanks to Hostgator!!! They were all over it in a flash!!

So now all my blogs are safe and happy…and my blood pressure is once again normal.

The day after all this happened I got an email from my bank asking me to confirm my account information. Being paranoid I called my bank and discovered that the email was a phishing scheme! Imagine if I had answered that one…I’d be broke now!

So the moral of the story is to be very very careful when giving out personal information on the internet. If you have any question about an email you received contact whoever supposedly sent it and verify that it is from them. It may take some extra time but it will save you more time and perhaps money in the long run!

So go forth upon the internet and be careful…be very very careful!

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