10 Prominent Online Scams And Ways To Abstain
Bangalore: With internet technology advancing at rocket pace making lives easier and simpler, it is also creating a fertile ground for fraudulent activities. The villains take any form, from malware, identity theft to phishing. E-mails, smartphones, websites, and chat rooms are being used as channels to accomplish the malicious mission. Listed below are 10 prominent online scam and ways to tackle them as compiled by ET.
#10 Infected Sites
Infected sites are those websites fed with malicious softwares that hack through your personal information and use them for fraudulent activities. There can be a whole lot of such sites springing up during the festive season when people purchase gifts online making hackers build upon the popular search tag. Another popular means is by adding advertisements and images with viruses to the sites that get heavy traffic.
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