Spam emails are problem to all of us. It’s annoying and some spam emails even will send you malicious software. Another email threat is the hackers can hack into your email and they will demand you to pay some amount of money before they can release it to you. Maybe you’re wondering how the heck the hackers or the spammers can get your email address. Below are some of the reasons.

1. You’ve posted your email address somewhere on the Internet
2. The hackers installed keyloggers inside your system
3. You’ve used your email username and password in other website (even the non-commercial websites)
4. Your password is not strong enough.
5. You’ve subscribed to spam websites
6. The hackers sent you a phishing email and you log-in through the link provided.
7. You posted your email as myemail@mydomain.com format

What you should do to prevent this from happening?

1. Don’t post your email address in public forum or any websites
2. Scan your system using Ad-Aware 2007 and Spybot Search and Destroy
3. Don’t use your email username and password in other websites
4. Use a strong password
5. Install McAffe Site Advisor to know which websites are spam websites
6. Never log-in using any link from any email
7. Post your email in other format such as myemail[at]mydomain.com . Spambots will have a problem catching your email address this way.
8. Use KeyScrambler and RoboForm to prevent keyloggers stealing your information

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“What are you doing in this video? hxxp://www.youtube.com/?watch=xxxyyyxxxx”

I received this email today and it says something about me doing something in a video. I know it’s a spam but, I just want to tell you guys to be aware of this type of email.

As I mentioned before, you can know if the links in any emails are fake if the links look like an IP address. But in this case, the Youtube link is actually blue (just like a normal link) but if you look at the bottom left of the browser, you can actually see that the link pointed to an IP address.

You can always know if a link is fake by watching where does the link pointed to. Next time you received this type of email. DON’T CLICK THE LINK. This is just a friendly reminder to you.

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