Don’t Get Lured Into This Phishing Scam

One good thing about writing articles for a living is that I get to learn about new things. Since I spend most of my time in front of a computer, it seems I don’t get out much and unless it’s on the nightly news, I don’t usually hear about computer scams. That’s how I found out about Phishing Scams. I had never heard of such a thing until I was asked to write an article about it, and I’m glad that I was asked. I now know what a Phishing scam is and I’m happy to share this information with you, in case your not very computer savvy either. Now most of us know enough not to openly give out personal information online to just anybody, and common sense tells us when something looks a little shaky when we see it. However, Phishing scams are hard to see because they are made to look like things we are used to. We do a lot of things online today, banking, paying bills, shopping, stock trading, etc. We usually don’t give it a second thought to give our information in doing any of these activities. That’s what these Phishing scams are hoping for, that you won’t give a second thought to giving them your personal...