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Wednesday, December 16, 2020

SPAM AND HOAXES




What spam and hoaxes are?

Spam are unsolicited junk e-mail and hoaxes are blatanly false e-mail intended to alarm others, spread urban myths, or to just plain spread like wildfire no matter the content.

What is the target of the hoaxes?

The target of the hoaxes is to be redirected to thousand of persons in order to get the e-mail addresses for futures actions of spams or phising.

How can we fight against hoaxes?

Installing a security program, booting your system in safe mode or running the security program to eradicate the hoax from your computer.

I recommend this web page …

www.snopes.com

Here you have two examples of hoaxes: ......

Walt Disney is frozen. False

Bill Gates told George Magazine that an ‘Over-Populated Planet’ would fall to a ‘Lung-Attacking Virus’. False.


1 comment:

  1. To fight against hoaxes, there are web pages which have information about them. It is important to check these web pages, before sending these `solidarity ́ messages to all our contacts

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