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It is easy to pay bills, make online reservations and shopping from internet services and websites. As, the old methods and human limitations are dropped and we can access any online information of anything, which makes our lives comfortable and easier.
But, on contrary, same is valid for CRIME. Nowadays, internet businesses and the common people are affected by the online crime. Our freedom to access a large number of online locations shows our main vulnerability.
Criminal minds can reach these days further before, into our work, offices and home. They introduced modern types of method to scam people by mailing, sending fake sms through internet, by making them greedy showing that you can make tons of dollars here, by tracing and scam credit cards or bank account, they have a huge number of ways which they are using in this modern era, some of the following methods which they are suing are as below:-
PHISHING:-
The most common way which they are using is Phishing scam, it takes place, when you Shop online, by checking e-mail and by accessing social networks.
For the above reason, we must have the knowledge to protect ourselves by cyber crimes, because criminals always want our money and there is nothing which they want from us.
In the phishing e-mails, the victim click the malicious link, this e-mail seems like it comes from official bank authorities, but it doesn't, if you click one of the link you will be sent to a fake login access page which seems like the real banking state website.
It is one of the main technique to spread financial and data stealing software, so for the protection if you use any antivirus software you will be protect from this type of malware.
MONEY LAUNDERING OR LOTTERY SCAM:-
This scam is also known as the Nigerian Scam, it's quite an old scheme which we have encountered already in a form of e-mail or in another form.
This scam starts when you received an e-mail message from the official government number, from a business man or from the wealthy person, in which they used to ask that we are providing you help in retrieving a large sum of money from bank, you have to pay initially small fees for the process and legal matters. We are promising you to give you a large sum of money, and don't tell it any one that I am e-mailing you or texting you, keep it as a secret and etc .
After some times, you also received papers that seems to be real, In the end, after payment of the legal processes, you trust broke and you don't get any money or lottery, because they all are scams.
HITMAN SCAM:-
It is one of the most popular scam which you can meet online is Hitman Scam. In this someone threatening you through sending e-mails in order to get obtain money from you.
To show that it's the real e-mail, the message is associated with some details from the victim's life or personal details, which are normally collected from the online accounts or social media networks.
FAKE ANTIVIRUS SOFTWARE:-
We all saw this type of message on any website like " Protect your computer right now by virus, your computer has been infected".
This message is a unwanted or annoying pop-up, if you click on it, malicious code such as a Trojan or a Keylogger can be downloaded on your system. These types of downloading are capable of blocking and encrypting your operating system, requesting a sum of money in order to send you a description key.
To get protected from this, I recommend that you should use a specialized security product to get rid of these notifications.
FACEBOOK HIJACKED PROFILE SCAM:-
Today, facebook is the most popular social media network, this is the only network which is using by people largely, people use it for their chatings with other people rather they may know or not, promotion for their products, websites and for making pages of their institutions or etc.
But, on contrary, you also have to hide your details from your profiles to protect yourself from IT criminology or from hackers.
So, it is important to protect your privacy and online security and set as double-authentication method as soon as possible.
These are some of the popular ways which you should know to defend yourself.


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