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E-mail safety
Basic safety tips
There are many ways you can communicate with others online, like e-mail, chat rooms, bulletin boards and instant messaging. There are also mobile communications such as text messaging that can be conducted offline but with many cell phones now able to connect to the Internet, some problems can travel across to the online environment. In fact, many online safety practices can be applied to your cell phone, even if you do not use it to access the Internet.
Where can we take you?
E-mail safety tips on:
- Chain letters - how to deal with them.
- Hoaxes, rumors and urban legends - how to tell the difference between a hoax and reality.
- Phishing - tips for protecting yourself from deceptive e-mails.
- Scams and fraud - how others will try to trick you.
- Spam - what you can do about junk e-mail.
- Spoofing - when your e-mail isn't your e-mail...
- Viruses - protecting yourself from e-mail viruses and how to spot a fake.
Basic e-mail safety tips:
- Change your password often and keep it in a safe place
- Don’t share the password with anyone.
- Don’t open any attachments from anyone unless they are run through an anti-virus program.
- Log off when done.
- Don’t reply to spam, harassing, or offensive e-mail or forward chain e-mail letters.
- Use common sense and keep personal information personal.
- Delete all e-mails, unread, from people you don’t know
- Don’t be caught by the spammers’ favorite trick, “Remember me?”