By: Vijay Kumar Verma, Editor-ICN Group
SHIMLA: Your mail box getting flooded with unsolicited emails is a common problem all of us encounter everyday. Our spam folder tends to get still more unsolicited emails. Unsubscribing such mails too is a cumbersome problem. So you end up just deleting them. But beware if you open some mails you may be in for hacking of your phone which unfortunately these days contain very very secret and sensitive information that can breach your bank accounts to using your email ids for wrongful deeds.
Friends, it is common to receive attractive emails from certain quarters mostly originating from other countries specially from African countries where the sender offers to share huge bounty running in several crore dollars with you. The gullible receivers are often trapped to lose their own hard earned money by these tricksters. The steps begin with sharing your basic information then step by step to phone and other details.
And now the new trend is receiving friendship requests on Facebook from the opposite sex. The pictures posted too are too alluring and one may fall for accepting such requests which may again turn out to be traps beginning with friendship followed by dating offers or requests for donations for social causes for the NGO they are running or helping the needy directly. The next step from some quarters may be for entering into matrimonial alliance assuring you of all possible financial support from job to settling abroad.
And still there may be more alluring offers of business partnership and partial or minimal investment from your side.
Beware, all such emails and friendship requests are to entrap you and squeeze whatever little money you have.
To entice you, your Facebook friend may too offer to share his or her bounty running in crores of dollars. Which is followed by sharing her all scintillating and gorgeous pics. Beware, there are no free lunches. Wake up before you fall into such traps and end up not being able to share your experiences even. The gadgets are good but one needs to be awakened of the worldly traps.
