What is the different between Scam Email, Spam email and Phishing Email

Usually, all scam email and phishing email are spam emails. This is because most of them(scam email and phishing email) are just trying to "test their luck" in a mass of internet user. As a rule of thumb, normally 80% of your spam emails are scam emails or phishing emails. Next, all the phishing emails are scam emails because they are trying to cheat you in different method.

For a phishing email, it is usually targeting people who are panic and low awareness. A common example of Phishing Email is your bank account is going suspended now, please log on to verify it to avoid any lose. Therefore, please calm down and call your banker immediately instead of log in your account. Usually, phishing email will redirect user to a "duplicate fake official website". Once the user enter they password and username, the money in the account will gone in seconds.

For a scam email, it is usually targeting people who are low awareness and greed. A common example of Scam Email is telling you that you have won a big award or money. And then asking you to give them your personal details. After receiving your personal details, normally, you will be asked to bank-in a deposit for paying a transaction fee or tax. Once you done this, normally, your money and the company are gone.


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"In term of defination:

E-mail spam, also known as junk e-mail, is a subset of spam that involves nearly identical messages sent to numerous recipients by e-mail.


Scam email is an email which attempt to defraud a person or group by gaining their confidence. (reference to wiki)


Phishing email, which is one type of scam email, which is trying to steal your ID and password. According to WikiPedia, "In the field of computer security, phishing is the criminally fraudulent process of attempting to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords and credit card details by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication"."

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Protect Your Friends' Identities When Forward an Email (Email tips)

Sometimes, we are used to sharing our interesting email by pressing a forward button and then entering all our best friends' email address in our email account.

Be careful, this kind of behave will indirectly expose your friends' email address to strangers unconciously.

Therefore, the best to forward your interesting email to your friends is using BCC instead of CC and To. According to WikiPedia, "blind carbon copy (abbreviated Bcc:) refers to the practice of sending a message to multiple recipients in such a way that conceals individual email addresses (mentioned in "to" field of the mail) from the complete list of recipients." Therefore, this is the best way to protect your friends' email address while sharing interesting email.

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8 ways to identify spam email & avoid be cheated(Verify your Account To Avoid Suspension)

Today I have received an email from "Yahoo!" with title "Verify your Account To Avoid Suspension", which required some private information from me. Besides that, they said that if I didn't reply them within 24 hours, my favourite Yahoo! account will be suspended!!! However, after I oversee this email several times, I have successfully verify and justify this email is a spam email, again. Eight ways, which I have used to justify this spam email, are shown below:

1. Firstly, let' check the email box as shown above, the spam email did not have the Yahoo! official logo.

2. Next, according this spam email:
"Due to the congestion in all Yahoo users and removal of all unused Yahoo Accounts,Yahoo would be shutting down all unused accounts,You will have to confirm your E-mail by filling out your Login Info below after clicking the reply button, or your account will be suspended within 24 hours for security reasons."
Yahoo! will automatic disable inactive Yahoo! Accounts. Inactive Yahoo! account means you did not sign in your Yahoo! account more than 6 months. Note: Please to check for latest period to define inactive account.

3. As a rule of thumb, Yahoo! NEVER ask user's Password!!!


4. something@yahoo.com is opened to all people to register it. The source of this email is not convincing!!

5. The contact date: 2010-12-12. What is this mean??

6. The latest Yahoo! copyright is "Copyright © 2007".

7. Official email should states "All rights reserved." and "Terms of Service."

8. Last but not least, this email consists of other website link, that is, "http://survey.confirmit.com", which is a marketing survey provider. Obviously, someone is using this service to accumulate people email password for illegal purpose.

To conclude, this is very hard for hardworking and calm person to be cheated. Next time, when you have received some urgent email like this, please calm down, do your homework, and ask a favor.

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Email tips: Manage your multiple Windows Live email accounts

Do you have more than one Windows Live email accounts? If yes, this article can help you to save your valuable time by showing how to manage all your emails from those different accounts via only one account of them. In other words, you are only required to access one account to read all your emails from those email accounts. As your information, Windows Live email accounts are email with domain such as username@hotmail.com, username@msn.com and username@live.com.

There are five steps to make your life easy as stated below.

1. All you need to do is to sign-in your Windows Live email account, and then select "options". Click "More options" if any.

2. Next, select "mail" in order to manage your email account options.

3. In "Manage your account" section, click on "Forward mail to another e-mail account".

4. Select "Forward your email to another account" option, then enter the email address which you wish to be used to manage this account.

5. Save the setting and apply the same procedure to other email account as you like.

Last but not least, please sign in at least once every 270 days so that your account doesn't get deleted. I hope this email tips can help you to optimize your time daily.

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