Scammers Don't Always Want Your Money - at First! - by Etienne A Gibbs

Scammers Don't Always Want Your Money - at First! - by Etienne A Gibbs: "Sometimes scammers, clever and scheming vultures they are, may not immediately prey on you for your financial contribution. They may have something more deadly in mind - deadly to you, your computer, and the computers of all your friends. Once the scammers establishes a relationship with you, he/she knows that your email address is a 'live' address (one that will give him and others he will sell your address to) so he can secretly then move on to phase two - flooding you and all the other 'live' addresses he obtained with hoaxes and chain letters.

And, sadly, these emails and chain letter emails carry hidden spyware (pieces of coding that will allow the originator to take control of all the computers it touches). The code is so written that even if the email is deleted, it will still work effectively from the Recycle Bin. That's the work of scammer who are also hackers.
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