Recognizing and Avoiding Email Scams

Email provides us a convenient and powerful communications tool. Unfortunately, it also provides scammers and other malicious individuals an easy means for luring potential victims. The scams they attempt run from old-fashioned bait-and-switch operations to phishing schemes using a combination of email and bogus web sites to trick victims into divulging sensitive information.

This detailed whitepaper provided by the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team advises how to protect yourself from these scams by understanding what they are, what they look like, how they work and what you can do to avoid them.