Globusz^® Publishing 

With every passing day, the problem of spam gets worse. Spam is the biggest nuisance today that is growing exponentially for email users worldwide. Over 70% of the email messages transmitted over the Internet are spam.

As spam proliferates, the threat of online scams increase. Online scams are clever ploys to defraud you out of your money.

Online Scams come under two broad categories.

1. Nigerian Scam
2. Online lottery/award notification

A typical Nigerian scam message would come unsolicited to an email user purportedly from a barrister, high-ranking official or kin of ex-rulers offering to transfer huge amounts of dollars lying unclaimed in bank accounts of deceased people to the recipient’s bank account provided he/she provides critical information like bank account number, social security number, contact details & a fee for transferring money.

In another variation of this scam, unsolicited messages would be received stating that the recipient has won an online lottery and to claim the prize money the recipient needs to provide critical financial or personal information along with a fee for the transfer.

These scams are very common in the Internet and have been in circulation for a long time. Yet people fall for them and get conned out of their money to these scamsters.

It is in this context that Globusz Publishing’s latest e-book Junk Mail couldn’t have come in a more appropriate time than now.

For sure, Junk Mail comes as a timely publication and contains a good collection of online scam messages. For the benefit of the readers and the general public at large, Globusz Publishing has reproduced the email messages in verbatim – word for word so that the readers get a first-hand look at what an online scam message looks like. I am sure that going through the book would enlighten readers to get the nuances of a scam message and be on their guard.

So next time when you receive such kind of email, you would know what to do. Enlightened netizens would make these con artists out of business and make Internet a safer place for our online activities.

3rd Oct 2005	G Ram Kumar, MCA, CCNA
Bangalore, India.	Author of Cyber Crimes