Steps to save your mail from Email fraud

1. Never provide personal information, passwords or bank details in response to an email. Whether taxes, your bank, commerce sites like eBay and services like Paypal, no company will ever ask you to provide your password or card number credit. If you receive an email asking you to “update” or “renew” your password, even if the message seems to come from a company you know, it is a wrong.

2. Do not respond to an email requesting a password, money or bank details. Whatever the request made to you, it is strongly advised not to respond. Any replies sent to authors confirms that your email address is valid and may trigger the transmission of many other fraudulent emails.

3. Before making a payment online, check the website address. A technique commonly used by scam artists is to buy a domain name like a legitimate address: “payqal.com” instead of “paypal.com”, for example. Check carefully that the site address where you are is good, and before you enter a credit card, make sure the page address starts well with “https” which indicates a secure page, and not just “http.”

4. Vary and strengthen passwords. Using a single password for all your online services presents a risk. If you use the same password for your mail, your Facebook account and that of a forum in which you participate, the risk of being hacked increase. If a hacker breaks into your forum and find your password, it can then enter your email. For similar reasons, it is strongly recommended to use a password ’strong’, impossible to guess. Choose a password generated randomly by a date of birth, for example. Many sites allow you to create random passwords effective.

5. Carefully read the message. Mail written in broken French, without accents or punctuation, using odd phrases or claiming a body unknown what may be signs that this is a false letter, written by a crook who has translated slapdash a message originally written in another language.

6. Use protection software updated. In addition to protecting your computer against viruses and spyware, some antivirus also offer a system for detecting fraudulent messages. Browsers like Internet Explorer or Firefox may also notify you if you are directed to a fraudulent site, and virtually all email systems (Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo!) Also have a filter that automatically deletes these messages. None of these tools is infallible, however, you can help them improve by reporting any fraudulent messages that you receive.