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Monitor your E-Mail 

E-mail is one of the main ways viruses are spread 

1.- Never send your passwords or codes by e-mail.
Never divulge passwords, personal details or credit card details by e-mail, or trust links you receive by e-mail. Always access webpages by typing the address directly into the browser.

"Phishing" is a scam that involves using e-mail messages claiming to be from a Bank in order to attempt to acquire confidential information fraudulently. You should not respond to e-mails allegedly sent by Banks when they ask for personal details, passwords, codes, account numbers, etc… or which affect your security. CAM-Miami Agency will never ask you to divulge your passwords by e-mail.

2.- Do not open junk mail or spam.
If you receive unsolicited e-mails or from an unknown sender, you should not open the message but rather delete it immediately. It is also unadvisable to forward on chain mails.

3.- Be careful about opening e-mails with attached files.
Especially if they are from an unknown sender. Some hackers steal the address books of other users so, in some cases, even though you might know the sender, the message is not necessarily safe. Make sure you are actually expecting to receive such a file from this sender.

Never run an attachment directly from an e-mail if you do not know its origin. It is safer to download them first to a directory on your computer.

4.- Never trust gifts, easy promotions or lottery prizes offered by e-mail.
If you receive  a good job offer to work from the comfort of your own home on your computer, be careful; you might be the victim of a scam.

The new job involves receiving amounts of money in your bank account, retaining a percentage as a handler’s fee and then sending the rest on to a different account. With this method, scammers launder money of dubious origin. This behavior is considered a criminal act, persecuted by the relevant authorities.

Definitions:
This method involves the scammers designing a fraudulent Website, made to look like the original Website, making the user believe they are connected to the Bank, and asking for confidential data that should never be given.

  • Junk mail / Spam.
    Spam or junk mail are unsolicited messages, sent out en masse, which may  be detrimental to the recipient.
  • Phising.
    This is a scam that uses deception to try and acquire confidential information fraudulently (such as a password or  credit card information).