CPalmer

Cole F. Palmer Vocabulary:


 * //__ Anonymous __- identities are unknown//**
 * //__ Cookies __- Small programs that collect information about sites you visit and about your computer//**
 * //__ Third Party __- someone other than you and the website owner who has access to your personal information//**
 * //__Privacy Options__- choices you make about how your information is used by a website//**

VOCABULARY

__ Cyberbulling: __ Online Bullying- saying mean things about others

__ Bystander: __ Watches bullying and does nothing

__ Upstander: __ Witness bullying and tries to help stop the bullying

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Online Scams

__//** Hacked Emails- **//__ if you are hacked you will know when

if you have been hacked you can

Your Sent messages folder has messages you didn't send, or it has been emptied
 * Make sure your security software is up-to-date

__//** Spam- **//__ Check your email account to see if it provides a tool to filter out potential spam or to channel spam into a bulk email folder.

 two email addresses — one for personal messages and one for shopping, newsletters, chat rooms, coupons and other services.

 __//**Common Online Scams-**//__

scam artists will trick you into paying them money with a credit card.

they get your credit card number and hack you

They do this with pop ups or adds.

//**__ Mystery Shopper __**//**__ Scams- __**

example is some one worked for their boss and their boss gave them a fake check then when he/she cashed the check at the bank they would not give her the money for it. A way to keep this from happening is from being careful for who you work for

__//**Money Transfer**// **Scams-**__ Money transfers can be useful if you want to send money to someone you know and trust

Don’t wire money to a stranger or someone you haven’t met in person.anyone who insists on wire transfers for payment

an online love interest who asks for money

 It will bounce, and you’ll owe your bank the money you withdrew. By law, banks must make the funds from deposited checks available within a few days, but it can take weeks to uncover a fake check. It may seem that the check has cleared and that the money is in your account.

//**<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #404040; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 200%;">__Spam-__ **// Don't believe what emails give you! You should get a email filter to protect you from any emails!

__//** Text Message Spam- **//__

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #404040; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Is when a person offers you a present and if you take it you have to give a lot of personal information. You can file a complaint to the FCC Department.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #404040; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Is when internet fraudsters impersonate a business to trick you into giving out personal information. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #404040; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> One way to deal with it is to delete emails and text messages that ask for your personal information
 * //__ Phishing- __//**

__//** Avoiding Online Scams- **//__

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #404040; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Spammers could use your account and info and commit crimes in your name. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #404040; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">You should always make sure you have your credit cards and social celerity cars any one can take it.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #404040; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">__//** Work @ Home Scams- **//__

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #404040; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> People can hack your account and lower or raise your payment.

__//** Common Online Scams- **//__

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #404040; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Some scampers will use email or other online sources, and trick you into paying money thinking you owe it. //__** Online Dating Scams- **__//

The online Dating scams is NOT good for you because he or she will make things up and say they claim to be from the U.S, but they are really not! __ //** Online Penny Auctions- **// __

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #404040; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">an online penny auction is technically a scam in which, say the bidder bids on an item 260 times he or she would have to pay $260. I also learned that that the creator or creators that make the bidding website use bots or human shrills so if the bidder is losing the bid the creator can use the bots and start a bidding war, and if the bidder loses they have to pay full retail for the item they wanted.