Internet Scams

What is an internet Hoax?

An Internet Hoax is a story or urban legend that flows through the Internet, normally by means of email. These stories make false claims or endeavor to get per users to accept that something is occurring when it is definitely not. Fabrications play on individuals' emotions or longings, case in point, circling emails that claim to show pictures of improbable occasions.

Scams might possibly contain pernicious programming that can hurt a machine if an email is opened or if records are downloaded. It is vague why individuals make deceptions and chain messages, aside from the motivation to mischief others.

"Scam" the word itself makes people scary. There are endless people who browse on the web. It is very helpful for the people as it helps them to be in touch with their relatives who reside at a distance place, to shop things that are distantly available, to get information on any particular thing like a place, city, hotel, recipes, country and so on. Hence, it has become the fastest, easiest and cheapest way to find information or to get details about things which are miles away from them.

Besides, there are many other people who uses internet to harm others. There are so many different types of scams and viruses which are used to attract you and an attempt is made to separate you from your hard earned money and use your private information.

To be away from all these types of scams, you must install high quality antivirus software in your computer. This will hopefully help you to be away from getting caught up in the scams.We have discussed the most common types of internet hoaxes in our website.

We are providing the Spam Checker Tool for your convenience. Here your can enter the email or the contact number that you suspect to be a scam.This tool checks it with our spam database list and ensure you whether the email or the phone number is a real or bogus one.

If you are a victim of Ghana fraud, submit scammer's details here.