The Complete Guide To Avoiding Online Scams | Lifehacker Australia

Lifehacker Australia has provided an excellent guide to help you avoid being scammed on the Internet.

I urge everyone to read this informative article.

The Complete Guide To Avoiding Online Scams | Lifehacker Australia

Don't fall for email scams

Welcome to the 419 Eater:


Welcome to the world of Scambaiting!


Does somebody want to transfer millions of dollars into your account?
Does someone want you pay you to cash cheques and send them the money?
Met a new friend/penpal on a friendship/dating site who's asking you for money?
Has a dying person contacted you wanting your help to give his money to charity?
Have you sold an item and are asked to accept a payment larger than the item amount?

IT'S A SCAM!

Don't fall for common scams like this - fight them!"

Google Search Features

Google Search Features: "Improve Your Search Experience

In addition to providing easy access to billions of web pages, Google has many special features to help you to find exactly what you're looking for."

Google Street View Gets Usable With Smart Navigation

Google Street View Gets Usable With Smart Navigation: "Google’s street-level mapping imagery – called Street View – can at times be useful if you want to see what a place you’re trying to find looks like. However, if you’ve ever wanted to explore beyond a snapshot of a location, you’ve likely found the user experience fairly cumbersome, if not downright unusable at times.

Today, the Google Maps (Google Maps reviews) team has unveiled a new feature that makes actually navigating through Street View significantly better. Now, Maps will show you, “an oval when your mouse is following a road and a rectangle when moving across the facades of buildings.” Google (Google reviews) refers to these shapes as “pancakes,” and once you figure out how exactly they work, they turn Street View into a fairly enjoyable – if not highly useful – experience."

Buying and Selling on eBay

Source: Howcast

Crabby's Email Etiquette

The Crabby Office Lady at Microsoft has some excellent advice for internet users.

Take a look at what she says about the 15 major mistakes that can send your email recipients into a rage.

Crab #1: Discretion is the greater part of replying

Crab #2: Stop yelling at me

Crab #3: Save the stationery for snail mail

Crab #4: This is not a chain letter

Crab #5: Too many forwards is one step backward

Crab #6: Don't be a cyber-coward

Crab #7: I love you but not your 500 KB image file

Crab #8: The subject "Re: [blank]" means nothing to me

Crab #9: Plain text and HTML are not buddies

Crab #10: Itchy trigger finger? Count to 10 before hitting the Send button

Crab #11: Utilize the spell checker

Crab #12: Consider face-to-face communication

Crab #13: Don't wish Mom "Happy Mother's Day" in an e-mail

Crab #14: Read everything before replying

Crab #15: Now, what were we talking about?