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...make $500 in two days that explains "the world have gone to the extend on make money with every means you can get you hand on" and then asks for "Status Of Job You Into." Less blatant red flags include e-mail addresses with domains like Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo! and Rediffmail (an Indian outfit) - most legitimate hirers have e-mail addresses from their companies. A company or recruiter that asks for your bank account or credit-card number is a huge warning sign. True, plenty of companies use bank information for direct-deposit paychecks - but that comes after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Job-Search Scams on the Rise in the Recession | 10/8/2009 | See Source »

...orders sometimes overrule that. In 2005, relatives of a Marine killed in Iraq requested access to his e‑mail account so they could make a scrapbook. When a judge sided with the family, Yahoo! copied the messages to a CD instead of turning over the account's password. Hotmail now allows family members to order a CD as long as they provide proof that they have power of attorney and a death certificate. Gmail requires the same paperwork, plus a copy of an e‑mail the deceased sent to the petitioner. (See the top iPhone applications...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Manage Your Online Life When You're Dead | 8/18/2009 | See Source »

...clicked on the link - a disastrous decision. I'm not going to retrace the exact steps, because to do that, I would have to click on that link again, and I'm deathly afraid of it. Basically, as I remember, I registered for the site through a Windows Live hotmail address, and very early on in the process it asked if I would like to send along a similar message to every contact in my account. Now, why would any sane person want to invite every person in their contact list to look at photos they hadn't even uploaded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tagged: The World's Most Annoying Website | 6/11/2009 | See Source »

...Labour veteran had lost something potentially far more inconvenient than a wallet: the password to his Hotmail account. He is the latest - and highest profile - victim of a widespread "phishing" scam, which starts when the target receives an e-mail warning that the account will be suspended unless he or she revalidates it by clicking a link. This leads to a phony website that demands the account password. The scammers immediately hijack the account and use the address book to send out phishing letters. Often the supposed sender explains that he or she is "really sorry I didn't inform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cabinet Minister Needs Cash: The Jack Straw Scam | 2/25/2009 | See Source »

...Gates built or bought all manner of things to conquer the Net, but few managed to be anything more than also-rans in the innovation game. In 1995, he launched a gated online service, MSN; a Web-based email client, Hotmail was purchased in 1997; a search engine, MSN Search, launched in 1998 using a third-party product as its core; a chat client, Messenger, was released in 1999; and last year it bought an online advertising platform, aQuantive and became a significant, though minority investor, in social network Facebook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bill Gates: PC Genius, Internet Fool | 6/29/2008 | See Source »

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