You have probably come across a piece of spam on the web that sucks you in. However, the challenge would be to determine if it delivers and not a scam. The internet abounds with many scam activities these days that you should be very careful. Millions of people who have been victims of a scam post their experience online to help others not to fall victims to these activities.

Avoid online scam by checking references through searching the name of a company or individual that offer products or services. Always keep your virus and spyware protection updated. The point of a lot of spam emails and sites is not on making a sale, but they simply want to lure you to open the site or the email. Stealth programs will then create and enter back doors in your personal computer data and by the time you realize the email or site is fake, it would be too late and your date has been stolen.

Get official information by logging in to the OnGuardOnline, the Federal Trade Commission’s site. Educate yourself on internet fraud. Verify legitimacy of an address by looking at the actual location through satellite using Google’s map program. If the locations are clearly not legitimate or do not appear as described, then you know that it is a fraud.