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If it seems like you're getting hit with more email scams than ever, you're right. Deb Shinder explains what you and your users should watch out for to avoid being duped. Spam is one thing. It's annoying to get email messages that are nothing but blatant attempts to sell you something. But other than using up your bandwidth, they don't really cause you any harm.

Email scams are quite another thing. They aren't trying to sell you something; they're trying to steal something from you, con you out of or into something, or just scare you.

Email scams have been with us since the Internet went commercial back in the early 1. I remember getting those Nigerian scam messages back then. Watch Everything, Everything Online Idigitaltimes here. And believe it or not, they're still around. But scammers have gotten more sophisticated, and some of the more recent email scams are harder to detect — unless you know what you're looking for.

The holiday season seems to bring even more scammers out of the woodwork, perhaps because the average computer user is more vulnerable this time of the year. We're busy and in a hurry and may be less likely to notice the signs that a message isn't legit, and/or we're in a generous and giving mood and may be more likely to fall prey to a well crafted story that plays on our sympathy.

Let's look at some of the email scams that are currently going around the Internet and how you (and your users) can recognize them and keep from being victimized by them. Note: This article is also available as a PDF download. Fake Facebook "friend" messages. The popularity of social networking has surged, and scammers have jumped on that bandwagon to take advantage of the way the social sites work. For example, depending on your account settings, you may get email messages whenever someone posts to your Facebook wall or sends you a private message. Recently, I received a message with the subject line "Caroline sent you a message on Facebook." As with real Facebook messages, there was a link to click on to reply.

But I get a lot of those messages, and this one didn't look quite right. Figure A shows the fake message. Figure AFake Facebook message is close, but not close enough. I clicked back to a Facebook notification that I knew was real to compare the two. Figure B shows real message (with the content blacked out to protect the privacy of the sender). Figure BThe real Facebook message has subtle differences. The first thing that caught my attention was the Reply To address.

I expected the URL domain to be www. If you know how domain naming works, you know that means "facebook" is just the name of a Web server in the montadalitihad domain.

As if that weren't enough, I also noticed that the To field in the message didn't show my name; instead it said "Undisclosed recipients," indicating this message was sent to multiple people. Watch Rocky V Online Forbes. All this was enough to cause me to check out the message headers (in Outlook 2. Options icon. Figure C shows the headers. Figure CThe Internet headers show that this message did not come from Facebook.

In a real Facebook message, the Received: field in the header would be from mx- out. In this one, it's mail. Now I knew for sure that it didn't come from Facebook. I had opened the message in a virtual machine, so if there was malicious code attached, it wouldn't affect my real OS.

Now I clicked the Reply To link and found that it opened a page that looks very much like the Facebook login page. The red flag here was that I was already logged into Facebook with that Web browser.

You should not get the login page if you're already logged into the service. I did not, of course, enter my credentials.

That's the scam. If you do, the scammer will now have your Facebook user account and password and can hijack your Facebook site. Of course, variations on this scam may use other popular social networks, such as My. Space or Linked. In. If you're in doubt about the legitimacy of any "friend" message, just log in to your social network account via your browser (not by clicking the link in the email) and check your Inbox. If the message is real, there will be a copy of it there.

Fake admin messages. You might just ignore a "friend" message (especially from a friend you've never heard of). But scammers know that a message from the site administrator is more likely to get your attention. This message pretends to be from "The Facebook Team" and purports to notify you of a policy change that requires you to submit a new account agreement. They try to scare you by warning that your account might be closed down or restricted if you don't do it. Figure D shows this message.

Figure DScammers up the ante by sending fake administrative messages. This time, the scammer did a better job with the From name, which shows to be from facebookmail. Facebook message. But the first clue that it's a scam is the To address. That's not my name, and that's not the name of anybody in my domain. I have our Exchange server set up to forward messages to me when they're sent to nonexistent addresses (assuming they don't meet other spam criteria, which would block them at the server's spam filters).

Spammers and scammers often get hold of an email domain name and send messages to random names at that domain in hopes they'll hit on a real one. The second warning signal is the attachment. Facebook agreements don't come as attachments; if this were real, it would direct me to a web page where I could read the new terms and click Agree. Attachments from strangers should always put you on alert. I copied the attachment into a virtual machine and ran a virus scan on it. Sure enough, it was infected with a virus called Vir.

Tool: Win. 32/VBInject. CN. Luckily, most antivirus programs that are up to date will be able to detect it. A check of the Internet headers on this message indicated that the Reply To address is somewhere in Germany. Fear- mongering messages. While we think of scam messages as those by which the scammer profits, some don't benefit the scammer at all — except for whatever gratification a person gets from causing others to be upset or afraid.

Unfortunately, this makes some individuals feel powerful. There are many examples of these types of messages, and they usually seem to play on the current headlines. A few years ago, there was a flood of such messages warning that if you saw another car on the road at night with headlights off and blinked yours to signal to the driver, you were in dire danger of being shot as part of a gang initiation. This article details the history of this email hoax.