Every year, millions of people fall victim to phishing scams and end up losing tens of millions of dollars a year to scammers. A phishing scam is a scam where scammers send fake emails or phone calls and try to trick the target into giving them their personal information. One of the biggest reasons why so many people are still falling for scams is how sophisticated phishing scammers [...]
Hackers have the tools and expertise to break into the highest-level security connections globally, so they already know how to gain access to the email of a regular person. More and more people experience identity fraud via their email every year. It is making consumers wary of Google's and Microsoft's claim that their email software is secured, and hacker protected. [...]
It used to be so easy to have a personal email account. Before scammers and hackers rule the internet, you could give your personal email address to pretty much anyone and any service, and you would have to worry about someone resetting your password in an attempt to lock you out of your own account. [...]
It used to be so easy to protect your personal email address. All you had to do was let the anti-spam and anti-malware software built into your email addresses platform do its job, and you wouldn't be flooded with dozens of spam emails every day. But it seems like the protective software built into every major email platform is not working anymore. The rate at which we receive spam [...]