Serendipity

Unit 12, Activity 5

Index Activity 6

Reading: Spam and Scams

Click the icon to refer to the text. Answer the questions below.

1 Could you understand how the 419 and Phishing scams work? Have you ever received these types of emails?
2 What would you say about people who fall for these scams? Are they gullible? Naive?
3 If you lost money to one of these scams, do you think you could ever get it back? Why or why not?
4 Why should you never reply to spam?
5 Do people make big money from sending spam?

Extra: Examine the example of a spam email. Which scam is this an example of? If you received this, how would you know it was spam and not a valid email from PayPal?