What are some e-mail safety tips? Like many other aspects of the Internet, e-mail can pose some risks to children and teens. Keep these safety tips in mind and teach them to your children. - Help your children to create an e-mail address that does not contain any personal information, including their name, address, age, or location. Also, be sure the e-mail address does not contain any sexual connotations.
- Not responding to e-mails from anyone they don’t know
- Not opening files attached to e-mails that were sent from someone they don’t recognize
- Deleting all e-mails from unknown senders
- Being careful about what they write in e-mails – you can never take it back
- Only allow them to give out their e-mail address to close family and real-life friends that they trust. Teach them to never post their e-mail address anywhere online.
- Monitor who is communicating with them and talk to them about not e-mailing with people they first meet online.
- Research e-mail providers to find out if they have privacy settings and blocking mechanisms for spam and other unsolicited messages. Use the provider that you feel most comfortable with.
- Tell your children NOT to fill out the profiles that are available when you sign up with some e-mail providers.
- Have them create a strong password and only share it with you.
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- Use e-mail to communicate with your children; it may be an effective way to check in and keep the lines of communication open.
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How do spammers find my e-mail address? |
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A spammer is an individual who sends out spam e-mail. They send out unsolicited and unwanted junk e-mail. Spammers are not targeting you specifically. They are targeting anyone they can find online. They are using a variety of different ways to find you, including: - Chain letters
- Chatrooms
- Guestbook postings
- Mailing lists
- Member directories
- Member profiles
- Registration forms to some online communities
- Webpages
- White and yellow pages
It is important to keep your e-mail addresses confidential and to never verify your e-mail address by responding if you receive an unsolicited and unwanted spam e-mail message. |
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Email has replaced Faxing in most workplaces for day to day correspondence between people and though kids and teens are using Facebook and Myspace for most of their communication between friends they also have online email accounts like Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail, myway, and the list goes on and on. Most of these online email providers do not charge for their service nor do they monitor or check the age of users before they grant them an email account. There terms of service does specify a minimum age but all a kid has to do is lie when they are asked there age. These email addresses are then used to signup at Facebook, Myspace, Porn sites, etc... The only way for you to know whether they have one of these account is to monitor their online activity so if they visit an online mail account you can address it. Visit the Software Based Parental Controls part of this site to find those tools that will allow you to monitor or spy if you will on your child's activities. These mail accounts can be perfectly harmless but on the other hand very dangerous. Also check out the Email Scams article to learn about the 10 most common email scams: - The "Nigerian" Email Scam
- Phishing
- Work-at-Home Scams
- Weight Loss Claims
- Foreign Lotteries
- Cure-All Products
- Check Overpayment Scams
- Pay-in-Advance Credit Offers
- Debt Relief
- Investment Schemes
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