Perhaps you also received a hot email in your inbox as “Kate’s wedding dress details-leaked”. Or “Prince William’s bachelor party photos”. If you click on these emails, then you will probably be spammed. Royal wedding has created frenzy for Kate and wedding-related searches on Google and millions of people around the world expected to view the ceremony on their computers. But the problem or danger is here when there are lots of people around the world online. For instance, in such events the cyber criminals are looking to crash the wedding hype. Phishing scams and royal wedding related search engine poisoning.
As I pointed out in previous post, phishing scams spread malicious software by using email attachments and with search engine poisoning, criminals are tempting unsuspecting users to websites with malware. When the users click on these sites, the malware infest their computers, looking for sensitive personal information. For example, the experts found that around 22 of the first 100 searches on Google for royal wedding ceremony were poisoned links. This act is a sample of computer crime and based on act 1997, section 3, a person who is found guilty is liable to a maximum RM50'000 fine or to five years imprisonment or to both.
As a result, there are some simple ways to prevent the dangers of scammers. The first one would be not to click on emails that conclude “leaked” or any secret information. The second is when a website seems to be risky; you can use ones that are more familiar and reputable to you. The royal wedding was an e-royal wedding because of so many information about it is on sites and blogs and this provided plenty of ways for cyber criminals to do what they want to do.
Source: www.topics.cnn.com
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