JOIN USIf you are not computer savvy but have an email account, then you are sure to have encountered ‘email terror attack’ on your mail box. Wondering who these terrorists are and what are they up to?
You must have surely got mails at some point of time from your own near and dear ones or perfect strangers with a beautiful picture of some god or goddess and asking you to concentrate on its eyes to reap manifold benefits or witness some kind of miracle in your life to happen in the next seven days. Needless to say that normally such kind of unsolicited chain mails keep coming on your mail box.
These mails with spiritual or religious sentiments attached come with statutory warning that the chain should not be broken to avail the benefit and also must be forwarded to another 10 persons, failing which you shall encounter some mishap in your life! And lo! You are in soup as to what to do next, to forward the mail or not.
God only knows who the perpetrators of such mails are and what their agenda is but one thing is sure, the threat and the fear factor works. Invariably, the recipient of such mail is tempted to pass on the buck on to another 10 persons. This is what I term as e-terrorism.
In a similar manner, there is one more kind of e-terrorism not in the nature of chain mails which keep popping up on to your mail box. These are bound to rob you off if not acted wisely. Sample this: “Congratulations! your email Id has been selected by our electronic random selection system for a cash prize of $50,00,000” or “You have won a UK lottery of 1,65,50,000 pounds in our monthly draw, Congratulation!”
In such mails, you are asked to send them your bank details; password, email Id password, etc along with foreign remittance of a few thousand to cover the handling charges. What happens next should be well known to avid readers of any newspaper. The bank account is hacked and computer injected with virus through e-terrorism!