Have you ever received emails but have no idea who sent them. A lot of people may not use their given names in email messages so sometimes we get mails that are interesting but are unsure of the sender. If this happens then you can now use a service that searches email address directories and databases to give a lot of information on the sender.

A lot more people now understand the benefits of email address look-up websites. If you are the type of net surfer that conducts your banking online then you will be use to receiving emails from your bank. There may be times when hackers or spammers send you a message claiming to be from your bank but in actuality it is a phishing scam.

To find out whether the mail is authentic you can look up the email address to find out whether if it is real or dangerous.

Now it only takes a small amount of time to find the information. If you were to reply to a phishing mail with your banking password then you may end up losing a lot of your savings. The few seconds it takes to perform an email address search will save you a lot of energy and worry in the long term.

When choosing which email address search provider to use you should realize that there are various packages on offer, not all of which will give you the same level of information. Obviously, as with any service, you get what you pay for. An advanced search can bring up details on other email addresses the sender uses as well as their location and phone numbers.

If you had been using a normal search engine to find info on email senders then you will be stunned at just how many more details can be had through trawling email address directories.

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If you’re following celebrities like Oprah, Michael Arrington, and Justin Timberlake you might find that folks are retweeting some odd stuff purportedly originally posted by the aforementioned celebrities.

For example, I was watching Greg Grunberg AKA Matt Parkman from Heroes (and the co-founder of Yowza) and noticed he was being re-tweeted with a vengeance. The tweet was simply ‘RT @greggrunberg guys watch”Transformers 2″ Movie Free online here [snip] Wal-Mart’ and it was sent out, in this case, by CarriCarrie012. A few clicks and we discover that young Carri is not “Goofy, intelligent, and determined!!!” as she claims in her bio but is actually a spambot.

The bot essentially takes a celebrity’s @ name and pretends to Tweet that they are supporting the viewing of pirated versions of major motion pictures for free, something someone like Grunberg would never condone (although I wouldn’t put it past Oprah).

When you visit the site you find it is essentially a phishing scam that eventually dumps out into an opt-in survey scam that keeps you going through ridiculous surveys until your “5 minutes” are up.

This brings up an interesting point about the implicit trust we put into Twitter and how it can easily be hijacked by those with nefarious intent. Also you really can’t watch any of those movies for free. I kept on filling out the survey until my clicking hand fell off and nothing happened. Don’t forget to Retweet this!

In what’s just the latest Facebook phishing scam, hackers on Thursday broke into accounts and sent e-mails to friends urging them to log on to fake Facebook sites, according to new reports and anecdotes from members.

The social-networking site is in the process of cleaning up from the hack …

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