Hurricane Katrina Scam E-mails
Thursday 1 September 2005
Hurricane Katrina has become the latest disaster to inspire a new wave of scam e-mails.
Appearing as promises of breaking news reports or help to victims, these e-mails include web links that take you to bogus websites that try to infect your PC with a virus.
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Use BCC
To send an e-mail to several people at once without showing all their addresses at the top of the e-mail, use the BCC (Blind Carbon Copy) box in your e-mail client.
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