The web is a very fast paced environment that changes on a daily basis. Many people are focused on building value here but some are trying to exploit surfers and mine away some value away from those who build it. There are so many type of spamming techniques and more and more spamming tools that everyone is becoming more vigilant especially Google in what they will accept, even our online auction site is a venue for spammers to promote their sites and services so we all need to be careful but at the same time we don't want to over burden the legitimate users with complex forms and capcha images. All of us as website owners need to be aware at the opportunities we are exposing to the spammers and opportunists out there. Spammers are only a nuicance but phishers are a real threat.

I get so many fake email from look-a-like sites that try to get me to login to some fake forms on the web (look at the urls for legitimacy, for example if it dosent begin with http://www.paypal.com IT'S NOT PAYPAL) that I no longer follow links from email anymore. We spend a lot of energy and money to build up our credibility and profitability so we need to all join in and educate our visitors of the threats we all face on the web and make really difficult for scammers and phishers to succeed off our backs.

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