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Title: Test Your Knowledge of Online Scams - ANICK JESDANUN, Associated Press
Post by: Stephen Taylor on July 31, 2007, 04:11:46 AM
 Test Your Knowledge of Online Scams - ANICK JESDANUN, Associated Press

Think you're smart at recognizing online scams? Take a quiz to find out. McAfee Inc.'s SiteAdvisor service has created a 10-question test to see whether you can spot "phishing" attempts to steal passwords and other personal information by mimicking popular Web sites such as eBay Inc.'s PayPal and News Corp.'s MySpace. In eight questions, you are presented with two Web sites or e-mail messages and are asked to identify the authentic one. The final two questions test your general knowledge about scams.

Read More.. (http://www.orlandosentinel.com/technology/sns-ap-techbit-phishing-test,0,2573648.story)