Chapter 10. Step 7: Understand Risks of Fraudulent Communications and Protect Yourself

Hal finished eating his frozen pizza and headed for his computer in the corner of the living room. He was waiting for an e-mail message from his friend Steve, who was sending him some strategies for the computer game they were going to play tonight.

As the time approached for their game, Hal checked his e-mail. There were two messages from Steve in the inbox. There were also six messages that seemed to have been sent by Hal but had bounced back to his account as undeliverable, and all of them had the same subject line, "Be A Hit w/Girls." He’d never sent out anything like that. Curious, he clicked on one and scanned the undelivered message. It had been sent out ...

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