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I received an email recently that lured with many benefits of the 'Signature credit card' and also declared that the credit card gets instant approval on applying online for it! I can get those benefits simply clicking on the 'Apply Online' given in that mail! Is it so simple to receive the credit card, or is it a hacking for knowing particulars through such trap, I wonder!
On browsing with the URL, (www.hoolygoolyapp.com) that the email seemed to originate, it was found leading to a website of an online fashion store only!
All other features of that email resembled to that of the credit card's bank! Moreover, I am getting yet such more emails from that same email id but with different wordings in their title, subject and contents!
I found an interesting message in the Whatsapp App of my mobile phone. It informed that one can video-call for free by tapping on a 'Whatsapp' web-link given down in the message. But that link directed to a website. I closed that website page as I had been already warned of such websites. Then in a few minutes I received a call from a friend in Dubai who by this calling checked video-calling using that web-link! But there was no video display of my friend on my phone. I warned the disgusted friend about such websites, and to desist from using them. Then I entered the URL (web address) found in that Whatsapp message in my computer browser. Only a warning was displayed as 'Reported Web Forgery!' On the computer, that fake website was blocked! Whether it is a faking or a hacking or a spying or a mocking website or not, it has some motive behind it to deceive us. So, beware of such websites and their directing web-links in the Whatsapp messages of phones. Delete the messages containing them.
Previous year, in June, the Sifymail of Sify.com announced cessation of its service suddenly. It advised its users to enter users' other email address to get the mails redirected to it. I didn't get even a single mail redirected such. I had to retrieve all the pictures and documents in the attachments beforehand. And I had to inform all the friends and relatives about this closure, and request them to communicate with another email address of me. Moreover, I had entered my sifymail address as alternate mail address in many websites that I had to change. Recently, I found also that my membership in a blog directory is lost: I could not sign in in it as before! [It is Blogadda.com].
A sentiment lies behind this Sifymail service closure: it was my first ever email account created for my use in the year 2002 :(
