We have a new Literacy Now Co-ordinator, Naomi Ludington. Naomi has made Penticton her home for the past 10 years. She is a parent, educator, and administrator and has always had a keen interest in literacy issues. Naomi has been volunteering on the Literacy Now Family Literacy Sub-committee during the past year and is thrilled to be taking on the Co-ordinator role for the next phase of our Community Literacy Plan.

 

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The Internet has provided scam artists with a whole new toolbox for targeting victims. It has spawned numerous online scams and new jargon to describe them, such as phishing, spoofing, bogus websites and spyware.

 

Phishing and Spoofing: scammers use emails to "fish" the Internet hoping to hook you into giving up your login, password, and/or credit card information. The phisher sends an email impersonating a legitimate company (called phishing) such as a financial institution or Ebay. The email then directs you to a "spoofed", or look-alike website to update your account information. The bogus site looks almost identical to the legitimate site.

 

Bogus Websites: be especially wary of sites that impersonate legitimate websites, such as a third party payment service for online auctions or an escrow service that is supposed to hold the received funds until a transaction item is received.

 

Spyware: software that covertly gathers your information, such as passwords and credit card numbers, through your Internet connection without your knowledge.