How To Quickly Identify An Email Scam (Experts Sharing Ideas)

About ten years ago I remember hearing about a man who was the victim of an email scam. He received a message from a man claiming he had won some kind of lottery and was entitled to millions in British pounds. To get the money, all he had to do was send ten thousand pounds to clear the taxes. I am sure you can see where this is going.

The man, a resident of the United Kingdom, lost every pence of his life savings. The person who took it? A scammer in Russia who was one of many scammers working through the web.

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Steve Jobs' Rude Emails with Angry iPhone User Deemed Fake

As some may have heard from numerous tech blog posts, there have been rumors of a disgruntled iPhone 4 user sending emails to Steve Jobs' (sjobs@apple.com) email address about complaints of horrible reception with the new iPhone and how he is being made fun of for choosing that phone that he will be switching to the Droid on Verizon. Supposedly, Steve Jobs counteracted these emails with replies such as "Calm down" and "It's just a phone". Apparently, the emails were first posted on Boy Genius Report and then sold to Apple Insider, not knowing they were Photoshopped!

These chain of fake emails were later exposed by Fortune via knowledge of a top Apple spokesman. In the end, Apple has officially informed bloggers that the emails were a hoax and as we earlier found out today, the iPhone 4's reception issues are a mere "software problem."

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