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Many scam artists on the internet today are getting more and more unscrupulous and this article will how you can avoid losing your money to these people who live off ill gotten gains.

Other names for phishing include spoofing and carding. In all these transactions, these scam artists attempt to gain access to your sensitive credit card information and then proceed to take your money.

A typical phising artist would set up a website that looks a lot like the real website and then purchase a list of leads and email those leads. We shall take each of these elements in turn.

The website

Most phising websites have domains that sound like the real one and these scammers purchase templates that are modified from the real website. Such websites are frequently shut down and then these scammers start a new website with a new domain and then go on their spree. These websites are usually situated in Eastern Europe or Russia so enforcement against such scammers is quite hard and almost impossible in certain cases.

The emails

There are several things you need to know about these phising emails. The first is that many large mailing programs today can spoof emails so I can send an email to someone else and put whatever email address I want it to appear to be coming from. The second is that these emails usually use html, this is because they can embed the click link so that you do not realise that you are being directed to the scammer’s own website as opposed to the correct website. Remember, most banks and online payment processors like Paypal never ask you for your password and signup ID via email as they already have it.

The email copy

The old emails used to say that someone has broken into your account and so they need your login ID and your password to check. Just today I received one email that claimed that the number of phising emails was on the rise and asked for my password and ID. Always remember never to give anyone your IDs or passwords as this is a recipe for fraud and disaster on your bank account.

In conclusion, never divulge your sensitive banking or payment processor details online due to reading phising emails. A better thing to do is to forward such scammers to the company involved so that they can take legal action to shut the website down and track the scammers.

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How Hypnotherapy Can Help

Hypnotherapy is the process of using hypnosis to unlock the capacity of the unconscious mind to bring about therapeutic changes by modifying deeply-held assumptions, fears and misconceptions.

The issues that prompt people to turn to hypnotherapy for assistance include:

· Phobias
· Pain management
· Panic attacks
· Performance enhancement
· Habits – e.g. smoking
· Obsessive Compulsive Disorders
· Stress management
· Performance anxiety
· Insomnia
· Confidence, self-esteem and assertiveness

What Hypnosis Is

Hypnosis is a natural state of mind, enhanced by deep mental and physical relaxation. Without knowing it everyone drifts into and out of mild hypnotic states daily. These periods of time are commonly referred to as “day-dreams” or “running on autopilot”.

Hypnosis has nothing to do with being asleep or unconscious in any way. You are able to hear and remember everything, and will know exactly what’s going on.

People often worry that, under hypnosis, they can be made to do things they would not ordinarily agree to. This is incorrect: you remain in control all the time and cannot be made to do things that you genuinely object to.

Participants in entertainment and stage hypnosis shows are fully aware that they will be asked to act in silly ways, and they implicitly agree to this at some level of their mind.

Hypnotherapy

Hypnotherapy is simply the process of using hypnosis to ‘unlock’ or access the unconscious mind, and to bring about therapeutic changes by modifying deeply-held assumptions, fears and misconceptions within it.

There are two forms of hypnotherapy:

· Suggestion Hypnotherapy or Clinical Hypnotherapy

The hypnotherapist guides the client into a relaxed state and enlists the power of the client’s own imagination using a wide range of techniques from story-telling, metaphor or symbolism to the use of direct suggestions for beneficial change.

· Analytical Hypnotherapy or Hypnoanalysis

This therapy is rather more intense and requires several sessions. It involves an in-depth analysis of the individual’s inner fears, blocked and unresolved feelings and repressed memories and is carried out in a quiet and gentle way allowing the memories and emotion to flow and release anger, fear and hurt of the past.

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Isn’t life grand? Most everyone is somehow able to move into this new century with technology sitting in their laps… It’s a new found crush for misunderstanding simple things. What I mean by that is when you were little, one touch told you not to paw at the stove. As a teenager, one car accident may have put seat belts on your mind. Now you have a wireless network at home! What will it take to consider networking safely?

Think of all the strange and forgotten information in your computer – some of it, not surprisingly, you’ve forgotten about. Sure you delete your cookies and wipe the Internet History clean from time to time. You ask your computer not to remember passwords too, but you’re still a target in two possible ways that are as easy to fix as not touching hot things and putting on a seat belt.

Briefly, wireless networks consist of three things: The signals, the broadcaster and the receiver. Your Internet connection is the signal. Your modem feeds into the router which acts as the broadcaster. The network adapter in your computer is then the receiver. With those items, you can surf the Internet without inhibitions; and with no passwords or hurdles for novice hackers to stumble on, they can surf your computer without inhibition.

The open door, even for modest hackers, is that broadcaster. It says, “here I am!” Your receiver is tuned in to it. Other receivers can be tuned in to it from beyond your walls. Once on the same router, they can query for other computers (that’s YOU) on that router. Your defense is simple but certainly not fool-proof for real professional cyber evil-doers. When you set up your wireless network, 9 times out of 10, you’re asked to create a password so that users may sign on – it’s often called a WEP.

This is not a busy-task to waste your time. If a casual user with an infected computer shares your router, your computer too will share in the joy of infection with zero hacking required on the part of the casual user. They were just looking for a free ride that you offered by NOT creating that WEP. You don’t need a hard word but definitely don’t use an easy word that creates the ‘key’…

The computers in the router and in your lap will most likely do the rest. This is a one-time procedure UNLESS your router is reset. To reset the router is to force it to forget everything it knew. All your Internet Settings and magic high speed Internet access numbers will have to be re-entered. A router is reset internally or externally by pushing a button generally on the back. It’s labeled too.

Internal settings can be accessed by entering the IP of the gateway which will soon be common knowledge. If you’ve not placed a password there, anyone can change anything – especially that computer-savvy kid coming home from school who always messes your stuff up as a thank you for room and board. Change the default password to avoid the thanks. And in extreme cases, you can physically HIDE the router to keep that reset button from being pushed thereby defeating all your modest counter measures!

The strongest reason to employ any simple safety here is to eliminate neighborly free-rides from machines that may be infected. Like buckling up, ten seconds setting a router with passwords can save you a lot of grief.

Bryan Applegate spends his time with Dinarius, Inc. repairing networks that were never secured. While the money’s good, there’s other things in life like teaching. Other free lessons and advice can be found at Dinarius.com

Introduction

Scientific inquiry still represents the essence of science. But what leads to good scientific inquiry resulting in excellent research outputs leaving behind a legacy and an impact on the world? Obviously, it must be that research that has the most insightful reach. Examples of such research are the research done by Nobel Laureates. When asking what advice they would like to give to the youth with regards to research the Nobel Laureates – Ciechanover, Hershko, Gross, Jelinek, Wilczek, Buck, Axel and Chauvin – responses can be summerised as:

• Try to ask the important question;
• Investigate something novel;
• Study something that fascinates or obsessed you;
• Think about what nature reveals to you;
• Think independently;
• Focus on those things you don’t understand as an individual;
• Don’t investigate the things that falls within the mainstream of research; and
• Drive the process to fulfillment.

The above clearly gives an indication that researchers should strive to investigate something that is a personal concern and that that bears the characteristics of novelty, authenticity and completeness. This of course in the words of Zion and Slezak (2005) is a much more challenging endeavor than guided inquiry.

Purpose

The purpose of this article is to deduct general research guidelines that can be offered to researchers to enhance the quality of research outputs based upon advice provide by leading researchers in the world.

Literature Review

Based upon the advise provided by the Nobel laureates the researcher will, based on a literature review, translate the concepts into general research educational principles.

1. Investigate something novel and that obsessed the researcher: Personal interest

Novelty is often discovered by investigating the other side of the coin of popular research. Research knowledge can then be gradually developed and accumulated over time by focusing on fine detail of all research work, reading, the matching conclusions and identifying contradictions.
Research done by Amara and Landry that researchers and firms that have access to a larger variety of sources of information enhances the chances of novelty in research.

2. Think independently: Autonomous inquiry

To be able to think independently implies that the researcher should be engage in a constructive manner in the research process, individually or in a group and be able to influence decisions regarding the content and direction of the research. This however, according to Zion and Slezak (2005) should be based upon the principles of “planfulness” in research activities, ability to internalize the evaluation process, openness to experience, flexibility in approach and autonomy in the setting of research goals and the selection of appropriate methods to conduct the inquiry. A further pre-condition is that the researcher should be disciplinary literate. The better the researcher master the disciplinary aspects of the field of study, the better the chances of doing good inquiry.

3. Think about what nature reveals: Reflection

Critical and reflective thinking is required with regards to what to believe, what to do and whether the results obtained were reasonable. When unexpected results are obtained, the researcher should search further to find possible explanations thereof. This may amongst others require an investment in enhancing the available infrastructure for conducting more sophisticated inquiry or probing for answers from literature or from other researchers or experts in the field. If however the unexpected results were caused by an error in approach, it remains the duty of the researcher to investigate where things went wrong and then repeat the research to test the reliability of data obtained.

To reflect on what nature reveals critical milestones are required in every research investigation whereby the performance of the research can be evaluated. At all critical milestones of the research programme the researcher needs to explore what new territories of scientific discovery are opening up and how it could benefit society in general. Further, has the research aim been met in full and is the programme still on the right track? It is also of outmost importance to determine whether the researcher has the capabilities to support or extend the research potential or to consider sourcing-in more expertise to realize the full potential of the research.

4. Drive the process to fulfillment: Completeness

To drive the research process to completeness requires a commitment on a personal and professional level for better or for worse (Burns, 2004) as the researcher set in motion a process of discovery, validation, verification, significance and suitability. Too often researchers stop to early before the real breakthrough is made. Perhaps, the last two concepts, suitability and significance, which often play the biggest role in determining the eventual status of research, are ignored in the planning and execution phases of the research project. Suitability of research refers according to Hornbaek (2006) to “the capability to be used by humans easily and effectively”. In this regard the researcher should consider questions like:

• Are the results obtained accurate enough to be used by others;
• Are the results complete enough to be properly understood by other users;
• Are the quality of results of such a nature that others would like to use it?; and
• Will the potential users have confidence in the accuracy of the results obtained?

Significance of the research is usually determined by (Burns, 2004):

• The level to which the scientific inquiry fit and contribute to the traditional scholarly traditions of the discipline in terms of ethos, discourse and discovery;
• The level to which findings and conclusions are validated and verified by applying forever improving and dynamic researchs designs and methodologies;
• The systemic way in which literature are used to support research findings and to inform the research process; and
• The originality or novelty of the research as it opens new and better ways of knowing and understanding.

Conclusion

Winning research largely depends on new insights created by the research and the added value it creates to society in general. Based upon the assumption that the researcher has mastered the skills of research design and methodology, focusing on personalization of the research interest, autonomous thinking, critical reflection on the discourse of the research and ensuring that the research fulfill all the requirements of completeness, may greatly enhance the quality and value of a research programme.

Bibliography

Amara, N. & Landry, R. 2005. Sources of information as determinants of novelty of innovation in manufacturing firms: evidence from the 1999 statistics Canada innovation survey. Technovation. 25:245-259.

Burns, H. 2004. Four dimensions of significance: Tradition, method, theory, originality. Computers and Composition. 21:5-13.

Hornbaek, K. 2006. Current practice in measuring usability: Challenges to usability studies and research. International Journal Human-Computer Studies. 64:79-102.

Numprasertchai, S & Igel, B. 2005. Managing knowledge through collaboration: multiple case studies of managing research in university laboratories in Thailand. Technovation. 25:1173-1182.

Zion, M. & Slezak, M. 2005. It takes two to tango: In dynamic inquiry, the self-directed student acts in association with the facilitator teacher. Teaching and Teacher Education. 21:875-894.

Jan Grundling is the Head of the Centre for Entrepreneurship, Tshwane Universityof Technology, South Africa.

As the number of people using the internet as an integral part of their daily life grows then it is inevitable that the number of Internet Scams will grow. Unfortunately there are many forms of scam but in this article we will look at three of the most prominent.

419 fraud or “Nigerian Scams”

Also known as advanced fee fraud (AFF), 4-1-9 scams are named after the section of the Nigerian penal code that deals with fraud. Although originally originating in Nigeria these scams can originate from anywhere. If you fall for one of these at best you will lose thousands of Dollars at worst you will lose your life. These usually start with an email from a bank official or the relative of a recently deceased African president or a government minister informing you that they have access to millions of Dollars but need your help to get the money out of the country. The end result is that when the deal is threatened you will be asked for money to secure the release of the funds. Do not under any circumstances reply to these letters, People have been murdered while following up these scams.

Phising

Phising scams can be very elaborate, scammers send out emails to millions of internet addresses purporting to be from a financial institution, and requiring you to log in and confirm your details. The email looks authentic and contains a link that you need to click. If you happen to have an account at the bank featured in the scam then it’s a very natural thing to click the link and login to “your” account except it’s not your account or even your bank. It will be a website setup by the scammers to extract as much information from you as possible, Name, Address Credit card details, Bank login, Password, PIN number etc. Once they have these details it is very likely that will have access to your funds and in the worse case your identity. Avoid these scams by never clicking on a link in an email like these, Banks do not sent out emails requesting you login and confirm your details.

Vehicle Sales Fraud.

If you place an advert online to sell a car, boat or motorcycle you will probably receive one of these scam attempts. You will receive an email from abroad saying that they would like to buy your vehicle and arrange shipping. Once you agree you will get a check or bankers draft in the post within a few days for the amount you asked for the vehicle PLUS the shipping fee you will then be asked to contact the shipper and pay him the extra amount. If you are sensible you will wait for the check to clear then pass on the shipping fee. This is what the scammers expect, the check will only bounce about 3 weeks to a month later at which point your bank will take back the money leaving you short of the shipping money. The best way of avoiding this fraud is not to sell your vehicle to someone who wants to pay the shipper.

I hope all this hasn’t scared you away from the Internet, If you are sensible and wary about offers that seem too good to be true then you should be Ok, just apply the same commonsense you use in everyday life, after all if a stranger walked up to you in the street and said “Hi I am from your bank what’s your credit card number and PIN” would you give it to them?

About the Author: Mark Thompson has spent a number of years traveling the World and Racing Motorbikes, when funds got low he worked as an IT consultant In London. He now lives in Spain and runs a number of Websites Including http://www.WorldoftheWeird.com and http://www.theincomesite.com

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