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05.28.10

Spams, Scams, and Hoaxes

For the LORD gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding;
He stores up sound wisdom for the upright; He is a shield to those who walk
uprightly; He guards the paths of justice, and preserves the way of His
saints. Then you will understand righteousness and justice, equity and every
good path. When wisdom enters your heart, and knowledge is pleasant to your
soul, discretion will preserve you; understanding will keep you, to deliver
you from the way of evil, from the man who speaks perverse things, from
those who leave the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness;
who rejoice in doing evil, and delight in the perversity of the wicked;
whose ways are crooked, and who are devious in their paths. - Proverbs
2:6-15.

It appears that email spamming along with the scams associated with them is
increasing. Just today (2002) a list of the top ten email spams and scams
was released for the past month. The list was compiled by Sophos an
anti-virus firm. The number one spam and malicious scam was the email
claiming that the file jdbgmr.exe was a virus and giving instructions to
delete the file. The claim is that by removal of the file it will keep your
computer from getting a virus but this is a hoax. Instead of removing a
problem it will create a problem if the file is removed.

Then there is the Bill Gates (number 9 on the list) spam, which claims that
Bill will give you $245 every time you forward the email to another person.
Not true! And there is still the giving away a fortune emails, which seem to
be multiplying daily. Most of these originate in Nigeria and claim to be
willing to give you a large sum of money. But there is always a catch and
many have ended up losing much of their money trying to get the promised
amount.

How can we protect ourselves from these often malicious emails? We need
wisdom! True wisdom comes from our Father, who is willing to bless us
abundantly with great wisdom. From the writer of Proverbs we see that wisdom
comes from the "mouth of the Lord." His Holy Word provides us with wisdom.
The more of the Word of God we have in our life the greater will be our
wisdom. As we act upon the Word of God in obedience we will find that we are
"walk(ing) uprightly."

As we saturate our lives with the Word of God and live according to that
Word we find we will reap countless benefits as a result. Some of those
benefits are wisdom, knowledge, understanding and discretion. Then we will
be delivered from the "way of evil" and from those who delight in "doing
evil."

2010 Update: Not much has changed since 2002 except that there are more
computer viruses than ever before. In addition, there is malware, adware,
trojans, and other junk that can affect your computer. You still want to be
careful about the links that you click on and the files that you open. There
is now what is called a rouge antivirus. You think you are buying an actual
antivirus but instead the rouge antivirus takes your money and all of your
personal information.

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