Safe Web Surfing Rule # 1: READ the URL

Safe Web Surfing Rule # 2: See Rule # 1Email and social networking sites might be a global phenomena, but English remains widely used in URLs and elsewhere on the Internet. In the English verbiage in malicious email, URLs and web sites there are words that instantly raise red flags to native speakers. However those red flags may not wave for those who speak no English or it is their second language. Here is yet one more example.It starts with a Facebook post with a picture of a cute girl (not shown since the photo might be misappropriated) and a link to what looks like Facebook chat. The hyphens that are used in the URL instead of periods should be one giveaway. The fact that it’s a URL with a country domain TK should be another giveaway (probably in any language). That's Tokelau, a territory of New Zealand in the South Pacific.(click on graphic to enlarge it)So the unwise Albanian Web user, seeking to chat with a pretty girl in Tokelau, possibly thinking she's in Turkey (country domain "TR" ) , goes to the (continue reading...)