April 20, 2016
ONLINE PERILS
Jenny: Good evening. My name is Jenny Fowler and I would like to welcome all our listeners to Net News, your weekly program dealing with all 1.)____ ______. Tonight we are
fortunate to be joined by David Akris, head of the Internet security company WebLock. Now, this evening, we are going to be talking 2.)_______ about matters related to e-mail such as spam and the latest fear to grip the online community, the strange 3.)________ which goes by the name of phishing. David, welcome to Net News.
David: Good evening Jenny.
Jenny: Right, what I would really like to know first from you David is this: how on earth
can I 4.)______ the amount of spam mail I find every morning in my inbox? I think things are getting absolutely 5.)_______. I mean, this morning there must have been about 30 to 40 e-mails covering everything from having won the lottery to 6.)________ things I would rather not mention on this show. What can a normal e-mail user such as myself do to
combat this ever-growing problem?
David: Now there are a couple of strategies that we can employ to reduce this 7.)_______ annoying problem. First of all, you have to be really guarded about where you leave your e-mail address. Of course, you give it to all your friends and you give it to contacts you have through your workplace, although I would also add as a strong 8.)_________ that you have separate personal and work e-mail accounts. But what you must not do is to 9.)________ around the Internet leaving your e-mail address for everyone and his brother to find. Because, believe me, there is no shortage of 10.)_________ individuals out there who will harvest your e-mail address among the thousands of others either for their own personal gain or to sell to third parties.
Jenny: Wow, I didn't realize it was so simple.