Today is Black Friday – historically the real start of the Christmas shopping season. Over the next month or so, you’re going to be inundated with advertising for all the wonderful toys, gadgets and other things that you Just Can’t Live Without.

And spammers know it. They ramp up their “advertising” as well at this time of year. It’s easy for the people who receive their email to get fooled and click through since it’s just one more email among the throngs of ads from legitimate websites and advertisers.

Don’t let your guard down. In fact, you need to be even more watchful of what you’re clicking on in your email at this time of year.

Don’t open unknown attachments. Don’t click through to banks, Paypal or other websites from messages claiming your account is in danger of being shut down. All the usual warning apply.

You can find out how to protect yourself effectively from these scams and a number of other online security threats with my Online Security Toolkit.

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