Protect Yourself Against Internet Fraud And Spam

At ILME, we do not collect email addresses nor store them in any fashion. We do not sell nor distribute email addresses or share private information about any individual. We hold your privacy as a trust.

We do not gather nor store any information about any visitor beyond the usual site maintenance of any legitimate website.

We welcome your prayer requests and want to assure you that people are praying for your requests. We know that sometimes you would like a reply to your request and we'd love to reply to you but need your email address so we can do that. At the same time, we'd like to offer some common sense helps to protect your email address from spam.

We do not sell any email addresses from those who submit prayer requests to our site to any 3rd party. However, saying that, spammers (advertisers) send 'robots' to guestbooks and message boards, snooping for email addresses that they in turn sell to advertisers. There are also unscrupulous people and even cults who visit websites, especially prayer pages, to gather addresses and to answer prayer requests as if they represent the website. Just for your information. If you receive any answer to your prayer request on the I Lift My Eyes - Christian Prayer Warriors,Praying For Others & Submit Prayer Requests website that is not from us we can not verify the doctrine nor the heart intent of the sender.

Most websites have no way of stopping these annoying robot critters from scooping up email addresses. I use a method to help stop some of these harvesters from taking addresses from my site

To help protect your personal email address, here are some ideas.

Consider getting an Gmail or Hotmail free email address and use this address for submitting prayer requests, talking in chat rooms, message boards, prayer boards, online shopping, etc. When it gets too full of spam, just create a new address. That way, your personal email address won't be the target of the spam robots. Consider the Yahoo or hotmail accounts as disposable addresses. Every year, or when you notice a sharp increase in junk mail arriving in those email boxes, just abandon them and start a new email address. Never give out your permanent, personal email address to anyone that you don't personally know.

Replace the @ in your email address for the word -AT-, such as prayerneeded-AT-hotmail.com the robots don't recognize the word -AT- as email but most people will realize -AT- equals @. This will only work if you leave your address in the BODY of your message and not in the spot set aside for email. If a site insists you leave your email address and you don't quite trust the site or their privacy policy is too hard to understand, place a fake address such as anon@anon.org .

MySpace®, MyKids: A Parent's Guide to Protecting Your Kids and Navigating MySpace.com Boasting more that 75 million users, the MySpace online community is the second most visited site on the Internet. It has become a haven for teens and young adults, a virtual hangout where friends (and strangers) share thoughts, pictures, music, video, and more. Parents naturally wonder... Should they be concerned? What can they do to protect their kids? Are there valuable uses for MySpace? Jason Illian demonstrates that with careful use and close monitoring, MySpace can help kids facilitate relationships and help parents understand and interact with their children’s world like never before. In addition to teaching adults how to log on to MySpace and set up an account, this valuable guide explains how parents can talk with their kids about their MySpace communications, join groups, forums, and bulletin boards to keep informed, and use filters, alerts, and other technologies to track their kids’ online activities.

How to protect your friends personal email addresses:

NEVER forward an email or send email to more than one person without using the BCC feature.
BCC (blind carbon copy) hides the email addresses you are sending mail to and this way unscrupulous people can't get hold of your friends addresses.

To send email via BCC using Outlook Express.

Start writing a new email as usual.
Go to the VIEW menu at the top of your email you are sending.
Click on ALL headers
You'll now see the BCC field. Place all your friends email addresses to whom you wish to send email to in that field and proceed as normal.

Don't send your friends webpages that use "I recommend" software. Those sites are often funny greeting card pages, inspirational poems and stories, etc. You can send them a personal email inviting them to the page rather than using the box provided on the page. Greeting cards, inspirational story and poetry pages, etc that have tonnes of pop up ads and advertisement banners are definitely are trying to sell you something. Unless your friend has a yahoo/hotmail address, refrain from sending them such websites via the websites forms. Make sure to read the privacy policies. Yes they are boring and sometimes hard to understand but you can safe a lot of grief if you take the time to do so.

1. Your true full name, address, phone number, etc. should never be revealed in a email to a stranger unless you have thoroughly researched that person. Never give out bank account numbers to a stranger. You might want to set up a special E-mail address through hotmail or another free E-mail service, to use as your junk E-mail address. No matter how much you may trust a person, they could still be trying to con you. CHILDREN should never ever give out their full name, their address or phone number, or even the name of their school or town to anyone in a chatroom, email or text message, adult or child.

2. No matter how well you think you might know a person through email, remember that they are probably only showing you a part of their true self. There are some con artists who use chatrooms, message boards and email lists to scam and misrepresent themselves, often giving hard luck stories of poverty, etc.

Some points to think about when asked to give money or your resources or sponsorship.
If someone says they are homeless and yet are able to email you frequently, where do they get their internet access? Internet cafes are very expensive overseas and in your local country. Homeless shelters have limited access for the internet.
If someone says that church after church, group after group have turned them away and has not helped them, why do they think that you, as a non professional would be able to help them? Point people towards their local church, social agencies, etc, if they are in desperate situations.

Provide them with this list: Mercy Agencies

3. If an offer is made that is too good to be true, more than likely it is too GOOD to be TRUE! Research carefully any financial plan or aid people might try to get you involved with.
Visit:
http://truthorfiction.com
http://snopes.com
http://www.scambusters.org/
http://fraud.org/
Especially be on alert for any requests to be part of an investment plan coming from foreign countries, especially third world countries as there are many scam artists infiltrating mailing lists, prayer boards and chatrooms asking for financial backing or partnership in so-called fabulous financial opportunities. ANYONE who contacts you out of the blue, not using your personal name, listing contacts you know or giving you any indication they know about you personally, offering you millions or thousands of dollars is almost certainly scamming you. Period. Many of these scams are directed to Christian pastors and churches, offering so called inheritances or bursaries, so research carefully and NEVER take anything at face value. Google the name of any organization mentioned in any letter, check it out on fraud sites.

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