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Got them email from an account who is a known Scammer and the email message was:
marciaburn1@hotmail.com sent you a private message.
http://questionclickanswer.net/http://question-answer-website.com/and I suspect “http://webwordquiz.net” also
I’m sure there are more, but the moral of the story is that most of these sites are just scam. How can you get that for free. Not going to happen in my book, nothing ever comes free. I then did research on those two domains and viewed the source of those two domains and they had a hidden pixel with a domain called (bluecava.com) Thanks to Web of Trust, I now know that this domain has been blacklisted!
What is a Hidden Pixel?
A pixel is a trick done by most advertisers who want to track where you’ve been. It basically tells the browsers to requests a invisible image that you don’t see on you computer and thus every time you get that image you IP is logged. It isn’t something that is good or bad, it is something that companies have done from the beginning of the internet. It just helps me find out more about the spammer because that domain has been used for so long that I know more about it than I probably would of liked to of known.
Exploitable Links!
Now I’m sure this could of easily been an exploited link and thus you really shouldn’t click links unless you are want to ask for trouble. If you ever get something that you don’t know about you should let that person know and verify with them that way you know if it should be trusted. Not all emailed links are to be trust but that doesn’t mean you can’t at least protect yourself. You really should have an Antivirusu software [Affiliate Link] on you system. If your want are looking for recommendations, you should check out my Antivirus suggestion page!
