The Email Tracking and Fraud Prevention
By Milica D. Djekic
Since the early beginnings of digital systems and the first discoveries of the email data exchange – there
have been the heaps of methods how to misuse such communications and commit some kind of fraud
over the content being sent through the email channel. In other words, just try to imagine if any of your
confidential information such as technical documentation, intellectual property or corporation’s stamps
and signatures would get transmitted through the internet and the bad guys would come to the possession
of those sensitive details. Indeed, there would be feasible to obtain so many frauds over those contents
claiming that you are someone else that would so freely manage those data and try to take some kind of
financial advantage over those findings. The fraud by itself is so impactful crime that would take a lot of
money per a year from anyone being targeted by that sort of criminality. For instance, there is not the
rare case that so many cybercrime groups would hack the colleges and Universities worldwide and steal
the templates of the degrees, diplomas and certifications and once they get such a frame – they would
complete it using the fake information and sell it on the black market and someone getting no correlation
with – let’s say – the medicine would show the doctor’s degree on the job’s interview and maybe get the
chance to start his medical professional career somewhere. Also, it’s possible to steal the entire interview
selection procedures from someone’s computer or another device and prepare your skillful fraudster to
take advantage over such knowledge. The similar scheme could get applied in any other fields of human
activities and if the background check is not straightforward – the people could easily get the victims of
so simple email tracking espionage. For such a reason, it’s so crucially important to protect your email
account and ban the access to the cyber criminals to so easily monitor your email communications. In
the practice, there are some methods how to prevent your email from being traced, but in so many cases