
The other scam that readers of Free Technology for Teachers should be aware of involves FeedBurner's email delivery service. If you receive an email containing a subject line to the effect of "confirm your subscription to Free Technology for Teachers." If you have been receiving the daily email from me, you do not need to confirm your email. Clicking any link in the scam email will lead you to a real-looking, but fake FeedBurner email confirmation page.

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Applications for Education
These scams and the screen captures I've included above, are good examples of why we need to teach our students to be careful and intelligent consumers of online media. Teach students to check the url against the actual page content.
Common Craft has a good video that explains phishing scams and how to avoid becoming a victim of one.
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