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Some scams are pretty obviously exactly that.

Hey boys! Problems in the bedroom? Looking to enlarge your penis by a further 12 inches?

Of course you are! For more information on how to do this please send your bank account details to this address.

So we can provide you with the quickest delivery of our fantastic product UP & 'ARD,,, please send a copy of your house keys and address to us, along with the times you'll be out of the house.

This way we can have a surprise waiting for you when you arrive home!

Others can be less plain. Moments ago I got an email from someone I'd never heard of telling me he'd changed his email address, asking me to click a link so he knows I've acknowledged this fact.

This is clearly something that arouses suspicion amongst most people, but enough people - whether lonely, wishful or just plain stupid - will actually reply.

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Email messages, junk, spam and pop-ups - the chances of any of these being of interest to you is minimal.

My advice: close them, delete them, filter them to junk as soon and as quickly as possible.

If you think it may be a genuine email/pop-up slowly move the cursor over it without clicking and look at the URL (the website address) that appears at the bottom of the window, checking whether it is in any way affiliated with the actual company that the email claims to have originated from.

Chat-rooms. I'm sure we've all read heart-breaking stories about a 17-year-old girl who decides to meet her ideal man from the internet to chat and "maybe more."

Only problem is, she's not 17 - she's 13 and he's 45, not 19 like he claimed.

This is disturbing and sick to say the least. But there's no realistic way we can stop 13-year-olds from getting onto these chat-rooms, short of not letting them on the internet.

Similarly, there's no way to shut down chat-rooms.

So how do we stay safe and keep private online?

Common sense. Don't bother with chat rooms, don't put your personal details onto your Facebook page and definitely, definitely don't get suckered into a lottery/online pharmacy/penis enlargement/bank details swindle.

*Note: Anthony did not actually touch any people, penises or chat-rooms during the writing of this article.