Nowadays, many of us obtain e-mail invitations to join ethnic networking websites much as Facebook, LinkedIn, or MySpace. These services attain it cushy for members to send out invitation emails complete with response links, and it is in their best interests to do so – as more friends clew up, these sites register higher visits and page views, potentially leading to increased advertising income.

While only a few well-known ethnic networking sites used to exist, this number has skyrocketed, resulting in many more invitations in your e-mail Inbox. Even if you undergo the sender and study of a ethnic network to which you’ve been invited, before you click on an invitation response link, take a second and consider that not all invitation e-mails are what they seem. Some fraudulent “friends” and “social networks” could hit drastic consequences to your section and privacy: