{"id":248,"date":"2008-05-15T14:54:44","date_gmt":"2008-05-15T22:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/?p=248"},"modified":"2020-04-09T02:15:19","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T10:15:19","slug":"dns-whassat-its-a-great-tool-against-scammers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/2008\/05\/dns-whassat-its-a-great-tool-against-scammers\/","title":{"rendered":"DNS (whassat?) it’s a great tool against Scammers!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The DNS Route to Scam Protection Online.
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\nWhen you type in ‘www.scammingsite.com’ on your browser, a lookup is performed to translate the domain name into a unique address (IP Address) that all networked computers understand and which contains the path to the right server. Good people like those at SEO reseller website<\/a> are very good at this sort of thing if you need some help.
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\nYour ISP will have given you two longish ‘numbers-separated-by-dots’ (eg. 207.44.123.28)<\/em> to type in to your Network Settings. These are the Domain Name Servers (DNS) that your computer will use whenever you ask to go to a domain name.<\/p>\n

Right? Well, never mind, just trust me on this one.<\/p>\n

Wouldn’t it be great if, when you did the lookup\/translate part, the result was filtered for Scams\/Profanity\/Pornography\/Crime\/Violence etc etc?<\/p>\n

Well, by changing the DNS servers you use, you can have this great feature – for free, I may ad – and you (and your children\/employees) can surf a little easier. No software to download, no subscriptions, no spam – it couldn’t be easier. Free, simple to do, free, great protection …. \"Use<\/a>what more can I say other than if you don’t believe me, Click this button to find out why you need to change your DNS servers NOW!<\/strong><\/p>\n

(or, you can just change your DNS servers to <\/strong>208.67.222.222 and <\/strong>208.67.220.220 and get on with your life)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

BTW, the same people who run OpenDNS.com<\/a> also run an Anti-Phishing site called, amusingly, PhishTank <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The DNS Route to Scam Protection Online. When you type in ‘www.scammingsite.com’ on your browser, a lookup is performed to translate the domain name into a unique address (IP Address) that all networked computers understand and which contains the path to the right server. Good people like those at SEO reseller website are very good […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[37,20,16,15,12],"tags":[39,150,40,41],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1103,"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions\/1103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}