The internet has its share of pranksters and weirdos.<\/p>\n
Sometimes a person\u00a0will write to you asking you for details of your services, fees and phone number. The person\u00a0has a female name and a female\u00a0email address preethishah@xyz.com<\/em><\/p>\n You get excited about\u00a0getting\u00a0a new client, and give her all your\u00a0info.<\/p>\n And then you find your phone number mischievously pasted on some website and you start receiving all kinds of prank calls. It was actually a guy pretending to be a girl!<\/p>\n What can you do to avoid this?<\/p>\n It’s useful to detect early whether the person making the inquiry is a woman or a man. That will save you time, effort and your valuable privacy.<\/p>\n There are some smart and free tools to help you. I cannot reveal ALL my tools on this blog (I don’t want the pranksters to get smart). I share them all in my training programs.<\/p>\n But here is a simple free tool that you can use right now. Find the IP address<\/strong> of the person sending you the mail. That will tell you what city the person is actually from. Now, if the city the person says they are from does NOT match the city the person is actually from, that usually means something is fishy. For example : person says she is writing from Delhi, but the IP address reveals the person is actually from Cochin. You can treat now this person as suspect and ignore them or give them misleading\/confusing info that\u00a0makes them go away.<\/p>\n