Nobody understands this better than Oxford resident Michael Banks, who has logged 30,000 hours online since 1979. Banks is one of the pioneers in his field and is internationally renowned for his work.
Banks presents the book in an entertaining manner making use of many anecdotes.
One story tells of how he received mail from himself that he neither wrote nor sent. There are many illegal activities such as pyramid schemes, credit card scams and widespread fraud that occur on the Internet and the Federal Trade Commission has set up a web page for alerts, complaints and information concerning current scams. In 1979, a friend gave Banks a modem, the essential piece of computer equipment for online communication, because he did not know what to do with it. Luckily, Banks was a quick learner. Since no guidebooks were readily available he wrote them himself.