How to Spot a Tech Support Scam
There seems to have been a rash of tech support scams lately, some with people actually to pretend to be from Microsoft. The scammers seem to target online forums and tech support sites, so be careful...
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Japan Quake Spam Links to Malware
Surprised? You shouldn’t be. This type of thing seems to happen every time there is a major disaster anywhere in the World. We saw it with Katrina, the Indonesian tsunami, and countless others. The...
View ArticleUPS Notification Spam
I can’t believe that a somewhat savvy friend of mine asked me about this message. He was actually considering opening it. Some people will fall for anything. The first thing is that this message is...
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(Humor) I Couldn’t Resist Replying to This
I get these scams all the time and I just couldn’t resist answering this one. Here’s the exchange: Dear Mr. Hendrik: God bless you, sir! This grant could not have come at a better time. You see, I had...
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Operation Swiper – Largest ID theft bust in history
From BankInfoSecurity.com (BIS): On Oct. 7, the District Attorney of Queens County, N.Y., and City of New York Police announced the results of a two-year investigation that resulted in the biggest...
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Beware Chuck Norris Facebook scam
Hey! Chuck Norris is NOT dead. The Facebook messages claiming to link to a video news report on his death are a scam. Here’s the text of a typical message: Chuck Norris dies at age 71! Not a Joke....
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Beware Whitney Houston autopsy links on Facebook
It isn’t true, folks. Yes, Whitney Houston died; no, there isn’t a video of her autopsy available. It’s a scam, typical of other “disaster news” scams that seem to pop up around other shocking news...
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Don’t let fake antivirus sucker you
Fake antivirus, also known as scareware, rogue antivirus and scamware, is one of most common threats you will encounter on the web today. You’ve probably seen it before, and if you’re smart, you didn’t...
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Canadian drugstore spam poses as Amazon order cancellation
Source: FortBendNow.com Last week, I started to get emails in my Yahoo! mail, purportedly from Amazon.com, about a cancellation of my order. I figured these were bogus and confirmed this when my wife...
View ArticleBeware of Easter holiday scams
I know I probably don’t have to mention this, but beware of scammers targeting the Easter holiday. Same tricks, different holiday. (I know this is a bit late in coming since it’s already late on Easter...
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