Archive for the ‘Email and Web Scams’ Category
Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010
Wherever there is opportunity and invention, you will find people who stoop low to take advantage!I have had spam sent through Twitter, whether it be by spam bots or live spammers following me in the hope I follow back or Direct Messages if I am unlucky not to see through ...
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Saturday, July 17th, 2010
The tricks these guys try...So I get an email, apparently a scan of an image from a Xerox copier sent to my inbox.I am going to open the zip file that is attached? Um No!This is what I see wrong with this one...Images don't need to be zipped, it doesn't ...
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Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
Phishing is all about getting people hooked, line a sinker, this time Amazon is the recipient of the Phishers focus.
It seems to be the usual DHL / UPS style scam, where a zip archive is attached to an email that carries the nasty payload.
Asking you to print the attached postal ...
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Friday, February 19th, 2010
Well they keep rolling off the spam/scam production line.This one pretends to be an email from mail support of a specific domain. As with all of these mass email scams, they don't realise that the person they sent the email to manages all of the mail for that domain (Including ...
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Friday, February 5th, 2010
Many times there are things that show the US Centricness (Is that a word?) of the internet:
.com readily meaning US site
US date formats in online forms
USD as the default currency
Well another example is the idea that every country must use UPS and DHL for their parcels.
Why else would all of ...
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