Please avoid this scam email that is circulating. This one promises big reward money and leverages the popularity of Facebook and Microsoft to attempt to lure you into giving up details. Avoid being phished with an attack this primitive. This type of phishing attempt tries to get you to cough up details that can be then used against you. Don’t ever give out...
Read MoreLots of people are out of work these days. Therefore there must be tons of folks who are out looking for jobs and putting in applications, right? Well spammers have seized on that fact and are out there trying to scam everyone who mistakes their email for the genuine article. The subject line is: Fw:Re: Job Application Pending: Please Respond The body is as follows:...
Read MoreNigerian email scams are still alive and well, as a review of any non-filtered spam email box would show. However, one such scam email takes on the issue of Nigerian scam emails. The text is very over the top. It’s hard to believe too many people would actually be fooled by this type of message, but it goes on every day all over the world. The complete text...
Read MoreA fairly realistic phishing email that purports to come from Intuit is circulating. We’ve been trapping these messages and thought you should be aware of this latest attack. This email imitates the type of email you might expect to receive after ordering from Intuit. However, it is not from them and the links in the message of the email are dangerous to...
Read MoreSpammer just aren’t like most people. When the average tech enthusiast heard about the death of Steve Jobs, they felt reflective about all he accomplished in his life. Spammers instead immediately concocted a scheme using his name and sent out the emails and the Facebook alerts. These days, news travels fast. This sense of urgency has extended to cyber...
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