Phishing scams hit Twitter
Posted by David on Jun 14th, 2010
Twitter seems to have become the latest social networking site to be hit by a huge number of phishing scams.
Emails that look very much like the Twitter official notification emails are coming through to us almost daily suggesting we have changed our email address recently and that we should confirm our email address.
A link to confirm that our email address is given that looks like it would go to Twitter.com but if you hover over the link for a second or two you find it is either an ip address or a czech republic website link.
Clicking the link may take you to a phishing scam site or a site selling some dodgy version of viagra or other such drug, but hopefully will be stopped by your vigilant browser phishing scam detector stating that "the site you are visiting has been reported as a phishing site, are you sure you wish to visit it".
Spam emails are an everyday occurrence and seem to be unstoppable, they get more cunning and devious each week, at least it does not take much to hit delete, and although they can be annoying if you treat every email with a little suspicion you should be safe and never get scammed.
Good luck out there.
Spam and Scam emails get serious
Posted by David on Feb 19th, 2010
Scams are part and parcel of the Internet, we are used to spam and scam emails now, we delete them without thought, and pay no attention to them like the adverts between our favourite programmes on TV and the ads on websites.
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Beware tech support emails
Posted by David on Oct 13th, 2009
It is disturbing when you receive an email that looks genuine and has a ring of truth to it containing a link to an urgent update, and in the blink of an eye you click and suddenly you are infested with virus and spyware.
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Another day another scam
Posted by David on Sep 14th, 2009
It is a fact of life these days being scammed, seems like everyone is doing it.
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Does this scam actually work
Posted by David on Sep 3rd, 2009
I thought that these scams would die off but I suppose the thing about the Internet is that there is a never ending flow of new people coming onto it who could be fleeced for everything they own.
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