Tag: scam

Spotting a fake email

I sometimes fantasise about finding scammers locked  in a room somewhere , maybe even catching them in the act and, as Marsellus Wallace said in Pulp Fiction,  “I’ma get medieval on your ass” But alas, all I can do is try and help people avoid their scumbaggery.  These examples of wasted DNA, these rat brained …

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For your friends sake please watch and share

This is less like an article and more like a public announcement. It is really a call to action. This is not my work. Not at all. In fact, the lengths these people have gone to in order to expose the scum that call, email and text us day in day out is nothing short …

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You might be infected and not know it

In the last few weeks I have been inundated with calls from clients who have managed to get Malware on their Mac. Whether it be by clicking on an ad on the fastest way to rid themselves of fat from their eyebrows, a sensationalist article about Orlando Bloom or being faked into updating their Flash …

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Latest scam is just that

Over the last few weeks there has been a surge in scam activity. One in particular that is worrying everyone goes something like this: “I know, password, is your password, you may not me…” What makes this email (scam) all the more worrying is that often they include one of your actual passwords. They do …

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Safari scam

 There has been an increase in a new kind of scam and, sadly, these scum bags are targeting Mac users. This is what happens. You might be surfing and you go to a website that is, shall we say, low rent and substandard. One client was simply looking for a photo of Santa when she …

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