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Tag: scam

The Printer scam in Australia

You’re a Mac user — discerning, creative, probably sipping a flat white while AirDropping files across your ecosystem and perhaps you – or your Windows using friend have just a new Epson or Canon printer.  You unbox the the printer, determined to install it yourself and naturally glance at the setup card, and dial the …

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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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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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Rules to deal with scams

This article is probably the kind of thing you should print out and put next to your computer. Its probably worth forwarding onto your friends as well.       Scams are getting more and more personal, with maggots masquerading as human beings calling you up to fleece you up close and personal. Sometimes it …

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