Tag: phishing
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Tech Crime & Punishment
In a recent article Sophos had a poll asking what the appropriate sentence for tech related fraud — such as fake “Windows Support” call saying you have a virus and asking for $300 to fix it over the phone. I have covered what to do with any unsolicited phone calls before (The “short” answer: do not believe any…
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Email Worst Practices
I had to send this “support request” email today because of some seriously bad error in judgement when someone hit the sent button today. Seriously folks, this is 2014… have web companies and their employees learned nothing? Hi, this morning I got an email asking me to click a link embedded in the email to verify…
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Another round of Dropbox Scam Emails Spikes my Blog
I have gotten about 10 or more fake dropbox invites this past few weeks, and a funny thing happened: my blog stats spiked like crazy! So, given that fact, I want to help people by reposting the link to that article that should show up in searches as being a fresher piece of info. Again,…
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Dropbox Invitation Scam Spam Today
A fake email inviting me to dropbox is probably a scam with a virus-ladden punchline