Scams
A Case Of An Infected Phish
Recently, I was alerted to an email making the rounds. It poses itself as coming from the Better Business Bureau and asks for immediate action. All I had to do was download its attachment and follow the necessary steps. The message read as follows: From: Better Business Bureaus [mailto:operations@bbb.org] Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 7:07 [...]
It’s Time For “Scam I Am!”
I just received a scam in my email, or to be more precise, a phishing attack. What’s phishing? It’s when someone attempts to convince you that they’re someone they’re not to get you to do something. Think wolf in sheep’s clothing. This latest attempt came out of the blue. Clue one. It was from a [...]
SiteAdvisor: Fighting the Good Fight
The Web is filled with all sorts of scumware designed to annoy you or spy on you — perhaps both. Fortunately, tools are constantly being designed or updated to help you defend yourself against these threats. One such tool is SiteAdvisor from McAfee. SiteAdvisor is a add-on to Internet Explorer or Firefox and appears as [...]
Beware: PayPal Email Fraud
I recently received an email that came under the guise of PayPal. It was asking me to activate my PayPal account and looked VERY convincing, however, there are some clues that you could benefit from should you get something like this one. The first tip was that it had a completely different recipient’s name. This [...]
I Caught a Whale of a Phish
Well whaddaya know? I actually got one of those phishing scams in the email the other day that I’ve been writing about. This one was supposed to look like it came from Chase Bank, and I have to say that it sounded pretty realistic. Here’s what it said: The security of your information, transactions, and [...]
When Something Smells Phishy
Phishing is the practice of someone posing as someone else to get information they shouldn’t have. It’s something that’s been with us for millenia, but in the online world, it’s reach is virtually limitless. And when they get the information they’re looking for, it most often leads to tragic results for the person they took [...]
An Update On New Virus Post
On Nov. 23 I posted an article about a new virus disguising itself as an e-mail and associated attachment. The latest I’ve heard is that the e-mail appears to come from the FBI. Don’t let that name fool you because it’s really not from the FBI. The message catches your attention because it says it [...]