Here is a new phishing email that I have never seen before – targeted at the Apple Store. I suppose with the ever increasing usage of this site it could only be a matter of time before someone found a way to benefit from targeting phishing emails at it. And receiving this email on my [...]
Here’s something that I have never seen before, Phishing emails aimed at harvesting email access details. I suppose though there is a good reason for it! Of course, why would any anyone want to know your name, email address and password to upgrade your email account? Simple – because they want access to your email [...]
Here is an email that could potentially catch a lot of people out and spread itself around the net. Quite simply, it is an email asking you to verify your website’s hosting set-up. It is very easy to get hold of a list of website owners and to send such an email. What they can [...]
I had read about this scam in the week and then I was amazed to receive the very same phone call yesterday. Rather than put the phone straight down, I played along for a few minutes! Firstly the caller asked me if I was Mr Thompson. When I told him that I wasn’t, he just [...]
This one is not really a scam, but it is using a spam list to try to persuade you to buy more domain names than you really need. But there is the implication that by buying this domain you will receive more traffic, but that is not what my research tells me. So you receive [...]
