I have started to see Phishing emails aimed not at banking and financial information, but at gathering email addresses and passwords. This probably seems the least important attack, yet it is probably the most severe. Why? OK, so a hacker gets your email address and your password and can now go to a webmail website [...]
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 [...]
How exciting, you have received an email telling you that you have won a prize from Google. There’s a PDF attached, what do you do? You could open the PDF, read the instructions on how to claim your £450,000 and then email Mr Trevor Allan at the Google Promotion Award Team. Oh, but that’s not [...]
Here’s an example of a phishing email that I have just received It pretends to be from PayPal and is trying to frighten the recipient into thinking there is a huge charge back against them. There is a html attachment to open to ‘resolve’ the problem. Open it and that is when the problems really [...]
I have seen this content before in printed letters, but this time it is arriving via email from “Domain Services” and demanding an immediate response (by tomorrow in fact). What is it ‘offering’? Well it seems to be very confused and I expect that is part of the ploy. It makes out that it is [...]
