I have been sent a letter by the “Asia Business Partners” that sounds very inviting. So inviting, my first thoughts were “scam”. The old adage is that if it sounds too good to be true then it probably is, so I searched the name on Google and found a few people who say they were [...]
The BBC has today reported on the problem of fake anti-virus phone calls, something that we talked about on these pages over 2 months ago. The BBC’s report claims that these phone calls are coming from organised crime gangs, employing call centres that are employing 300-400 people. They are also paying website owners huge fees [...]
Here is a clever phishing email targeted at PayPal that readers might need to be aware of. Quite cleverly it was aimed at the email address that is displayed on my contact page, which is (of course) a website design site. However, that’s a receiving email only and doesn’t associate with PayPal, so I knew [...]
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 [...]
