Holiday Shopping From Home: Watch Out For Virtual Purse-snatchers
The weather has started to turn, and with the season change comes the holiday shopping. Pre-pandemic, people looked forward to these sales for weeks, especially Black Friday. As we reach the end of 2021, it's clear that most places won't have hundreds of people lined up…
How To Thwart An E-mail Phishing Attempt
E-mail phishing attempts are on the rise thanks to advancements in virus and malware detection. These have slowed down the bad guys’ data mining and money-making attempts. As a result, they're going back to basics.Luckily, e-mail phishing has numerous tell-tale signs.
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Emailing phishing attempts usually…
Have you been a victim of a scam? Cybercriminals trick millions of innocent people into giving away sensitive information. Now you're wondering how “to mitigate this situation?” We all make stupid mistakes. But with these sorts of mistakes, you have to act fast to avoid disaster. What you need to do depends on how you were…
You will have to watch out for scams this shopping season when there are so many scammers and knock-off merchandise out there. This holiday season is expecting record attempts from Internet-criminals on shoppers.
Watch out for scams this shopping season.
With all the stores, people, and on-line stores gearing up for holiday sales there will be…
That’s right, scammers are out in full force to steal anyone's credit card information they can get their hands on. The sad thing is most times, including this attempt, consumers freely but unknowingly give the information to them with little to no hesitation.Hitting just after Christmas is over is an email scam that is targeting…
The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation has been working with the authorities in eleven other countries to take down scareware scammers. The effort dubbed ‘Operation Trident Tribunal’ has seized more than 40 computers being used to host Web pages and fake scans designed to scare people into believing they needed to purchase bogus security…
According to the antivirus company “Cyber Defender”, there is a new tactic that Malware creators are beginning to use to get your money. The new method involves you using your phone and using the SMS service to text a number to the malware creator which in turn pays them. Also, like most other malware, paying…
There is a lot of scam on the internet to say the least. Many of them are designed to steal your credit card information, bank account information, or other personal information. Because of the recent disaster in Japan this may be a good time to shed some light on this topic.Scam artists use various disasters…