Phishing scams As the holiday season fast approaches so do the inevitable phishing scams. What’s a phishing scam? Fraudsters may use a practice called phishing to try to obtain your sensitive data such as usernames, passwords, and credit card information. These fraudsters impersonate legitimate companies or people, sending emails, text messages containing links that attemptContinueContinue reading “Holiday season phishing”
Category Archives: Email
Why you should not open phishing emails
Spam the world! Recently a data security researcher known as Benkow found millions of emails and credentials on a spambot server. Your email address, your password, your name, your other online details are probably on that server. So, what is a spambot and why do crooks use them? Or more importantly, why do crooks need huge listsContinueContinue reading “Why you should not open phishing emails”
Email scams
Did you get an email from a friend recently with a PDF attached to open? Be careful it may not be what it seems. An email scam which aims to trick you into giving up your email login details by sending you a (fake) link to a PDF has been doing the rounds this yearContinueContinue reading “Email scams”
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