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Conflicker.B Infection Alert
I don’t know why, but I seem to get a lot of malicious emails. I’m a computer geek, so I [...]
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Email: “Very, Very Serious Warning” or “If This Passes, There Will be War”
Recently an email has been making its rounds, this one challenges the reader to see “how fast can we get [...]
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Conflicker.B Infection Alert
Beware of emails that are circulating from “Microsoft Windows Computer Safety Division” regarding the Conflicker.B worm. The text of the [...]
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Fraud: Watch for errors on Social Security statement
It looks like there is a variant to the fraudulent email that I discussed in my last post. This version [...]
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FRAUD: Review annual Social Security statement
Here’s another case of email fraud, this time supposedly from the Social Security Administration (SSA). This is not really from [...]
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FRAUD: Payment Request from “Apple Inc.”
I’ve got one email account that gets a lot of spam – a LOT of spam. At first it upset [...]
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Bank of the West Phishing Scam
There’re coming quickly these days! Phishing scams that is. The second scam I’ve gotten today is allegedly from Bank of [...]
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Bank of America Phishing Scam
Following almost immediately after the KeyBank Phishing Scam we talked about recently, now we have the Bank of America Phishing [...]
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KeyBank Key Total Treasury Phishing Scam
If you’re like me, you’re probably getting a whole bunch of phishing scams in your inbox regarding banks across the [...]
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BEWARE: Update for Microsoft Outlook / Outlook Express (KB910721) email
I got an email from “Microsoft” today warning me of a “Critical Update” for Microsoft Outlook/Outlook Express (KB910721). The “hot [...]
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The Truth behind 90#
Background Have you gotten an email that says something like “I got a call from AT&T saying they were running [...]
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Running Naked with Silver: What they didn’t tell you about the Bank Bailout
Running Naked “Naked Shorting” is a commodities market term that means selling something today for something that you won’t have [...]
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Who is 1-770-644-7400?
My wife got a call from 1-770-644-7400 this morning from a man with a thick Indian accent saying we had [...]






