Did you get a check in the mail for a sweepstakes that you didn’t enter?
Here’s the scenario: You go to your mail box and find a letter, usually without a return address, and usually sent from someone outside the country....
September 7, 2010
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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 know they’re malicious and I know...
April 14, 2010
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 this one around the United States...
April 12, 2010
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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 email encourages you to run the...
February 17, 2010
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 is almost identical, it just uses...
November 23, 2009
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 the SSA, nor does the link...
November 23, 2009
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 me that a large chunk of...
November 20, 2009
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