Internet users are being warned to ensure that their routers have unique passwords, after email spammers have been spotted sending phishing links,ﾠ…
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Valentine’s Day: How to Avoid Heart-Shaped Cyber Scams
With Valentine’s Day around the corner, Abatangle said many of the phishing scams may try appealing to the “love and lust” factor people feel to trickﾠ…
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How to spot a phishing email scheme
Bovino also said a phishing email will often urge you to act quickly trying to scare you by saying an account of yours, or your computer has beenﾠ…
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Phishers Pounce on Anthem Breach
Phishers and phone fraudsters are capitalizing on public concern over a massive data breach announced this week at health insurance providerﾠ…
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Porter PD warns of computer virus phone scam
Internal Revenue Service says Beware of Bogus IRS Emails
1 in 5 Employees Will Open Suspicious Email and Fail to Notify IT …
Indian Microsoft Computer Virus Scam – 441138680309
The phishing scams come by phone too. It happened to a friend of mine. He had a new computer, but had been on vacation a couple weeks. They got a call from “Microsoft” saying they had a problem with there computer. (Microsoft is never going to call you and say this) My friend let them remote login to his computer and they went to the Event Viewer to see if there are any errors. I’m afraid there are always errors in the Event Viewer on a Windows PC. If a program times-out waiting for a response from another program or something it will generate an error in the Event Viewer. Anyway, they asked for $250 to fix the viruses and errors
Read below the 800notes Forum entry about a recent phone phishing scam from the UK …..
Got a call from this number: 441138680309 , which showed up as 4-113-868-0309 on my telephone. I found out later that the country code is +44 which is for the …
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