Well they keep rolling off the spam/scam production line. This one pretends to be an email from mail support of a specific domain. As with all of these mass email scams, they don\’t realise that the person they sent the email to manages all of the mail for that domain (Including the \”support\” that is […]
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Many times there are things that show the US Centricness (Is that a word?) of the internet: .com readily meaning US site US date formats in online forms USD as the default currency Well another example is the idea that every country must use UPS and DHL for their parcels. Why else would all of
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I have received a Twitter email saying that: Due to concern that your account may have been compromised in a phishing attack that took place off-Twitter, your password was reset. Please create a new password by opening this link in your browser: Now, funnily enough, I don\’t remember any phishing attempts coming my way, and
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Some of the more common recent spam comments posted on this blog and others are obvious spam, but have the added benefit of including jokes. Some are actually ok. Here are a few recent ones… Why did the dinosaur cross the road? Because there were no chickens in those times. What do you get when
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Local NZ ISP Igrin is the latest to be targetted for a phishing scam. This one is quite crude as even the links look nothing like Igrin links This message is from the webmail IT service, you are to provide to us the below information to re-validate your account due to spam. What was the
There are plenty of domain name scams out there, I have spoken about SEDO branded ones, Chinese domain name scams and there are plenty of others. They are all generally trying to trick you into either registering a name similar to the one you own or trying to encourage you to renew with them as
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These virus guys are busy, so soon after the DHL and Mail Server viruses, we now have a Facebook one. It will be interesting to see if people are getting wise to these forms of delivery, or whether the threat of losing access to Facebook will panic people into opening the attachment. Again it looks
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Wow, the virus / malware people are working overtime, my last post was about the Mail Server Upgrade scam / virus, now interestingly, a DHL email has slipped past my virus scanner. In the past these have been picked up and have never been a threat, but this one got through, the email reads Subject:
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I have had a couple of clients send on emails they have recieved with what seems to be a reasonably well crafted email describing an upcoming mail system upgrade. The key thing is there is a link given to click on that in one email was direct to an executable file, assumed by me to
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There are plenty of domain name scams out there, ones that pretend they are your registrar, but fool you into transferring your domain to them, others that try to get you to register other extensions (See Chinese Domain Name Scams) This one is a little difference, in that by using words like: Domain, Register, Renewal,
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