I get lots of requests for setting up an email account in different email programs, so I thought I would provide a list of the best instructions I have found that I pass on to my clients. All thanks to those that have provided these resources, it seems silly to replicate these over and over
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The tricks these guys try… So I get an email, apparently a scan of an image from a Xerox copier sent to my inbox. I am going to open the zip file that is attached? Um No! This is what I see wrong with this one… Images don\’t need to be zipped, it doesn\’t compress
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Phishing is all about getting people hooked, line a sinker, this time Amazon is the recipient of the Phishers focus. It seems to be the usual DHL / UPS style scam, where a zip archive is attached to an email that carries the nasty payload. Asking you to print the attached postal label to get
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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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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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I have just started receiving a new wave of scam emails, these look like phishing ones (where the perpetrators try to mimic a reputable website, to encourage the public to enter personal details etc ), but the twist is that they are now changing from fear related (ie for your security, or there was a
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