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Scam alert: Beware the insidious ‘Unsubscribe Confirmation’ email scam!

Posted on April 28, 2026

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Email scams have been making the rounds ever since email first burst onto the scene back in the early days of the Internet.

There are countless ways for scammers to use fraudulent emails to separate honest people from their money, and unfortunately I’ve probably seen every one of them at one time or another.

Well, right now there’s a relatively new kind of scam email making the rounds. [Read more…]

Scam alert: Don’t fall for this dangerous PayPal email scam

Posted on March 21, 2026

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As you probably know, scammers are constantly using phishing attempts to try to steal the login info for our financial accounts.

And sadly, they’re often successful.

While they certainly love stealing logins to victims’ bank accounts, the scammers seem to have a special love for scamming PayPal customers. [Read more…]

Scam Alert: Beware this very dangerous ‘Cloud Payment Declined’ email scam

Posted on December 29, 2025

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There’s yet another very dangerous email scam making the rounds right now, and unfortunately a lot of people are falling for it.

Although the text and appearance of the various emails people are receiving vary just a bit, they all claim that either your “cloud payment” is overdue or your last payment was declined.

Either way the scammer warns that if you don’t take immediate action your cloud storage account will be deleted and you’ll lose all your files. [Read more…]

Scam alert: Beware this dangerous ‘DocuSign’ email scam

Posted on April 22, 2025

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As you probably know by now, scammers love using the Internet to perpetrate frauds and trick innocent people into doing things that are harmful to their devices and/or their financial lives.

Some scams come and go, but others seem to hang around forever while occasionally changing up the tricks they use from time to time to keep us all off guard.

One such persistent scam targets folks who use the popular DocuSign “online agreement” service.

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Scam alert: Beware this very dangerous email scam

Posted on April 11, 2025

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As you probably know, the scammers of the world are getting sneakier by the day.

One of the latest scams that’s making the rounds right now consists of a mostly blank email with a line stating some variation of the following:

“If you can’t see the images below, click here.“

In all the scam emails the words “click here” will be hyperlinked to a malicious web page.

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