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Scam alert: Beware this dangerous Covid-19 related email scam

Posted on December 1, 2020

As you surely know, there’s a dangerous virus making the rounds at the moment that has the entire world on edge.

This one is a real virus, not the digital kind that we’re all so familiar with these days.

This new “Coronavirus” has proven to spread quickly, and unfortunately it can be fatal in older patients and patients that have one or more underlying medical conditions.

Luckily, there are several things you can do to help prevent you and/or your loved ones from catching this virus: [Read more…]

Scam alert: Beware the ‘There’s an issue with your bank account’ text message scam.

Posted on November 27, 2020

As you probably know, scammers love using phishing emails to trick people into handing over their personal information and the login info for their online accounts.

Well, now they’re targeting potential victims via their cell phones too.

There’s a major text message phishing scam going on right now that’s snagging a lot of victims because it’s so easy to fall for.

The scammers are taking advantage of the fact that everyone is shopping at the moment, which of course results in a lot of unusual activity with their bank accounts.

The wording of the fraudulent text messages varies a bit, but the scam always works something like this: [Read more…]

Scam alert: Are you being spied on via your own webcam?

Posted on November 26, 2020

The ingenuity of hackers, thieves and other miscreants is unlimited it seems.

Every day they come up with new ways to scam, hack and break into computers in order to steal bank account and credit card numbers, photos, addresses, phone numbers and other pieces of sensitive information.

One of their most devious tricks is hacking into people’s computers and spying on them via their own webcams.

It’s happening a lot right now, and the vast majority of the victims are completely unaware that they’re being spied on until someone tells them that photos and/or videos of them are being spread all over the web. [Read more…]

Scam alert: Beware this dangerous fake Windows security alert

Posted on November 18, 2020

Well, it’s another day, and another dangerous scam is rearing its ugly head yet again.

It first appeared back in 2016 and quickly went into hiding. Now it’s back.

Unfortunately, this exploit is extremely easy to fall for because it looks almost exactly like the real Microsoft Windows error messages that we’re used to seeing from time to time.

Microsoft refers to this scam as Hicurdismos, and it works like this: [Read more…]