Tech Tips, Tricks and Tutorials
Scams abound on Facebook, and one of the most common types of scams claim that companies will give everyone who “Likes” and/or “Shares” a post a valuable freebie.
There’s a new (and very dangerous) scam making the rounds right now involving the Kroger grocery store chain.
On Sunday, March 15, a large number of text messages were apparently sent out from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announcing a nationwide quarantine due to the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic.
The National Security Council (NSC) quickly posted a tweet (embedded below) explaining that all those text messages were fake. [Read more…]
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…]
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 wording of the fraudulent text messages varies a bit, but the scam always works something like this: [Read more…]
As you surely know by now, scams are everywhere on the Internet these days.
Unfortunately, many of the most insidious scams pose as ways to help people who truly are deserving of our help.
One of the latest scams to rear its ugly head targets folks who have a desire to do something to help veterans who have been injured in combat.
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