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Email scams are certainly nothing new, and there’s one making the rounds via email once again that causes tons of heartache every time it rears its ugly head.
And unfortunately, this one will trash your PC’s Windows installation if you fall for it.
As usual, the wording of the scam varies a bit, but this seems to be the version that most people are receiving: [Read more…]
Do you have a blog or other type of website that you’ve registered a domain name for?
If so, you need to know about a scam targeting domain owners that’s making the rounds yet again.
There are many ways for hackers and scammers to use your Facebook account to do malicious things, and make it appear that YOU are the culprit.
Most hackers simply find a way to break into your account and use it to publish SPAM posts and malicious links or spread malware to your friends via chat or instant messages.
Luckily, those hackers and scammers can be easily kicked off and locked out of your account by changing your password and enabling Two-Factor Authentication, but the truly devious miscreants can cause you all kinds of grief long after you’ve booted them off and locked them out of your account.
Yes, the really serious hackers can actually keep using your account to send SPAM and spread malware even without being able to log back in to your account.
And how they do that just might surprise you… [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.
Facebook is one of the most visited websites on the Internet, and with over two billion registered users it’s a virtual gold mine for scam artists out to make an easy buck.
There are countless scams being perpetrated on Facebook at all times, but every now and then a particularly insidious one pops up.
The purpose of this post is to warn you about a scam that has cleaned out the bank accounts of at least three of my own Facebook friends.