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By now you surely know there are multiple scams making the rounds on social media at any given time.
That’s just a sad fact of life in this Internet era.
There’s a very dangerous scam that’s been popping up on Facebook at times for years, and unfortunately it’s making the rounds again right now.
This scam works something like this: [Read more…]
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Like most everyone else, you probably receive SPAM and phishing emails all the time.
And despite the existence of the Can-Spam act, this scourge of the Internet seems to actually be getting worse instead of better.
If you ever happen to accidentally open one of these obnoxious messages you might be tempted to click the “Unsubscribe” link located near the bottom of the message to have your email address removed from their mailing list.
Whatever you do, don’t click that link! Read on to find out why… [Read more…]
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By now you probably know better than to click or tap on links in emails because that’s one of the easiest ways to infect your device with a virus.
After all, once you click a link and visit an infected website, the damage is done.
Well, the same thing is now happening on smartphones as well, only the malware is being spread via text messages. [Read more…]
I often write about the need to carefully evaluate the search results you are given in response to your web searches.
In short, you can’t blindly trust what pops up when you search for something, especially if your query was financial in nature.
This recent news report shines a bright spotlight on this danger.
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Well, the Facebook scammers are at it again (as if they ever stop).
This time they’re out to take control of your Facebook account by tricking you into helping them change the password so they can log in to it.
I’ve received several requests for help from readers who had their accounts hijacked via this scam, and unfortunately there was nothing I could do to help in most of those situations.
As usual, there are several variations of this scam, but most of them go something like this: [Read more…]