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Scam alert: Beware fake package delivery notices that arrive in your email

Posted on September 28, 2022

If you do much shopping online you’re probably used to receiving emails letting you know that your orders have been shipped.

Many Internet retailers send out these emails as a courtesy to their customers. And they are indeed handy, especially when they contain the tracking number for an order you’ve placed.

Unfortunately, hackers and scammers are now sending out fake package delivery notices that could result in your login credentials for a retailer’s website being stolen and/or malware being downloaded onto your computer.

The scam typically works something like this:  [Read more…]

How to quickly identify scam emails

Posted on July 11, 2022

As you probably know, scammers and hackers have been using fraudulent emails to practice their illicit trade ever since the invention of email itself.

Unfortunately, government regulations and cyber-security measures have done little to prevent malicious emails from making their way into our inboxes.

Even worse, many scammers and hackers are now very good at creating fake emails that are difficult to distinguish from the real emails we receive from banks, PayPal and other online services on a daily basis.

[Read more…]

Scam alert: Beware the dangerous ‘Fake Norton Invoice’ scam

Posted on May 22, 2022

Several people have forwarded what appear to be email invoices for Norton products and services they supposedly ordered, but didn’t.

As you can probably guess, each and every one of those emails have turned out to be scams.

Truth be told, this scam has been making the rounds off and on for several years now, and not always with Norton as the company mentioned. [Read more…]

Beware the fake ‘Google’ email that’s currently making the rounds

Posted on May 14, 2014

scamAnother day, another scam. This one is perpetrated via an email that claims to be from Google – but it isn’t.

The subject line of the scam email varies, but it usually is something like “Lookout Notice” or “Mail Notice“. If you happen to accidentally open the email, you’ll see text similar to this:  [Read more…]




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