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Scam alert: Beware this dangerous ‘DocuSign’ email scam

Posted on April 22, 2025

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As you probably know by now, scammers love using the Internet to perpetrate frauds and trick innocent people into doing things that are harmful to their devices and/or their financial lives.

Some scams come and go, but others seem to hang around forever while occasionally changing up the tricks they use from time to time to keep us all off guard.

One such persistent scam targets folks who use the popular DocuSign “online agreement” service.

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Scam alert: Beware this dangerous ‘Mother’s Day’ coupon scam

Posted on April 16, 2025

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Well, the scammers never seem to take a break on Facebook, and right now they’re striking extra hard while everyone’s hunkered down at home and spending a lot of time on the Internet.

Scammers love to strike during special events and holidays because they know that many of us have our guard down during those times.

Every year at this time the insidious “Lowe’s Mother’s Day Coupon Scam” starts making the rounds again, and right on schedule it’s back for 2025. This is how the scam works: [Read more…]

Scam alert: Beware the dangerous ‘Expiring Apple ID’ phishing scam

Posted on April 3, 2025

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Well, another very insidious phishing scam is making the rounds again.

This one won’t show up in your Facebook Newsfeed or in an email.

Instead, you’ll receive it in an SMS text message, and if you fall for the bait it could end up costing you dearly.

The scam works like this…

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How to spot (and avoid) fraudulent phishing emails

Posted on March 13, 2025

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It seems that fraudsters are all over the Internet these days, and many of them spam us with messages that turn up in our email inboxes on a daily basis.

And they’re pretty good at producing some rather legitimate-looking, and fairly convincing messages too.

If you’ve been using the Internet for any length of time, you’ve no doubt seen a bunch of them.

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Reminder: Why you should never ‘Unsubscribe’ from SPAM emails

Posted on January 13, 2025

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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…]