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As you probably know by now, the scammers of the world are always coming up with new ways to separate innocent people from their hard-earned money.
Since the dawn of the World Wide Web, most phishing scams have been perpetrated via email, but that’s beginning to change.
While email is still the primary vehicle for delivering these types of scams, a relatively new generation of scams are now arriving in the form of SMS text messages.
Well, this old hoax is making the rounds on Facebook yet again.
Like most Facebook hoaxes, this one should be easy to recognize as such, but for whatever reason it’s being shared all over the place once again.
The actual wording of the hoax varies a bit, but it basically says Facebook is going to make all of your posts, comments, photos and messages public unless you copy and paste the fake scam warning to your Timeline.
Here is the text of the most popular version of the scam: [Read more…]
I frequently receive requests for help from people who have been swindled out of large sums of cash by people they met on the Internet.
Unfortunately, in the vast majority of those cases there’s really nothing I can do to help.
I received another of those sad requests just last night, and this one upset me even more than usual…
Do you have a home listed for sale or rent that’s currently vacant?
Or how about a home you inherited that’s setting empty while you try to decide what to do with it?
Or perhaps you have a parcel of undeveloped land that you purchased for an investment or that you inherited?
If so, there’s an insidious scam going around right now that could cost you thousands in cash, lost sales and property damage, or even the outright loss of your property.
An old, but dangerous scam that targets Apple customers recently started making the rounds once again.
As usual, there are several variations of the scam, but they all work something like this…
You receive a text message or social media IM stating that your Apple ID has been disabled due to an “unusual sign-in attempt” or some other pretext.
At first glance the message will appear to be legit, but if you look closer it’s usually easy to see that it’s a fake. [Read more…]