I have not received a chain email for some time, and then one arrived this morning. It contained a warning was to watch out for emails form a person called SIMON ASHTON ( SIMON25@HOTMAIL.CO.UK).
A quick Google for ‘Simon25’ revealed that this particular hoax had been circulating for well … Read the the full post
BE Warned! It appears that the hoaxers are trying a different approach.
I have just had an email purporting to come from Mozilla Firefox and headed “New UpdateAvailable”. They have never contacted me before, and I was not aware of giving them my email address.
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I had a call yesterday from “Windows Service Centre” from a chap with an almost incomprehensible Asian accent. This was not their first call to me and I that they were an outfit similar to “Quick Resolve”. I allowed the conversation to continue … Read the the full post
The spammers are active again; this time it is the old Parcel Delivery one which first cropped up about 18 months ago. I also referred to them in an earlier post
I have had 2 in recent days; the first purported to come from UPS and took the form:
This is an example of the ‘Phone Scam’ mentioned in another post. Some friends of mine fell for the convincing alert to a problem with their PC, and handed over some money. Why do the banks continue to forward money to these people?
This is a variation on the ‘Phishing email’. Someone phone up out of the blue and says something along the lines of “I believe that you have a problem with your computer?” My wife recently took a call from someone purporting to be from “Windows Security”.
Then a couple of … Read the the full post
The other day the following arrived in my inbox; It was identified by Mailwasher as Spam – which it obviously was. What intrigued me is that unlike most ‘phishing’ emails, they didn’t claim to be from such and such a bank
Dear Customer,
This e-mail was send by coras.it to … Read the the full post
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