Tag Archives: Phishing
Disk Quota Notification Trick
One of the frustrating ways that hackers will try to get access to your website is through official looking notifications that alert you to an issue with your bandwidth or disk space for your hosting account. They hope to get ... READ MORE
October 26, 2021 in
Security, Spam Hall of Shame
Tags: Alert, Cpanel, Dangerous, Email, Hackers, Notice, Notification, Phishing, Spam, WHM
Mailbox Quota Exceeded – Email Notification
Here’s another example of an email you should always be suspicious of… the “hurry up your email is not working” message. Always be suspicious of messages that try to induce a bit of panic or fear – they do this ... READ MORE
July 22, 2021 in
Email, Security, Spam Hall of Shame
Tags: Dangerous, Email, Phishing, Spam
Don’t be Fooled by Predatory PayPal Money Requests
This isn’t a case of PayPal acting in a predatory manner, but of people taking advantage of one of the PayPal features where you can request money from anyone with an email address. While it’s great that there’s an easy ... READ MORE
April 16, 2020 in
Email, Security, Spam Hall of Shame
Tags: Money, PayPal, Phishing, Scam
Domain Listings – Website Listing Service
Some domain name related scams are easy to sniff out because if you do a Google search on their name, you find hundreds of pages showing examples of it with warnings to not send them money. This one is one ... READ MORE
March 9, 2019 in
Domain Names, Spam Hall of Shame
Tags: Phishing, Scam
Your Domain Name is About To Expire!
Domain name scams have been floating around as long as I can remember using email. I’ve posted the latest example of one below – if you see anything in your inbox that looks like this, you can safely ignore it! ... READ MORE
February 12, 2019 in
Articles, Domain Names, Email, SEO, Spam Hall of Shame
Tags: Phishing, Scam
