Tagged: Phishing
I’ve been seeing more and more of the “fake account warning” types of phishing emails lately, so am assuming others are as well. In the last week I’ve seen about ten of these types in my inbox: They use several … read more Scam: MaiIbox Storage Quota Limit
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 Disk Quota Notification Trick
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 Mailbox Quota Exceeded – Email Notification
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 Don’t be Fooled by Predatory PayPal Money Requests
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 Domain Listings – Website Listing Service
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 Your Domain Name is About To Expire!
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