Another version of the Domain Name scam

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I can’t believe that in the last two days I have received this notice from two different clients. This has been going on for years and it seems that the scammers just change their name but mostly everything else stays the same. If you look back in my archives you will find this post from 2008 explaining the scam that was going on then. So now the scam is to send what appears to look like an invoice for your domain services. They make it look like they are providing backup DNS services even though they are doing no such thing! [...] Read more »

NYC Traffic Ticket Phishing Email

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I have written several times about phishing schemes that come to my email, I wrote about a PayPal scheme here and a Chase banking scheme here.   Today I received an email with the subject: NYC Traffic Ticket N(ID- 077501138)   It had the following in the content of the email: So how do I know this is fake? First give away was it was sent to a bunch of email addresses. If the DMV or NYC or NYS really sent tickets via email (THEY DON’T) I would think they would send it directly to me. Not only that where [...] Read more »

Phishing, Fake, Spoof emails now affecting Payal?

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Photo by: Ricky David First it was J.P. Morgan Chase then it was eBay and now Paypal! When is it going to stop? Do these phishing emails really work? Do people actually click on a link that look like this: http://rolexwatches2.com/images/.www.paypal.com/ If you would consider clicking on a link like that can you tell me why? Why would you think that a domain that starts with http://rolexwatches2.com has anything to do with Paypal? Here is the email I received today and have since forwarded it on to Paypal. (Click image to enlarge) If you receive one of these phishing emails [...] Read more »

FDA possibly killing asthmatics?

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UPDATE 1/26/2009 - Visit: iPetitions.com, savecfcinhalers.org - – - – - – - – - - In case you didn’t know as of December 31, 2008 you can no longer buy any prescription inhalers that use CFCs to eject the medicine. The FDA is also expected to phase out the over the counter (OTC) asthma medicine that uses CFC’s as well. What does this mean? No more rescue inhalers will be sold over the counter like Primatene Mist unless they change their ejection method to not use CFCs. What the heck? CFCs in my inhaler are that much of a [...] Read more »

Another Microsoft Internet Explorer Exploit!

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Microsoft has released a patch on Wednesday to fix an exploit that could allow remote access to your PC. If you use Internet Explorer 7 you MUST apply the patch when it is available. You can read about the exploit here and here and you can read about the actual flaw on Microsoft’s website here. Why are you still using IE anyway, Firefox can do whatever IE can and more. If you like living on the bleeding edge why not try Google’s new browser Chrome? It is lightning fast and removes all the junk from your screen except for the [...] Read more »