Fake email, scam email. Every day most of us probably get some. I am just going to start a list with samples of fake or scam emails in this article, and keep updating it as they come in. I have many email addresses, so I tend to get almost every scam or fake email going around at some point. I have seen everything, so when I get one I have not seen before, I want to warn people. I get so many bad, fake, scam emails, that I usually just delete them. Then I meet people who fall for them and it breaks my heart. Many people are too ashamed to tell anyone. They feel like fools. The best prevention is education and warning others. Share your knowledge if you know older people who still believe these emails are real […]
Fruit Spam using Instagram-Beware of links
Fruit spam? Fruit spam. If you’ve been noticing a strange rise of fruit-related pictures in your Instagram feed today, don’t worry. Your friends haven’t become (even more) obsessed with taking pictures of their healthy meals. Well, you might want to worry a wee bit, because the pictures might be linked to a fruit-themed spam attack that’s slowly making its way around the popular photo-sharing service. It’s unclear just how said spammers are getting a hold of users’ login credentials, but the attack results in a number of pictures of fruit – of all things – being posted to a person’s Instagram account. The text accompanying the pictures also includes a Bitly hyperlink – clicked on more than 35,000 times as of this article’s writing – that takes users to a fake BBC page promoting weight-loss coffee. “Ever seen this stuff? I guess […]
Email Scams, Fake Email, How to check it video
Fake Email, Email Scams, Email Viruses. Every day I get some very bad and dangerous email in my inbox. I run so many websites and have about 10 business email addresses, so between all of those I get quite the variety of fraudulent email. I have been teaching about this since 1999. I am going to start documenting on this post the email I get when I see a new scam, and help others avoid getting a virus, or getting scammed. There is so much of it, I am just going to start with today’s inbox. Did you know there is a way you can look at your questionable email safely? I made a video on how to do that. Best viewed in full screen mode. Update 6/13 Fake “you have been tagged notifications” from Facebook. Beware of fake Facebook […]
Did your web design company or person leave you hanging?
I often get new business from very frustrated website owners who have basically been abandoned by the person or company they hired to help then with their website. Sometimes their websites are half finished on a test site and the person seems to have mysteriously disappeared or stopped answering their phone. Other larger companies who offer website design, farm out the work, and slap the site up, but give no help or direction to the poor website owner. Often the reason for this is they are not actually doing the work themselves. I recently had a client who came to me with that very situation. Their website was up, but it had no keywords, tags, or any kind of the most basic SEO done. The client was more than willing to do it themselves, but the company insisted she […]
Better Business Bureau Fake Email Complaint Scam
If you have gotten any email like the one I posted below, it is FAKE.The thing is I am not sure what they are trying to do.When you are unsure of an email one thing you can always count on aremisspelled words, and bad grammar such as in this case when they say the complaint is in respect to their dealership???? What the heck does that even mean? “with respect to their dealership with you.” So I looked up the domain which is showing on the bogus link amazonandbeyond.com and it is listed below. No one answers that phone number of course.Also it looks like whoever bought it, added the privacy service. Here is the offical notice about the scam from the BBB, Better Business Bureau. If you know what exactly the scammers are trying to do please leave it […]