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What ARE they up to now?
I got an email today that looks like the archetypal phishing spam – a message from the Federal Reserve with a warning about a ‘large scale phishing attack’ and threats about restrictions being placed on wire transfers through March – a link at the bottom has a domain name that could just possibly be real; […]
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Cyber Security Tip: Safeguarding Your Data
Cyber Security Tip ST06-008 Safeguarding Your Data When there are multiple people using your computer and/or you store sensitive personal and work-related data on your computer, it is especially important to take extra security precautions. Why isn’t “more” better? Maybe there is an extra software program included with a program you bought. Or perhaps you […]
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Scamdex moves web hosts again and is getting better at it!
Well, the debate is over – I’m not going to host Scamdex at home, I’m just going to rent space on a collegue’s server over at NewsBlaze.com. So I can continue to use Cpanel/WHM to administer my other domains without messing anything up too much. Move went quite well for Scamdex – some additional Apache […]
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… the Pipes, the Pipes are calling…. here’s the ScamPipe!
Here’s a little utility I knocked together using Yahoo’s Pipes (http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/). It allows you to aggregate, sort and filter feeds from various sources to make one combined info thingy. [ad] http://pipes.yahoo.com/scamdex/scampipe Let me know what you think – I can add a couple of extra data feeds in, let me know if you have some […]
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Free Email Services – they can be useful!
Sooooo I went to the ZZN.com website, a free email service provider – it’s been around for years and does not seem to be going anywhere soon – and created a SCAMDEX.ZZN.COM email service – so you can go there and get a mystoopidname@scamdex.zzn.com email address to use and abuse as you wish. Great if […]
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Round-up of Internet Scams in the News
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Mystery Shopper Scam – How and Why it works
Here’s a little email I receive quite often – I assumed these were scams, but never got round to ionvestigating them until now. from a Javier Hines [otakvenezi@webvis.net] email address, but wants replies to Michael Bernard [michael.bernard55@gmail.com]. Irvine, CA 92604-3703 Thank you for your interest in the Mystery Shopper position. Our company conducts surveys and […]
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Been Scammed on CraigsList? – New Service from Scamdex
Back in 2008, Scamdex found a blog devoted to outing the huge population of scammers to whom Craigslist is a God-given opportunity to rip off people the world over. The Blog, Exposing scam artists who use Craigslist is still here but hasn’t been updated for a while, which is a shame. Scamdex’s Scam Tip Off […]