Phishing emails can easily catch you unawares A few days ago, towards end of the working day, I checked my email and found a message from my internet provider. It said that I needed to log in to my account in order to upgrade the options on my account. I was a bit puzzled about …
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Detecting Scam and Phishing Emails
From time to time, I get a phone call from one of my computer support clients asking whether an email they have received is genuine or a scam (eg a phishing email). Quite often, they will forward the message to me for my comments Checking back on nearly seven years of blog posts, I’m surprised …
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Spear Phishing
Phishing for your information (and money) is becoming more sophisticated We’ve all received phishing emails that pretend they are from trusted sources such as banks. They want us to hand over information that will let them steal money from us. And who among us hasn’t made their fortune by partaking of a Nigerian businessman’s plan …
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