Archive for the ‘Scam Warnings’ Category:
Written on April 12th, 2010 by Trishno shouts
I was making the rounds of my blogs and clicked on this one and my IE browser froze and stopped working. The same happened 3 times so I swapped over to Firefox. When the home page appeared so did a McAfee security warning which told me that it had detected and deleted the JS/Wonka trojan.
Written on June 26th, 2009 by Trishno shouts
An article warning of scams and how to identify scams.
Written on June 26th, 2009 by Trishno shouts
I don’t know who and I don’t know how, but I’ve inherited millions – or have I?
Written on June 26th, 2009 by Trishno shouts
Email scams are instantly recognisable to those of us who are not new to the internet and this one sent by Dhr D. Van. Mark is quite typical.
Written on June 25th, 2009 by Trishno shouts
If your computer warns you that it has worm.win32.netsky it may really be a fraudulent fake anti-spyware program trying to bully you into buy spyware remover software.
Written on June 25th, 2009 by Trishno shouts
Scam emails seem to be multiplying. Here is a copy of one and my thoughts on it.
Written on June 25th, 2009 by Trishno shouts
Competition and lottery scams have been around a long time. There has been lots of publicity yet still many people fall for the scams making it worthwhile for the perpetrators. Following you will find a copy of an email that I received recently and my view of it.