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Fake shipping notifications are nothing new. We’ll all seen them show up in our email. A couple of years ago when these first started showing up, these innovative scams were…
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On March 26, toyokeizai.net revealed a new mystery surrounding the Mt. Gox Bitcoin exchange bankruptcy. The article revealed that 530,000 bitcoins had been withdrawn…
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Oddly enough, just when we thought phone scams might be going the way of eight-track tapes, they are making a comeback. Phone scam popularity faded for a while because email…
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Smartphone theft is reaching epidemic proportions. A Consumer Reports survey found that 1.6 million Americans had their smartphones stolen in 2012 alone, and in big cities…
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This past week I saw on Facebook where one of my friends had received a call that supposedly was from a company called “TechResolvers.” The caller claimed…
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On Monday, Mar. 10, the document, McAfee Labs Threat Report: Fourth Quarter 2013, was released. Included in that report was a listing of the retailers, such as Target, who were…
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I have to admit I know very little about Bitcoin. I do know it’s a digital currency and you can use it to buy stuff from others who accept it (more retailers are doing that now). Thanks to the February 2014 meltdown of…
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On Mar. 5, the Federal Trade Commission announced that it had brought or resolved nine cases against debt collection agencies and companies in 2013…
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Passwords are a pain, right? Where we once got by with a single easy-to-remember password for everything, we now need separate, complex passwords for each website, social network…
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The Eviction Notice Scam begins with an email containing a subject heading similar to “Eviction Notice.” The scam is targeted at homeowners, but could easily be misconstrued by those who rent. Here’s one example of the text in the email…
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Binding books the old way When I heard there was a book bindery in Russell, I was excited. As a writer, I was very interested in how books were made back before the days of big presses. Our trip to the bindery was not a disappointment. They gave us a great tour of the bindery […]
