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Your email program just made a mistake and let an email you suspect may be spam through to your inbox. How do you decide what to do? Click that link?
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The “Cable Service” email comes in many varieties. The hook used in the email urges you to compare cable rates to obtain the best deal. With cable rates as high as they are…
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AHooked on credits technology continues to advance, phishing scams are more prevalent than ever before. With everyone looking to simplify as much as possible, these scams are often disguised as a great way…
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Reader Celeste G. recently needed help upgrading an Apple device. She wrote, “I couldn’t get into my contacts list because they were in my device and it was closed…
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The 12 Scams of Christmas are enough to drive a Santa to drink. With everything from viruses and malware being distributed via email and websites to good old fashioned liars and…
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What’s the most risky gift you can give during the holidays? If you chose the cell phone, you’d be correct. According to GetSafeOnline.org, a consumer awareness group in the UK, there are several items that are most-often used to scam…
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Online dating scams are one of the easiest cons to fall for. Recently, a friend of mine named Frank sent me copies of emails he’d exchanged with someone who called “herself” Teri. Thank goodness Frank recognized…
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Package delivery email scams run in cycles. Watch for fake shipping notifications during the holidays because that’s when this email scam is at its highest level of …
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On November 19 at 8:00 pm, EST (5:00 pm, PST), I’ll be talking about the 12 Scams of Christmas with Authors on the Air host Pam Stack. This promises to be a fun time and…
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One of the things about covering the subject of scams and cons is that everyone has at least one story of how they were almost taken. Immediately after last week’s newsletter, The Snitch…
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We’d taken a Hop-on/Hop-off tour that took us to the Fukuoka Garden, a Japanese Garden for Auckland’s, and Lakeside Park, a massive park that surrounds a lake. While both places involve a central body of water surrounded by landscaped grounds, they couldn’t be more different.
