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The email scam I’m covering today led off with a killer summary. “Your energy bill might be cancelled in July.” The line caught my eye right away. It was obvious. This energy bill email scam was going to be something special…at least from the standpoint of entertainment value. The energy bill email scam The email […]
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Have you ever needed help fixing a computer problem? Maybe you thought your machine had contracted a virus or malware. Or, it had become sluggish. What if you just need someone who knows what they’re doing to walk you through how to resolve an issue. Computer security popup ads have been making these claims for years. […]
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We’re most vulnerable when we’re not paying attention or when coincidence catches us off guard. This would have been an easy scam to fall for had I not been paying attention. First off, we’re doing business with Hawai‘i Life, so it wasn’t unusual to receive an email from them. Second, everything in the email was […]
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One of my beta readers, Celeste G., forwarded news about an article in the New York Post concerning a Craigslist and PayPal email scam. She had two reasons for writing. First, she said the article didn’t make it completely clear how the scam worked. Second, she thought I might be interested in writing about it. […]
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I have to admit, I didn’t pay much attention when the first email advertising new cars from a local Ford dealer came in. Never have bought a Ford. Don’t need one today. When the second email about new cars for sale arrived—this one from a local Mercedes-Benz dealer—I was irritated. How did I get on […]
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“You sent a payment of…” Have you received this email from PayPal for an eBay purchase you didn’t make? I did. And it stopped me for a few minutes because I don’t shop on Ebay. And I typically don’t send money via PayPal. Normally, I would mark the PayPal eBay email as spam and trash […]
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Just when you thought life couldn’t get any worse for the poor ATM, the bad guys have come up with a nifty new tool—the “deep-insert skimmer.” Similar to the black boxes used by thieves for ATM theft, the deep-insert skimmer cannot be seen by the naked eye. Is it time to say, “Bye, bye, ATM?” […]
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Let’s file this week’s scam tip under the “how low can you go?” category. This is another phishing scam. And it’s focused on those filing a disability claim. It’s always bothered me how scammers will go after people when they’re in dire straits, but such is the nature of their business. Here’s what the phishermen […]
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Google wants to hire me! And they’ll pay me $90k a year! I’ll bet you’ve seen this email, too. So, how do you sign up? The answer is, by giving away all of your personal information to a scammer who doesn’t care where you live, what you do now, or what skills you have. No, […]
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Miracle weight loss emails dominate our email inboxes every single day. Whether the email touts a product endorsed by Dr. Oz, includes a testimonial, or vivid before-and-after photos, they all have one thing in common—they’re a scam. Dr. Oz miracle weight loss I never wanted my messages to be hijacked by marketers on the […]
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Sunset at the harbor in Honolulu At the end of a long hard day of doing not much, it was nice to take a walk along the harbor in Honolulu. Sunset was, as usual, fabulous. What a great time of day. Taken during our 2017 trip to Left Coast Crime in Honolulu. More from the […]
