Scams

It has been a year since we last discussed fraudulent domain name registrar scams and we wanted to let people know that this scam continues unabated. In a nutshell, a message is sent to a publicly-visible email address listed on your website (sales, support, the CEO’s office, a public relations contact, et cetera) from a

Let’s consider the words of the song “I’ll Never Fall In Love” by Burt Bacharach and Hal David: “What do you get when you kiss a girl? You get enough germs to catch pneumonia After you do, she’ll never phone ya I’ll never fall in love again” OK, it’s confession time. I am single and

At least as of this writing if you paste the following line into a Google search you’ll find something interesting… “2004 Honda Accord EX-V6” $3000 site:craigslist.org An ad with the title and price shows up on almost every Craigslist site in the country and in virtually all cases the ad has been flagged for removal.

A little over a week ago we received a comment in response to David Harley’s blog post that read as follows: InterNations – the Network for Expatriates and Global Minds!   The Internations Management has decided to donate 10 Eurocents to Haiti for each text message!   Text “Haiti” to: +xxxxxxxxxxxx    Spread the Word!  

An Australian company claims to have launched a “virus-proof” computer. They even say “ A fast, easy to use, computer that never gets viruses, EVER !” and then on the same page say “In the rare event that you manage to catch a virus on your virus-proof computer, we will re-load both Zone 1 and

Oh brother, don’t tell me you fell for that one! All capital letters, lots of exclamation marks, the classic signs of bad news. Yeah, Halloween is around the corner and it is about time for the fake e-cards to make their rounds and the emails with links to “videos” that are not really videos at

Randy’s post yesterday about putting an “In Case of Emergency” (ICE) prefix in front of one or more entries in the contact list on your cellphone rang a particular bell (sorry!) with me. I first came across the idea around 2005, when the idea was first launched by the East Anglian Ambulance NHS Trust in

I forwarded this to myself from another account yesterday because I thought it was one of the laziest 419 scam messages I’d ever seen. From: British Tobacco Company Sent: 27 August 2009 19:46 Subject: Contact Mr Paul Adams Congratulations! Your e-mail ID was among the selected lucky winners of £1,000.000.00 GBP in our BRITISH TOBACCO