I’ve been attracting a few mysterious emails lately, and now I don’t seem to be able to stop them from wandering over…
Tag: scam
“The Rock is Dead” Fast & Furious 7 Scam In Circulation
Dwayne Johnson – AKA The Rock – is currently being targeted by a rather grim Facebook scam doing the rounds, originating from…
World Cup 2014 Cash Prize & Tickets Email is a 419 Scam
From the spam traps: a World Cup 2014 419 missive, with a wonderfully enlightening subject line: “gkxzhlfgjs”. It reads: Dear Email…
Phishers Bypass Steam Guard Protection
I was digging through some recent Steam related phish pages, and came across something I haven’t seen before: a new way…
Netflix-themed tech support scam comes back with more copycats
A few weeks ago we blogged about this Netflix phishing scam combined with fake tech support that was extorting private information…
Apple ID Phish Goes Horribly Wrong
Here’s a really weird Apple phish, which seems to want to limit the amount of people who actually fall for it…
“Invitation to the Great Illuminati” Spam Mail
For a moment, I thought I’d woken up in a Dan Brown novel, but it turns out that spam can be…
There’s Evidence of Mermaids Inside Sharks. No, really.
More often than not, we yield to that innate curiosity in us, regardless of whether it’s for our own good or…
Scammer Network Recruits Penniless Gamer Army
When I was a teenager, you based your social status on the clothes you wore , the music you listened to…
This Origin Phish Isn’t Very Sporting
We’ve observed a Twitter feed claiming to be a support channel for all things EA Sport. What tends to happen is…