Watch Out For Fake Email Revalidation Messages

Thursday, 3 May 2012 | Jason Slater

A phishing scheme seems to have re-emerged recently informing that a mailbox needs to be revalidated to free space for incoming emails:

You Will Not Be Able To Receive New Mails Until You Re-Validate your mailbox to create space for … Read More

Scam: Facebook ePrivacy Application Scam

Tuesday, 30 November 2010 | Jason Slater

A number of internet sites are warning users of the popular social networking service Facebook about a fake application which is scamming them by offering promises of revealing who views their profile, tens of thousands of users have been … Read More

Watch Out For Scam LinkedIn Email Messages

Friday, 24 September 2010 | Jason Slater

It has been a little while but it looks like the popular business networking service, LinkedIn, has become the latest service to be hit by scammers and phishers again.

You may receive an email saying there are “Invitation … Read More

Watch Out For Barclays Branded Email Scams

Thursday, 11 March 2010 | Jason Slater

After the recent warning about DHL branded electronic mail scams (see Watch Out For The DHL Branded Email Scams), it seems Barclays is under fire from scammers. I received this communication recently – alleging it was from Barclays – but … Read More

Phishing Is On The Rise, What Is Phishing Anyway?

Saturday, 6 March 2010 | Jason Slater

How much personal information do we give away without even realising it?

We give information out all the time, often without realising it, and when we aren’t giving it away someone somewhere is probably losing it (but that’s another story!). … Read More