Scammers: They really need to try something new
February 16, 2010 by Robert Owen
Filed under Email Scam
Happy Tuesday !!! Unless you are not reading this on a Tuesday. In which case I would say, “ Happy ________day!!” So, this morning I opened up my e-mail and was treated to another … (*dum dum duuummm*) E-mail, scam attempt!!! (I feel like there should be lightning strikes and thunder when I say [...]
Scam attempts: Aren’t they cute?
November 5, 2009 by Robert Owen
Filed under Email Scam
Howdy all! I hope all is well for everyone this fine day!
Today, I got a fresh scan attempt in my e-mail. This one is interesting in that fact that it abandons the old “Hey, I’m in another country and my pop died and I need to funnel his money out…” route. This is attempting to [...]
Another Scam Attempt
October 12, 2009 by Robert Owen
Filed under Email Scam, Support
Hi all! Got another scam attempt in “Ye Ole” e-mail today. Now this one is pretty obvious but, I thought I would go ahead and post it in one more attempt to thwart the evil doings of these stinking Scammers. As always, if you get this e-mail (or anything that resembles this e-mail) delete it!! [...]
Email Scam: Taking the Military Tact
August 29, 2009 by Robert Owen
Filed under Email Scam
Oh You… Spammers!
It’s amazing the tactics that these Spammers go through to try and steal money from you. This one is attempting to target our Patriotic feelings by claiming to be coming from an America Soldier.
Hello friend,
My name is Scott Whittington, I am an American soldier, I am serving in the military with the 1st [...]
Uninstall Trend Micro Officescan without a Password
August 18, 2009 by Robert Owen
Filed under Software, Support, Virus
Ran into a slight problem today. I had to add a couple of older computers to a new Domain. Pretty easy to do normally but these workstations had a version of Trend Micro’s Officescan from their previous domain that needed to be removed so that the new version could be installed.
I couldn’t just uninstall the [...]
Got an iPhone? Better turn it off!
July 30, 2009 by Robert Owen
Filed under Apple, Virus
I just followed a tweet over to Mashable and read another article about the latest Apple security flaw. This time affecting the iPhone.
Cybersecurity researchers, Charlie Miller and Collin Mulliner, have identified a vulnerability in the iPhone OS that will allow an attacker to take control of the Phone via a SMS message. They have, supposedly, [...]
Spam: It is inventive.
June 22, 2009 by Robert Owen
Filed under Email Scam
Here is the latest Scam e-mail I’ve gotten. Don’t be fooled! This is a scam! This e-mail came to one of my e-mail accounts today from different senders and IP addresses but the machine sending names were the same. AND, the content was identical. It looks as though some has a mass-mailer sitting on their [...]