Account Exceeded Limit A Yahoo email phishing scam is being sent to our in-boxes again. The email looks like it comes from Yahoo admin and informs you that you need to upgrade your account as you have exceeded your limit of 30GB or you will not be able to send or receive email. This is a phishing scam. What is a phishing email We have seen many of these on social networks lately – there have been phishing scams on Twitter, Hotmail, Facebook, and many more, and the object of the hackers game is to fool you into giving them your […]
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Email scam Alert for Lloyds TSB Bank
Another old fraud scam has been found in my inbox for Lloyds TSB bank. Lloyds TSB was targeted a few years ago with this bogus scam and it looks like the scammers are trying again to extract personal bank details with this phishing email which gives you 24hrs to respond. Phishing email supposedly from Lloyds TSB The fake email says This e-mail has been sent to inform you that your account will be deactivated within the next 24 hours due to several unsuccessful login attemps on your account. To prevent this to happen please login securely to our activation link below today and verify your information: Firstly it doesn’t use my name it just says dear – and my email address, secondly I don’t have an account at the Lloyds TSB bank. The link where you are supposed to verify […]
Continue readingHotmail Account Alert Phishing Scam #windowslive
HOTMAIL ALERT I can’t believe this old fake phishing scam to steal your hotmail account is still being sent – its a variation of a spam email from years ago – but this has better English apart from a few spelling mistakes – and is possibly going to catch more people out. We’ve seen these types of phishing scams on Twitter and Facebook a lot lately but none on Hotmail for a while. As far as I know. What is phishing. Phishing is attempting to acquire information (and sometimes, indirectly, money) such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details by masquerading as a […]
Continue readingWhere are my DM’s #Twitter
There have been an increasing amount of complaints regarding missing dm’s, lost messages, direct messages on Twitter recently and there are likely to be a few more in the next few days. Twitter has deleted some users DM’s – Direct Messages. Its okay, its just a twitter bug, they do know about it …. Twitter Support says Bug Alert: Some users are currently experiencing an issue with direct messages disappearing, without the sender or receiver deleting them from their inbox. Some users may experience a delay in DM delivery. A notification may arrive to your email inbox, but the DM won’t […]
Continue readingTwitter News – Activity Arrives and A Hack Attack
Twitter news… You may have heard that Twitter has launched another change on Twitter.com; I’ll keep this brief as you will see for yourself soon enough. Activity This shows favorites, follows, retweets, and more by people that you follow – this is next to @mentions, which now has your @name and retweets has gone – this is being rolled out slowly as not everyone has it yet. I’m not sure about the usefulness of this yet, it makes it harder to see your retweets – but at least it is on another page and you have to click to see […]
Continue readingWarning! Twitter Scam – Is this blog about you?
There is another Phishing scam going around Twitter. This is similar to the “Is this you in this picture” and “Is this you in this video” You get a DM asking Is this blog about you with a link – here is the one I revived today. People are saying that when you click the link it takes you to a twitter log in page, it then takes over your account and sends out DM’s to your friends from your twitter account. Think before you click! The danger is that these DM’s are from friends and you don’t think about it when you click […]
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