Yahoo Email Phishing Scam – Account Exceeded Limit.

Posted on 20th January 20138th February 2017 by Michelle Harris

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 personal information, such as username, password and even worse credit card details. These scams don’t always come via Email it can be on instant messages or private messages on various networks. Once you give this information, they have control over your account.

How can we tell its an email scam

As luck would have it – I knew instantly that this was fake basically because I rarely use this account and never save anything there, I’ve probably used 30kb not 30gb; Another tell-tale sign is that cyber criminals almost never put your name its usually to the account user, this is because the same email has been sent to hundreds of other people. Often the spelling is bad and its usually a threat to scare you into acting right away.

You can easily see that the email is not from Yahoo when you click to upgrade – you will notice that URL in the address bar its not Yahoo but a website called Livresetsen.be this is where you will be sending the information when you click the link.

Sometimes this URL will be changed to something that looks real. It could be that the link itself could contain malicious software, you may be able to hover your curser over this link to reveal the real one.

The best thing to do if you get anything at all asking for your password via email is first Google it, if you can’t find anything about the scam, then contact company that you believe it is – via their numbers/emails on their website and ask them directly.

What to do if you have been phished

from the Yahoo Security page……

Help! I think I’ve been phished!

If you think you’ve given confidential personal information to a phishing site, then follow these guidelines to help prevent your information from being used illegally by fraudsters. Do not delay — fraudsters can move quickly to take over your account and do substantial damage.

I think my Yahoo! ID was phished!

If you think you entered your Yahoo! ID and password at a phishing site, then follow these steps:

Change your Yahoo! password immediately. Here’s how:
1. Type profiles.yahoo.com in your browser’s Address bar.
2. Sign into Yahoo!.
3. Click on the Account Info tab.
4. Enter your current password.
5. On the Account Info page, click the Change Password link near the top of the page and follow the instructions.
If your password no longer works, tell us so we can start the account recovery process.
On the Account Info page, verify the rest of your account information; be sure any contact phone numbers or secondary email addresses are correct.
On the Account Info page, go to “Update password-reset info” and change your questions and answers.
Report the phishing email or web site that tricked you!

Do not give out your email or password easily – it might not just be an email phishing scam, watch out for anything that asks for personal information – For instance: It could be a popup on your PC that says you have viruses and need to scan your PC thats when they say its going to cost you to remove it. Links in Pop ups to me are the same as Auto DM’s in twitter with links, avoid like the plague. Do not click.

Hope this helps – be careful out there 🙂

Email scam Alert for Lloyds TSB Bank

Posted on 16th July 20128th February 2017 by Michelle Harris

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 your bank details is in that case obviously a bogus link that takes you to a hackers site.

Do not click the link in the email, see below what you should do.

Lloyds TSB say

Protect yourself from malicious attempts to obtain your sensitive information. If you receive a suspicious email please do not respond to it but forward it to our dedicated team at emailscams@lloydstsb.co.uk.

We will NEVER send you an email, text message or a link direct to a website asking you to enter your Internet Banking or card details.
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Remember:

We will NEVER direct you to the log on page from an email
We will ONLY ask you for your user ID, password and 3 characters from your memorable information.

Contact us

If you receive an email or text message that asks for your personal information, do not click on any link or provide any Internet Banking or telephone banking log on details. Please forward suspicious emails or details of text messages that ask for your personal information to emailscams@lloydstsb.co.uk and then delete it from your inbox without responding. This information will be used to help reduce fraud online.

If you think you may have fallen victim to Phishing or any other type of online fraud, please call us as soon as possible on 0845 3000 116 or +44 20 7649 9437 . Offshore customers, or those with hearing and speech impairments should visit our Report it page for further information.

Hope this helps.

Hotmail Account Alert Phishing Scam #windowslive

Posted on 1st July 20128th February 2017 by Michelle Harris

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 trustworthy entity in an electronic communication. Communications purporting to be from popular social web sites, auction sites, online payment processors or IT administrators are commonly used to lure the unsuspecting public. Phishing emails may contain links to websites that are infected with malware

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phishing

The email seemingly from Windows Live ( Anti-spam team) states..

We are sending this e-mail to inform you that your e-mail account has excedeed it’s sending and receving limit in the last 7 days. Due to this, we have to suspend your account in order to prevent unwanted bots and spyware using our customer’s accounts.

The link is obviously bogus and I won’t post it here.

It looks official enough but the first thing that alerts me is – The spelling mistakes! Really, would Microsoft send out emails with spelling mistakes, but mostly because I don’t use this account! I do receive an few odd emails but I never send from it, so for me to have exceeded a limit over the last seven days would be pretty crazy.

Also not only would Microsoft not email you, unless you had emailed them for support or something, they wouldn’t be suspending your account and they certainly wouldn’t use a dodgy email address to send it from like this one.

Please do not click this link, this will allow the hacker to take over your account. If you get anything like this regarding any social media sites, bank accounts or such like with a link on, never click the link, go through to your account the normal way and ask them if they have emailed you or search for the answer.

I have now had a 2nd Email from a different email address, this is just to scare you into clicking the link.

The word phishing comes from the word fishing because it is a bait to get you to bite by clicking the malicious link.

Someone asked me this in the comments so I am putting it here

I clicked the link, what do I do now?

If you can change your password, do it right away – and check that no emails have gone out from your account – if some have, send an email to inform your friends that the email fake. you were hacked but you are fixing it.

Then do a full system scan, just to be sure.

Be Safe.

Where are my DM’s #Twitter

Posted on 20th May 20128th February 2017 by Michelle Harris

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 appear for some time after the email delivery.

These are bugs, and our engineers are hard at work to solve these issues. Follow @support for updates!

Also while we are talking about Twitter, there is another Phishing Scam going around that says Twitter is going to charge do not click this. Its similar to twitter scams where one t says, Is this picture about you, and Is this blog about you – these are still spreading like viruses after more than 6 months because people keep clicking them.

So if you do ever get your DM’s back – do not click suspicious links, it may look like its come from your friend but ask them first if they have sent you a link, as they won’t even know if its a Phishing scam.

Hope this helps

Twitter News – Activity Arrives and A Hack Attack

Posted on 24th August 20118th February 2017 by Michelle Harris

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 it. One thing maybe to remember is that everything you do now, show’s up in picture form for everyone to see, well maybe not EVERYTHING 🙂

Some people are loving these new changes in Twitter, but some say its ruining what we once had, simplicity – I do have to agree. I wonder what your view is, do you like these changes from the #oldtwitter to the new?

In other news……

New Phishing Attack

There is another new Phising attack coming to your DM folder it says

Someone is posting a pic of you all over twitter

This is one of those that is intending to get your account details and then repost it to everyone in your address book as as DM – if you click on it and have Google Chrome, which you should have by now. Very similar to the Is this your in this picture – photo scam.

Chrome says this …. I’m glad it worked as I wanted to show you this page. Although you cannot see the link on the DM it says that itwitter.com has been reported as a phishing site.

We should be used to these by now, and should avoid clicking like the plague, I almost reported this person for spam as it looked that way but he obviously just got caught.

All I can say is don’t click it – it just keeps it going. And change your password and tell people not to click, if you have

Hope this helps

Warning! Twitter Scam – Is this blog about you?

Posted on 16th July 20118th February 2017 by Michelle Harris

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 as you wonder – ooh am I featured in a blog?

If you have clicked on this, you need to change your password immediately and try to warn the people that you have DM’d not to click the link. I sent a message to the above account to tell this this is happening, as that is the other problem, you don’t actually realise right away that it is happening.

Update – I’ve also received the “This gotta be you in this picture” scam today …

He realised soon enough and sent out this message to say he was hacked

Same as above, change password!

Hope this helps.

Is this you in this picture ? Twitter Phishing scam!

Posted on 9th July 20118th February 2017 by Michelle Harris

This is an old MSN scam which has now reached Twitter – the MSN scam was trying to get your credit card details and any other personal details, so I’m a bit wary of this one on Twitter.

Its spreading fast as you can see from these Tweets …..

Its coming through as a DM from one of your friends, which makes you think its real – but its not of course. When you click it, it Dm’s your friends.

Don’t click

If you have then check your approved applications and remove anything dodgy looking – change your password and do a scan to be on the safe side.

I will let you know more, when I find out more information.

In the meantime, better to be safe than sorry and do the above.

Hope this helps

Twitter Viagra scam DM spreading fast

Posted on 24th June 20118th February 2017 by Michelle Harris

There is a new Phishing scam or spam DM spreading quickly around Twitter at the moment, seemingly a direct message that is sent from your friend says…… (or similar)

“I got huge discounts on Viagra, cialis and more, no prescription needed.”

This is what twitter are saying ……..

I didn’t click the link myself so I’m not sure where the link takes you, although hopefully Google chrome would have warned me as it is pretty secure.

However…….

Please don’t click it, as it will be DM’ed to many of your followers – and this will keep it alive!

I personally, never click any links that are DM’d to me, without knowing about it first. They are either spam or self promotions, both of which should not be in my DM box. If there is something to say @ me – If I do get something I am not sure of – I ask the sender if they meant to send it, on this occasion I asked as a joke as why would someone send me something about Viagra 🙂

If you have clicked this and sent out DM’s – I suggest changing your passwords and quickly explain to your followers to stop them unfollowing you for spam.

Please share this post – so we can stop this.

I will post if there is any more information, thanks.

Hope this helps