LinkedIn is a professional social networking website with over 200 million members, its a great place to manage your professional identity and to engage with people on a professional level. So why would you want to how to remove a contact from LinkedIn? People are usually careful about who they connect with on LinkedIn as its not the same as other networks it is usually for work purposes but some people like to be open networkers, and connect with many people, and on LinkedIn these are called LIONs. What is a LinkedIn LION It stands for Linked In Open Networker, it basically means that they will accept invites from anyone, […]
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Hotmail 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 readingEmail hacker Simon Ashton is it a Hoax ?
Simon Ashton must be a famous email hacker by now! I was shocked and surprised to receive in my email a hacker hoax that has been going around since 1995 – Do you remember those? Every other email in your Hotmail box was a FW of spam! Lots of spam! NOW this virus warning email has made its way to my Gmail, and I don’t like that. Famous Hacker Simon Ashton So, what happens if you get an email in your inbox warning you of Hacker Simon Ashton The email says VERY URGENT – PLEASE READ – NOT A JOKE IF A PERSON CALLED […]
Continue readingFacebook to start charging – spam spreading again.
No way! Since the beginning of this year there have been various rumours about Facebook charging as from August 2011. There have been groups started up and posts shared. This week we are seeing another type of hoax viral message circulating Facebook that reads… This looks like the old chain mails you used to or maybe do still get reporting that Hotmail are going to start charging unless you forward the email, and of course if you forward, you won’t get charged. Yeah right. Same thing here, its saying that if you share this message your icon will turn blue and […]
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