I received the following phishing email today.  It’s a variation on the "your email inbox is too large" scam I posted in June.  It plays Habitat’s name, Haiti relief, and pure greed — it claims you can earn big tax-free commissions as a fundraiser.  There are so many things wrong with this pitch.  Fundraising (at [...]

Tags: Phishing, Spam

I’ve used a digital wallet for years to keep track of my passwords (I use Roboform but there are other choices).  Recently I found that it serves a purpose that hadn’t occured to me: phishing prevention.  Here’s the deal: I got a message from a friend with a link.  Without thinking too much about it, [...]

Tags: Security, Spam

This is such a lame phishing scam that I can’t imagine anyone falling for it.  But I received three of these messages in the past two days so I’m passing it along. I reported this account to Google, so I hope they’ll disable it.

Dear Webmail User,

This message was sent automatically by a program [...]

Tags: Security, Spam

I just received two identical messages with the following text. There’s no URL — the only way to respond is to reply to the message. Replies go to updatweb1 at aol.com I hope no one’s foolish enough to fall for this.

—–Original Message—–
From: apache@net.lg.ua [mailto:apache@net.lg.ua] On Behalf Of Webmail Support
Sent: Friday, [...]

Tags: IT Management, Security, Spam

The Washington Posts’s Security Fix blog reports that spam volumes declined by 2/3 after an ISP that was hosting spam operations was taken offline. The story:

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Tags: Spam