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Tag: Scammers

Try This Search!

On October 13, 2020October 14, 2020 By John GrubbIn Scams, Search, Social Engineering, this Blog

Once again, in the past week, I have two long-time customers who fell for a scam. Even though I've talked about the types of scams with which they got involved, they fell for it anyway. Just today, a scammer tried to get almost $700 from one of these customers. With that in mind, here's what …

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“I Got Taken For $275”

On July 30, 2020 By John GrubbIn Scams, Social Engineering

The title of this post is what I heard a few days ago when I answered a phone call from one of our customers. It's difficult to believe that I've been on a soapbox for 4 years preaching the same message: Microsoft, Apple and others don't call you on the phone to tell you there's …

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Email – More Important Than You Think

On January 26, 2019January 25, 2019 By John GrubbIn Email, Info, Security4 Comments

I recently read of a lady in the US who was selling her house in Australia. She made the mistake of sending some information via email and she lost a lot of money. She didn't know that scammers had intercepted her emails to the legitimate firm with which she was dealing. (Click on the button …

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