Tag: ONLINE SCAMS

We hope that by now you've become adept at spotting spam and scam e-mails just by taking a quick glance at their subjects. Gross typos, egregiously bad grammar, and an over-abundance of exclamation points are a sure sign, but you're soon going to have to learn a few new tricks to avoid the most recent batch of scam e-mails, which are personalized to look like news reports local to your town. The ...

Yes, we know we've covered the biggest e-mail scams before, but criminals never stop coming up with new ways to mess you up via the Internet, so we've decided it's time for an update -- this time focusing on specific e-mails to watch out for (that is, if you want to avoid everything from garden variety financial scams and computer viruses to flat-out ID theft). As always, remember there are ...

Phishing is the practice of sending out fake e-mails in an attempt to lure unsuspecting recipients into providing information about themselves -- things like passwords, credit card information, or even Social Security numbers. By now everyone knows to watch out for and ignore shady e-mails with bad grammar (right?), but what about shady e-mails that appear to be sent from your Google Calendar ...