Posts Tagged ‘scams’

A Face Lift in Cape Coral?

Thursday, July 24th, 2008
I received a well-written, but completely absurd, spam e-mail yesterday. It started out by saying:
“I was looking at websites under the keyword face lift cape coral and came across your site tropicalwebworks.com. I see that you’re ranked #1 on page 18 in google. I am not sure if you are aware of why you’re ranked this low but more importantly how easily correctable this is.”
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Phishing and Phishing Detection

Saturday, January 5th, 2008
I recently had 2 diametrically opposite experiences with phishing. In the world of the Internet, “phishing” is when some entity (a scammer) — typically, a website or e-mail sender — pretends to be some organization that a user has a relationship with, and attempts to entice the user into providing personal and confidential information (such as passwords, bank account numbers, PIN numbers, etc.) to the scammer. eBay, PayPal, banks, and other similar sites are popular phishing targets. (more…)

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