Archive for the 'Scam' Category

The Phishing Phil

The other day I wrote about the email from Nigeria, which turned out to be a failed phishing expedition originating from this [196.1.176.194] IP address. From what I learnt later, someone sent emails to the victim asking him to update his email information on Yahoo as well as Hotmail accounts otherwise they’d be terminated. [...]

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Fighting Racism, HIV/AIDS, and Poverty?

Recently most of the letters from Nigeria scammers went into the junk mail folder or recyle bin directly, but this one went thru since it was from someone I knew. It takes few phone calls and emails to figure out that this was yet another scam. I wish I had googled it first before contacting [...]

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