Clever and deceiving phishing email
I can usually just glance at an email and tell you that it's a fake, phishing email, however this morning a very clever message appeared, claiming to be from IONOS:…
Phishing email with attachment
Don’t click that HTML attachment in the email
The first business task each day is to quickly browse through email messages to find out what is most urgent to work on for the day. Today while browsing through…
Fake: Windows Defender Order
This week I've already received four of these scam emails purporting to be from Microsoft for their Defender app. First of all, Microsoft Defender is included with Microsoft Windows, so…
Beware of a Fake eBay Phishing Scam
I've used eBay for over a decade now, and am quite familiar with how they operate, however today I received a sketchy email that pretends to be from eBay. At…
Don’t Fall for this SMS Email Scam
This morning I received yet another email scam, this time with a twist, because it pretended to be a voice message, inviting me to click a button to listen: First…
Beware of this Amazon phishing scam
I love receiving packages from an Amazon order, however the phishing scams out there are using this trend to try and steal your digital identity. Just now I received the…
Avast phishing scam
Folks, the scammers out there are getting quite polished in their fake emails, and this morning was another example that looked legitimate: Official logoPlausible subject lineUsed First name, but missed…
Amazon email phishing scam
The email scammers are getting more sophisticated in how realistic their email messages look, consider this one from today: There's a nice looking logo, proper English grammar, but there are…
Phishing and Spear-Phishing
I've blogged a lot about protecting yourself when receiving an email with suspicious origins and content. Today I received a very useful email from Quicken that I wanted to share…
Phishing, not from the real Mailjet
I setup a free Mailjet account years ago, just so I could do some testing, and today when an email appeared from Mailjet with a link to an invoice, it…