Posts about obvious (and not so obvious) scam on the internet.
It is messages like the one below which endear me to spammers, the language is so wonderfully awful! I have visions of an enthusiastic cyber-criminal in some far flung corner of the globe, sitting with a biro in one hand and a language dictionary in the other, trying to compose the perfect hoax email. Read…
I was presently surprised when my post on the scammers “Quick Resolve”, received a lot traffic in the comments. Here they are pasted from the original post along with any replies of mine if relevant. They all show the original posting dates. ————–40 responses to “Quick Resolve”Ivan BertiMarch 4, 2011I have just received a call…
The Fraudsters are at it again! I had a call yesterday from “Windows Service Centre” from a chap with an almost incomprehensible Asian accent. This was not their first call to me and I that they were an outfit similar to “Quick Resolve”. I allowed the conversation to continue and pretended to be ignorant. The usual…
Updated – for information on how to report fraud scroll to the bottom) A senior citizen couple whom I know were phoned the other day by a company called Quick Resolve; although initially they introduced themselves as ‘Windows Maintenance Department” or similar (see Phone Scam). They stated that my friends’ computer was infected with a virus;…
A sledgehammer approach to the Spam problem Spam or unsolicited email is an ongoing problem for Internet users. However, there is one solution to the problem which causes much grief to ordinary and innocent users. These are the various ant-spam blacklists used by many ISPs and other organisations or businesses who run mail-servers. Innocent Users…
