Let’s Talk About Vishing and Number Spoofing Every year victims of online scams lose billions of dollars to criminal trickery. The best way to defend yourself is by staying informed and learning about the tactics criminals use to steal people’s money. Today we’re going to talk about “Vishing” and “Number spoofing”. Vishing Vishing, short for voice phishing,… Read More »
One Ring and You Could Be Out of Cash Have you ever gotten a missed call from an unknown number, only to call back and be met with strange automated messages or high-pitched ringing? If so, you might have encountered a wangiri scam. Wangiri, a Japanese term meaning “one ring and cut,” describes a telephone scam… Read More »
A Guide to Avoiding the Most Popular Holiday Scams: We Want You to Be Safe! As Christmas gets closer, scammers get more active. Just in the past week, we received several emails from people who were scammed and asked us for help cleaning up the bad guys’ leftovers. The others fell for other kinds of scams. Those… Read More »
Saturday Bonus Questions and Answers – 041523 It’s April and that means if you’re in the USA it’s time to pay your dues to Uncle Sam. If you’ve been procrastinating, we’ve got good news for you. Since tax day falls on Saturday this year, the IRS is giving everyone until midnight on Tuesday, April 18,… Read More »
Wednesday Newsbytes: 75 Flaws Fixed -Microsoft Patch Tuesday, Microsoft’s Unhinged ChatGTP Insults Users, Microsoft/IE Divorce is Final, Clicking Google Ads Could Cost You Your Passwords, How Windows 11 Scrapes Your Data, How to Stop Spam Calls… and more! Every day we scan the tech world for interesting news in the world of technology and sometimes from… Read More »