Category: Scams

This is a rather interesting variation on the scam e-mails I’ve received. The subject line was “[username] : [password]”, where [username] is ...

Received this one this morning. This time I left the alleged password in the body of the e-mail as I’ve never used that password anywhere. Either theyR...

Overnight this morning I received two blackmail scam e-mails. They were identical except for the Bitcoin address. And this time the text of the threat was embed...

Another scam e-mail I received recently, this one being a variation on ones I’ve written about here before: Hello, As you may have noticed, I sent this em...

I recently heard of this scam from Jim Browning. Full disclosure: I do support him on Patreon. So I’ll let him describe how this scam works, since he disc...

There are some tell-tale signs that an e-mail is a phishing or scam attempt. I’ve received “Your account has been compromised” e-mails bearing...

Scam artists are always looking for new ways to get your money or information. They modify their scams so they are more sophisticated and able to seduce more pe...