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  • How clean up your email and reduce spam

    How clean up your email and reduce spam

    A crowded inbox is frustrating, but clicking every “unsubscribe” link in the spam folder is not a safe cleanup method. Separate unwanted legitimate subscriptions from messages you do not trust. Start with the messages you recognise Use the unsubscribe process for a legitimate newsletter you knowingly subscribed to. If you are unsure whether a message…

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  • Amazon Prime phone scam – how to spot it & what to do

    Amazon Prime phone scam – how to spot it & what to do

    Amazon is not a company I have personally used for many, many years due to their purported UK tax evasion (e.g. Amazon’s main UK division pays no corporation tax for second year in a row or Amazon’s biggest UK firms pay NO corporation tax – despite making £193-a-second) And this Amazon Prime phone scam is…

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  • The PayPal refund scam  – how to spot it & what to do

    The PayPal refund scam  – how to spot it & what to do

    Here’s a new-to-me PayPal scam called the ‘refund scam’ that takes advantage of PayPal’s invoice system to send out scam emails directly via PayPal. Here’s a quick run-though of how it works, how to spot the scam, and what to do. Sadly, trying to get in touch with PayPal support via any means is often…

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  • Domain owners watch out for this new scam

    A customer of ours received this email and asked us what it was. From: <scam-company> Admin Department [mailto:admin@<scam-company>.co.uk] Sent: 19 December 2012 02:42 To: INFO Subject: Pending Transfer-IN <your-domain-name.co.uk> Dear Mr <your-name>, Please note that your domain <your-domain-name.co.uk> is not yet transferred to <scam-company>. Transferring of a domain name is a simple process. Kindly contact…

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  • Phishing emails – tell-tale signs it’s not from who it says it’s from

    I’ve just received quite an ingenious phishing email… well it’s slightly more intelligently conceived and implemented than the usual type Yesterday I made an order on Amazon and today I get an email, pertaining to be from Amazon, telling me that my order has been cancelled! Firstly, even though I’m sure that me receiving an…

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