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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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  • The scammers are in plain site, but Facebook appears to be doing nothing to stop them

    Today I posted a few items for sale on the Facebook Marketplace. A couple of kids bikes and similar things that the kids had grown out of. Instead of other options like eBay I posted them on my local Facebook community selling groups as they’re items that I really can’t be bothered to package up…

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  • What is a URL shortener and should I use one?

    What is a shortened link? A URL link shortner is a way of shortening or disguising a link. They’re normally used to create a shorter version of a very long link but can also be used to track click-throughs or often to disguise a link (commonly for nefarious purposes!). What does a shortened link look…

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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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  • Protecting your online store

    Owning an internet shop or accepting money for goods or services is common practice these days for many website owners; however, as we’re all aware, criminals are forever finding new ways to defraud business owners. An example of a common scam is where a fraudster, posing as a customer, asks to have an item shipped…

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