Tagged Email Scam: Another Email Spam or A New Virus?

June 9, 2009 · Filed Under Internet Security · 1 Comment 

What do we know about the Tagged Email Scam? Are the Tagged.com messages you receive from friends an email scam or virus? If you have received an email with a subject line “you’ve been tagged!” from tagged.com, don’t give open it. This is the Tagged Email Scam. It has a virus-like behavior which asks for your email address and then will tell you to send the same tag you received to all your contacts. It’s viral or virus-like in behavior. If we may add, it’s terribly annoying. Unsolicited messages from websites like tagged.com are by nature suspicious because they are possibly phishing information via your email accounts.

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Received the Worldpay Card Transaction Confirmation Scam/Virus in Microsoft Outlook

April 27, 2009 · Filed Under Internet Security · 1 Comment 

I opened Microsoft Outlook this morning to find out that Worldpay Card Transaction Confirmation Scam/Virus has already gotten through. It’s been there for days but it was only today that I got the chance to open it. Microsoft Outlook automatically downloads emails from my servers so I really cannot notice immediately what emails are downloaded.

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Worldpay Card Transaction Confirmation: Scam or Virus?

April 24, 2009 · Filed Under Internet Security · 1 Comment 

The Worldpay Card Transaction Confirmation is considered by some as a virus and for some, a scam. Whatever it is, Worldpay Card Transaction Confirmation is a security threat to those affected. In my view, it could be both an email scam and virus rolled into one malicious electronic letter. Here is the email received by “infected” users for your information: Read more

Beware of Email Scams on the Internet

December 17, 2008 · Filed Under Internet Security · 6 Comments 

I was really astonished to know that email scams on the internet constitute 90% of the total emails sent daily, Cisco reported. Agence France-Presse also indicated that “armies of hijacked computers are flooding the world with spam as hackers devise slicker ways to take over unwitting people’s machines”. This report was based on Cisco’s findings.

Beware of email scams, that’s the only advice I can give you. Don’t open emails coming from unknown sources especially those claiming that you’ve won a large sum of money. Read more

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