Re: Hotmail! Account Services Member Notification – Phishing
One of the disadvantages of having an email address at one of the big free email providers — Hotmail, Yahoo!, Gmail, etc. — is that everybody wants to steal your account and use it for nefarious...
View ArticleAutentificate your craigslist.org account – Phishing Example
Today’s new word is autentificate. As in: “You need to autentificate your craigslist account.” In this instance autentificate can be defined as “give up the login credentials for” or “compromise”. As...
View ArticleYour mailbox is over its size limit – Happy Ending
We are not fond of URL shorteners because, whether they mean to or not, they help spammers. Spammers like to have a lot of URLs that all go to the same site so spam filters don’t see the same URL over...
View Article…Your $50 Coupon to McDonald’s inside! Not!
The truth is, this has nothing to do with McDonald’s. The message even says so, if you read the fine print: The advertisers in this email are not affiliated with any of the above brands. Apparently...
View ArticleMiss Freya and the Taliban Virus
Today, in the “more proof that there’s nothing new under the sun” category, we’re going to discuss the Taliban Virus. The so-called “Taliban Virus” is a MANUAL virus. A manual virus requires you to...
View ArticleLinkedIn Shows How To Do “Reset Your Password” Emails Right
We’re constantly bombarded with examples of how large well-known companies shoot themselves in the foot with poorly thought out client communications. They commonly make foolish mistakes that send...
View ArticleWhat if someone says they sent me a message but I didn’t get it?
We commonly receive questions from users who tell us an expected email has not arrived, and they don’t know how to go about finding it. Fortunately, with proper information and the right approach, it’s...
View ArticleOnlyMyEmail Beats 22 Competitors in the Virus Bulletin Spam Challenge
The results from OnlyMyEmail’s sixth Virus Bulletin VBSpam Challenge competition have been released. For the sixth time in a row, OnlyMyEmail’s MX-Defender stopped more spam than any of the 23...
View ArticleIntroducing Your US Department of Justice and FBI Victim Notification System
Here’s something we really don’t see every day…. We recently received an email claiming to be from the U.S Department of Justice Victim Notification System (VNS) Subject: US Department of Justice...
View ArticleOnce Again, OnlyMyEmail Stops More Spam
The results from OnlyMyEmail’s seventh participation in the Virus Bulletin VBSpam Challenge competition have been released. For the seventh time in a row, OnlyMyEmail’s MX-Defender has blocked more...
View ArticleAnother First Place Finish in the VBSpam Competition
For the thirteenth consecutive evaluation, OnlyMyEmail has again blocked more spam than any other filtering system in the Virus Bulletin VBSpam Challenge and secured yet another first place finish. The...
View ArticleOpenSSL Heartbleed Exploit: What To Know
We’ve had questions regarding OnlyMyEmail’s spam filtering and email hosting services and how they might be affected by the recent HeartBleed exploit within OpenSSL software. As soon as the exploit was...
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