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#Headdesk. Newegg Email Spam Attack
My family does a midweek weekend on Wednesdays and Thursdays – those are Josh’s days off, I make my own schedule here at Hearts and Laserbeams, and that lets us still have family weekends together. But my small business clients are generally online Monday through Friday. So on my days off, I use the Gmail…
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Fun With Phishing Scams Part 1: The Introduction
About a week ago, I woke up at 5:30am to get ready for work. I lay in bed for a couple of minutes, tinkering on my phone, and I checked my email. I got one of those phishing scams in my regular inbox, which was bizarre – they usually filter right to the spam folder!…
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Fun With Phishing Scams Part 2: Matheis Takes the Bait
So as you read in Part 1 of our Fun with Phishing Scams adventure, this scammer Matheis wants to give me 13 million dollars. Â I sent him a short sweet reply asking for more info, and I got the following: Now, that screengrab is totally tiny – read on for what his email said: Sir,…
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Fun With Phishing Scams Part 3: Matheis Gets Peeved
If you’re coming into this at Part 3 of my Fun with Phishing Scams series, you really need to read Part 1 and Part 2 – then come back here! So I finally heard back from Matheis after my slew of ridiculous questions, and his tone of voice sounded kind of annoyed that I wouldn’t…
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Fun with Phishing Scams Part 4: Matheis Opens Up
Don’t start with Part 4 of our Fun with Phishing Scams series! If you haven’t read Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3, go get caught up. It’s funny stuff, I swear. At this point, I was pretty sure I wasn’t going to hear from our friend Matheis the email scammer anymore after my last barrage of…
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Fun with Phishing Scams Part 5: The End… Or the Beginning?
Don’t start on the back page of the book, if you haven’t read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, or Part 4 go get caught up first! Days went by, and I never heard back from my Fun with Phishing Scams series buddy Matheis. So I decided to be the bigger person and get back in…
