Domain Tasting Left a Bad Taste in My Mouth What is Domain Tasting?There is a dirty little cybersquatting practice called Domain Tasting. “Domain Tasting” refers to a situation where an entity registers a domain name and then tests to see if the name has sufficient traffic to provide more income than the annual registration fee… Continue reading Domain Tasting Left a Bad Taste In My Mouth
Category: SCAMS
The Violin Scam At Wal-Mart
The Violin Scam at Wal-Mart By now you likely have seen the person outside Target, Wal-Mart, Best Buy, or grocery store, play their electric violin for the crowd of shoppers. On the surface, it looks like it is just some person who is down on their luck and who can play well and they are… Continue reading The Violin Scam At Wal-Mart
Bitcoin Hostage Video SCAM
Bitcoin Hostage Video SCAM In what appears to be a twist on the sextortion SCAMs that have been running around for a few years, you know the one where you get an email that states that they hacked your computer, turned on your webcam, and caught you surfing porn, and “entertaining” yourself (for those of… Continue reading Bitcoin Hostage Video SCAM
Fake iPad
Fake iPad – How Cute I got this cute little scam on my work iPhone. It appears that I have a parcel that is being shipped to me and I can track it via the URL they sent. I particularly like the domain name they have selected for this scam. So being the evern so… Continue reading Fake iPad
DMV SCAM
DMV SCAM A good friend passed this one on to me. He received a text message from the “DMV”. It was actually a phishing scam. They are phishing acting like the DMV (Department of Motor Vehicles) and want you to go to a website to update your information. The texts come from (804) 508-6410 which… Continue reading DMV SCAM
SPAM Email – Fake Pharmacies
SPAM Email – Fake Pharmacies *** Many URL links have been removed for your protection *** Part of stopping SPAM is to understand how it works. These are two email messages that I have received this week. This looks simple enough, it is simple SPAM that somehow managed to get through my SPAM filters. If… Continue reading SPAM Email – Fake Pharmacies
Committee for Police Officers Defense
Committe For Police Officers Defense Your phone rings and you answer it, and you hear. “Oh, I’m glad you picked up. I was getting my answering machine voice ready, haha. Good morning this is Steve Savage calling for the Committee for Police Officers Defense. This Call is recorded for quality assurance Ok…Hello…..Hello” So who is the… Continue reading Committee for Police Officers Defense
Catching Money Mules
Catching Money Mules Jim Browning is the Internet alias of a London-based software engineer and YouTuber from Northern Ireland whose content primarily focuses on scambaiting and exposing scam call centers. Jim’s goal is to catch the scammers. A software engineer by trade, Browning began looking into scammers after a relative lost money to a technical… Continue reading Catching Money Mules
Phone Scammer Calls the Police
Phone Scammer Calls the Police This is Police Captain Ann Stephens at Apex North Carolina, talking to a phone scammer. The transcript of the phone call is as follows: Scammer: Can you verify me your home address? Captain Stephens: No I will not Scammer: I’m sorry no Captain Stephens: I’m not going to give you… Continue reading Phone Scammer Calls the Police
Phone Scam with Mark Rober
Phone Scam With Mark Rober If you don’t know who Mark Rober is, he is an American YouTuber, engineer, and inventor. He is known for his YouTube videos on popular science and do-it-yourself gadgets. Before YouTube, Rober was an engineer with NASA for 9 years where spending seven of those years working on the Curiosity… Continue reading Phone Scam with Mark Rober
