Author: Olly

Seem to be getting a lot of these recently – they are slipping through the Gmail spam filters and Gmail doesn’t instantly pick up they are dodgy. After a while it marks the attachment as a virus but not straight away. If you’re ever unsure what to do or if things like this are real, […]

A friend of mine forwarded me an email that he had identified as a scam. It contained a brief message and a word document attachment, lets take a closer look; From: “Jerry Donovan” <Kristina.a51@motogalos.pt> Date: 16 Mar 2015 14:38 Subject: Outstanding invoices – 563339 January To: “chris” <chris@btinterwebs.com> Cc: Dear Sirs, Kindly find attached our reminder […]

Had so many fun things through on my email recently, Its like they want to be published ahah 🙂 It seems the current trend is to keep the email basic so as to not trip the spam filters, but then whack a document or followup email with the meaty goodness in – this is what […]

I recieved this today; That was it! No long email (no email at all actually) no “bla bla geef me the monies” just quite simply, nothing! The email header looked like this; from: jing.kang@mris.com to: info@live.com date: 5 March 2015 at 10:34 subject: I pick you for a project..send REPLY mailed-by: mris.com So me being […]