Had a funny email from some n00b scam merchant; From: FedEx Ground <alvin.bowers@em021.cside.jp> Date: 27 February 2015 at 15:46 Subject: Unable to deliver your item, #000552451 To: my@email.address Dear Customer, Your parcel has arrived at February 26. Courier was unable to deliver the parcel to you. Delivery Label is attached to this email. Yours sincerely, Alvin […]
This is an old take on a common scam whereby a scammer emails a random person claiming to be in a position of authority – normally within a bank or financial institute – and they usually claim to have access to a large amount of money that they either need to get rid of, or that […]
–> Meet Simon Macbeth 🙂 <– Today’s subject is a chap called Simon Macbeth and I felt compelled to write this blog post after seeing a link circulating on Facebook at the weekend. Simon Macbeth lives in the Leeds area, rents a few rooms in his house and runs a few other little businesses – mainly […]
Facebook has recently rolled out its “in house” browser to “open links faster” on Android and possibly iOS devices (anyone confirm the iOS bit?) and I’ve been cool with it so far as it does seem to make things a bit faster – but then the real reason for this new feature suddenly dawned on […]