Showing posts with the label scams
This one hurts a little. We've all gotten scammy-looking toll payment texts. Most of the time, they're fakes. But one California driver found out the hard way that ignoring them isn't always safe. USA Today tells the story of a woman who, like many of us, started receiving text messages warning her about overdue toll payments. She assumed they were bogus and deleted them. I'…
Uh oh. You got an email. Possibly "from" your own email address. The bad guy sending the email says they're targeting YOU and YOU specifically. That they've got access to your webcam. They've hacked their way into your online photo library, they claim. The…
Quick Hit: Today, Consumerist talks about Slate's Big Money blog, where Chadwick Matlin asks and answers the question, "Who’s to blame for these hideous Internet ads that just won’t go away?" Read it here .