Phishing attack

[Supervisor42]

...They claim the most vulnerable sites are Christian and other religious sites that spend far less on security. And because people in those groups tend to be more trusting and have more money.

You mean like the IT guy running the DNC email server and his password was...(wait for it) PASSWORD?
Or when HC bleached her private email server before giving it to the FBI and Julian Assange told them not to worry, he and the rest of the world had a copy of all of the messages?

Being safe is not that hard:
1. Don't install anything.
2. Don't click on links in emails.
3. Use a different password for login at each different place.
4. Don't open attachments that are from a source that you cannot verify.
4a. Anything that is actually important will be a letter in your mailbox.
5. Have a good defense like McAfee running just in case some idiot sits down at your keyboard.

 

[Weedygarden]

Porn sites are notorius for this and for loading up your computer with spyware and other malware. Porn sites are to be avoided like the plague!!

Yes, they have been notorious for this. I have gotten a virus once, when I was looking for song lyrics. That was completely shocking to me. Once in a while I look for song lyrics, but I am very careful now.

 

[joel]

Social Security called to tell me that someone was using my number............................
I do not know what they said becaue I hung up on them.

 

[Supervisor42]

Social Security called to tell me that someone was using my number............................
I do not know what they said becaue I hung up on them.

You have to think about it for just a second.
If the SSA was calling you because someone else was using your number, they know that you are the real owner of the number;
what exactly do they need YOUR help to do?
Absolutely nothing.

 

[joel]

You have to think about it for just a second.
If the SSA was calling you because someone else was using your number, they know that you are the real owner of the number;
what exactly do they need YOUR help to do?
Absolutely nothing.

Right!The scam is to have me give them my number so they are sure, it is the number & I am who they called for.
Also the DEA says the FBI is coming for me!! but that is another post.