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New style of phishing/scam email circulating....

Seems they are getting clever....

The BBC report that somehow, someone has obtained limited personal data - seems to be names AND postal addresses - to make this general scam email more believable.

Belief is that it will download Malware that may encrypt and lock your system unless you pay to have it unlocked.

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  • PRO
    There are lots of similar things going about. I get about 10 a week....
    • PRO

      That's my point. We all get the standard ones but this is a new iteration.

      It is similar but now has  name and postal address, rather than just your name & email, that makes it more likely to be clicked upon....

      • PRO
        I get lots which say thanks for your order and such like. With attachments that are .xml or similar things!! I have had fake PayPal ones, fake bank ones along with some other really convincing ones
        • Yeah same here. The spoofing email address ones are a pain. My own business email was used once, as I got an email from myself demanding payment :)

          I guess that's the problem with having an email address publicly available.

          • PRO

            You could set up alternative email addresses, i.e one for public domain, one for contacting clients,etc  I currently have nine:-)

            • Yeah I have plenty of addresses I use. It's just the one I use on advertising that got spoofed.

              You made me check my domains, I have 15 domains and 37 email addresses at the moment. For some reason I seem to buy domains when drunk :)

  • PRO

    password security, how good is yours, well here's a little chart I've come across that tells you how fast it takes to guess your password

    http://www.lockdown.co.uk/?pg=combi

    how much time would you like for someone to guess your password, less than 1 second or 63 

    quadrillion years

    and 30% of users use 1 of the 10,000 most popular passwords

    http://researchasahobby.com/protect-your-website-from-hacking/

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