FixMeStick Rears Its Ugly Head [Again] With slick Madison-Ave style commercials, glitzy props and paid actors, FixMeStick reminds us that you don’t have to honest to get rich, you just need some good snake oil and a willingness to lie. FixMeStick, is not new, it’s been around for at least 4 years – but the commercials have gotten… Read More »
Microsoft Tech Support Scams are Alive and Well The Microsoft tech support scams are on the loose again. In the past week we had five emails from people who were tricked into calling a fake Microsoft number. The fact is that these “Your computer is infected – call this number” popups are simply advertisements superbly disguised (if I… Read More »
Cloudeight InfoAve Premium – Issue #751 – Available Online If you’re not a subscriber to Cloudeight InfoAve Premium Newsletter, please join us. It’s delivered to your inbox every Friday and it’s completely free! Subscribe right now! Our Cloudeight InfoAve Premium, Issue #751, was sent to all subscribers on Friday March 2, 2018 at approximately 8:50 AM, U. S.… Read More »
Cloudeight InfoAve Premium – Issue #749 – Available Online If you’re not a subscriber to Cloudeight InfoAve Premium Newsletter, please join us. It’s delivered to your inbox every Friday and it’s completely free! Subscribe right now! Our Cloudeight InfoAve Premium, Issue #749, was sent to all subscribers on Friday February 16, 2018 at approximately 10:00 AM, U. S.… Read More »
IRS Scams & Tech Support Scams It’s tax season here in the USA and that means not only do you have to be careful about tech-support / your-computer-is-infected telephone scams, this time of year you have to worry about tax scams and folks impersonating IRS officials. An IRS agent is not going to call you out of the… Read More »
New Tech Support Scam Affects Chrome & Firefox users This scam was first reported two days ago ( 6 Feb 2018 ). Since then, it has been discovered that along with Chrome, Firefox and Brave browsers are also affected. This scam works by flooding the browser with 2000 download requests, right after the victim sees a web page… Read More »