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  1. How to Protect Your Windows PC from Microsoft Phishing Scams in 2023

    Windows users worldwide are once again under siege—not by viruses or ransomware, but by the cunning manipulations of cybercriminals who exploit trust in the name of legitimacy. Over the past few weeks, officials have observed a sharp uptick in sophisticated phishing campaigns that exploit the...
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    • Forum: Windows News

  2. Indicators of a Phishing/Social Engineering Email #2 - Fake PayPal

    Here is another real phishing email. This one purporting to be from PayPal. Lets dig in... (Orange) we have typos and grammatical errors (1) Again we have a weird email address from @paypap-us.com. This is highly unlikely owned by PayPal. (2) This email is probably BCC'd to a bunch of users...
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    • Forum: Windows Security

  3. Windows 10 Bogus Emails, what?

    Hi Both my wife and I are getting bogus emails from people we know that we know they aren't sending intentionally. What these messages have in common is the code goo.gl/ I kind of understand that this is a signal to shorten the visible address. The messages have no subject, have a message...
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    • Forum: Windows Help and Support

  4. Windows 7 Amazon notification scam alert.

    Just posting for those that have Amazon associated with your ordering email address. just this past week, I have received a couple of order update notices that looked like it came from Amazon, and sure enough it's faked. Since I used this particular email address for order notification, it was...
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    • Forum: Windows Security