pAsTeL CoRnEr

where I blog about the fun things I do to entertain myself…

scareware

Have you ever encountered an alert or warning that your computer is infected and you are given a link to an antivirus software to download? Don’t fall for this trick, it’s a malicious program known as a “scareware”. It’s another kind of phishing attack (or bait) that’s designed to hook you into thinking it’s coming [...]


another victim of scam mail

I was chatting with a friend last week when she suddenly asked me if I received an email from PayPal. I didn’t receive any email from them but I asked her what’s the email about, sensing something was wrong.
She pasted the content. I asked her from what email address it was sent from. [...]