scam warning – As Seen Through PeriVision https://www.perivision.net/wordpress An Mobile centric blog ... Full of Tech goodness Fri, 16 Aug 2013 20:48:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 4666035 Beware of scammers while getting info on your Pebble Watch https://www.perivision.net/wordpress/2013/08/beware-of-scammers-while-getting-info-on-your-pebble-watch/ https://www.perivision.net/wordpress/2013/08/beware-of-scammers-while-getting-info-on-your-pebble-watch/#respond Fri, 16 Aug 2013 20:48:28 +0000 http://www.perivision.net/wordpress/?p=8942 Read More]]> I already got mine, but I read this on Reddit and thought I should pass it on.

I got my pebbles almost 2 weeks back and yet again i received another emAil confirming my pre-order with a link to Pay for the same I could have been greedy and done that but something stoped me and i emailed back on same id Which got jumped back I happen to check the details and noticed the email id was not the same as earlier It was ORDERS@getpebble.com rather than” ORDER@Getpebble.com And so when you reply back or email on ORDERS@ .. It gets rejected since its a spoof ,All it would do is make you click the payment fulfillment form and lose your money to scammers,Kindly make sure you check the details and format or confirm with pebble staff Cheers

BEWARE OF SCAMMERS from pebble

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Facebook scam warning: Messages from ‘friends’ may not be all that friendly https://www.perivision.net/wordpress/2011/12/facebook-scam-warning-messages-from-friends-may-not-be-all-that-friendly/ https://www.perivision.net/wordpress/2011/12/facebook-scam-warning-messages-from-friends-may-not-be-all-that-friendly/#respond Sat, 03 Dec 2011 20:26:48 +0000 http://www.perivision.net/wordpress/?p=6262 Read More]]> I got this a few days back and since I do not know this person, or if I do I do not remember why.  I really do not use facebook all that much.  But anyway, my brother got it as well and emailed a scam warning to me, so what the heck, I’ll post it.
Most people already know how to spot a scam, but just in case, here is a scam I just got from Facebook that “almost” looked legit and was enticing enough for me to google it just to make sure!
Beware if you receive an email from a “friend” of someone that you may know. Makes it seem more legit, but remember that if it seems to good to be true, 99.99% of the time it very well is!

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And yet ANOTHER Scam email, this time, Yahoo https://www.perivision.net/wordpress/2011/11/and-yet-another-scam-email-this-time-yahoo/ https://www.perivision.net/wordpress/2011/11/and-yet-another-scam-email-this-time-yahoo/#respond Wed, 16 Nov 2011 19:23:38 +0000 http://www.perivision.net/wordpress/?p=6151 Read More]]> I do not know what it is about his week, but lots of scam messages seem to get getting through.  Normally, I just report these things as spam and move on, but I thought I would post up about this one, not because its original, (heck this was going around last year) or something that most people will fall for, but to remind those who are new to computing, (yes there are still people out there just now getting to this cool new things call the interwebs… its made of a series of tubes you know) that I would post up an example of what NOT to fall for.

This is SOOO  perfect of an example.  As you can see from the screenshot below, click on it to make it larger BTW, that this email SEEMS to come from yahoo.  However, Yahoo, or any other service would NEVER ask you for such information, especially within an email.  So here is a good general rule.  NEVER provide information to ANY service unless you know you have an account and FIRST log into that service.

As weak as the scam is; I’m sure at least 100+ people will fall for it.  Sigh….

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It already started. Email scam for Google+ https://www.perivision.net/wordpress/2011/07/email-scam-for-google/ https://www.perivision.net/wordpress/2011/07/email-scam-for-google/#respond Mon, 04 Jul 2011 19:55:41 +0000 http://www.perivision.net/wordpress/?p=5633 Read More]]> Actually, I would have thought this would have happened faster, but Geekword has reported that there is an email scam going around.  If you click on this fake google+ invite you will be redirected to some pharmacy site, but one can imagine will not take long till some sort of virus payload it put on the page, or worse, they make it look like a google login and get your person information as well.  Great.

So if you do get an invite, be VERY SURE you hover over the link first to see where its going to go before you click on it.

Here is a screenshot from Geekword.

Below is the image of the spam that has been sent over e-mails. We would suggest everyone that they should not click on the link seen inside this message:

Google Plus Spam in email

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Scam warning. Fraud attempt as a Yahoo email https://www.perivision.net/wordpress/2010/09/scam-warning-fraud-attempt-as-a-yahoo-email/ https://www.perivision.net/wordpress/2010/09/scam-warning-fraud-attempt-as-a-yahoo-email/#respond Sun, 05 Sep 2010 07:18:25 +0000 http://www.perivision.net/wordpress/?p=3288 Read More]]> This is a pretty weak attempt to steam peoples information, but I thought I would post up a warning anyway.  I just got this email earlier today and figured I would put out the warning.

If you see anything like this, its a scam.  Do not reply, do not click on anything. Yahoo or any legitamate service would ask your for your information much less with as many grammar errors as I see here. Pass the word.

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