Just got a highly suspicious phone call to my old cell phone from a number coming up as 0000000000. Claimed some account of mine was locked, though I didn’t catch what company it was claiming. Told me to press 1 to get to their security center. Since I cannot think of a single legitimate company I would have an account with that would still be ( Read more... )

Okay, scams are bad enough when aimed at people with jobs and/or income, but I just read on the Oregon Unemployment website about a scam where people steal people's ReliaCards (what they initially put the unemployment money on) to get people's personal information to steal their identities ( Read more... )

Today I received an email claiming to be from Yahoo Alerts. And it's scary how well they're pretending; I truly believed it was an official Yahoo email until they asked for my password. Here is a copy of the email:

Important Information Regarding Your yahoo Account
Tuesday, June 30, 2009 5:51 AM
From: "Yahoo! Alert" To: undisclosed-recipients ( Read more... )

I got an email in my inbox today that looks like it's from PayPal, it looks like a legitimate security email, saying that someone tried to access my account from a foreign IP address. I was worried for a while, so I went to paypal and logged in. Thank goodness I didn't log in from the link they provided in the email. I saw no new activity on my ( Read more... )