Scams

A rather clever phishing email currently hitting inboxes attempts to emulate the genuine “new sign-in” security warnings sent out by email service providers.

According to this email, which was supposedly sent by the “Email Security Team” at Yahoo.com,  your account has been infected with a virus. 

If you use Instagram, be wary of fake notification messages claiming that your account has violated copyright and is set to be deleted.

This email, which was supposedly sent by a “hacker who has access to your operating system”,  claims that your computer was infected with a “Trojan Virus” through an adult site that you visited.

According to this email, my PayPal account has been limited and I only have 24 hours to resolve this limitation. Despite its appearance, however,  the email is not from PayPal.

Facebook users continue to fall for criminal ploys claiming that they have won a  large cash prize in a supposed Facebook lottery or grant.

According to this email, which purports to be from PayPal, your transaction is being reviewed. Supposedly, PayPal’s  “system has detected that you are using a new unknown device”.

According to this email, you have won $2,970,000 in the Millionaire-Raffle promotion conducted by an entity named “Royal Slots Online”. 

If you use the file hosting service Dropbox, keep an eye out for fake notification emails claiming that you have new Dropbox messages.