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Smishing and Vishing: Scammers are targeting your cell phone
Are you familiar with the terms smishing and vishing? They’ve been around for a few years now, but they’re not as common as email phishing and haven’t been given as much attention. Both smishing and vishing are variations on the phish theme: smishing...
Email from Director Mueller
*** DO NOT FOLLOW ANY OF THESE INSTRUCTIONS – LINK FUNCTIONALITY IN THIS POST HAS BEEN DISABLED *** I received an email from the FBI Director today, I thought it might be fun to publish it to my blog. I am publishing the Plain Text version of the email...
Posted: 04-18-2010 5:26 by jim® | with 2 comment(s)
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Happy Magic Day!
Ehrich Weiss, better known by his stage name Harry Houdini, died in a Detroit hospital on this day in 1926. A student asked Houdini if it was true that he could accept blows to the stomach without harm. Houdini said yes, and the student punched him in...
The Black Patch - Debunked
As many of you know I don’t normally post urban legends or hoaxes on my blog; especially since there are plenty of legitimate sites that do this already (i.e. http://www.snopes.com , http://urbanlegends.about.com , etc…); however when I receive the email...
Cell Phones a Poppin'
As many of you know I receive hundreds of emails a day and many of them are "forwards" from friends who just have to know if something is real or not. I received one from a member of my family today that shows a video (see below) in which a...
Posted: 08-10-2008 0:53 by jim® | with 1 comment(s)
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