Using QR Codes for Your Business We've had a few requests about using QR codes and how to make them. They're amazingly versatile and they don't need to be sanitized! Due to COVID a lot of businesses are using QR codes for getting inf... Feb 19, 2021
Basics of SEO, AdWords, and Social Media We worked with the Middletown Chamber of Commerce 's Dr. Lesser to provide a couple short Zoom webinars on website SEO, AdWords, and social media basics. The Chamber hosts many "affinity sessions" per... Feb 11, 2021
The Fake Support Popup Scam You're researching work stuff on the Internet, click a link, and blam! Big scary website pops up with text, images, and a talking voice that your computer is infected with a horrible virus. The websit... Feb 11, 2021
The Call Us Scam This scam features a phone call to the scammers rather than the usual e-mail links. The scammer sends out e-mails that try to look like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, etc and convince you that someone pur... Feb 9, 2021
Your Computer Has Been Hacked! Blackmail By Deception. Whenever we see this scam it stirs up some anger in deep, dark places. The scammer is preying on people that don't know technology well enough to know they're full of...hot air. It's scummy in the scu... Feb 8, 2021
Amazon Credential Phishing We choose to feature this scam e-mail because it uses some techniques we don't get to see very often. Otherwise, it's a standard credential phishing scam. Credential phishing is where scammers/attacke... Jan 27, 2021
WeTransfer And Botnets This is a nasty one and more advanced than it appears. Read the "What It Does" section for more detail on that. The e-mail comes pretending to be a WeTransfer link. This is a legitimate file transfer ... Jan 5, 2021
Your Domain Terminated? Nah. This is a new one for us in e-mail. We see this almost every day from paper mail but never e-mail. This is a straight-forward scam that your domain is expiring and you must renew it. Now or it'll be t... Dec 9, 2020
Netflix Payment Declined Texts We've seen a very significant spike in scams over the last couple weeks. Maybe the scammers are saving up for Christmas presents too? Our scam today is one that's been making the rounds the last week,... Nov 26, 2020
The Expiring Mailbox Scam This is a fairly common scam that plays on fear to make you do something without thinking too much. "Your account is being disabled because you did something wrong so would you kindly click the link t... Nov 16, 2020
What Is Ransomware? Ransomware has emerged as one of the biggest threats to companies with any type of reliance on technology. So, pretty much all of them. Ransomware once didn’t even have a name for itself. It was just ... Nov 3, 2020