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If you have ever bought a domain name, you’ve probably received an email with that same (or very similar) text in the subject line. Rest assured, it is spam. One thing is for certain: almost every email you get regarding your domain name, you can ignore. Unless the email is from the company which you …
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By now you probably have become pretty good at spotting a phishing or “spoof” email. The email looks a bit off right? Those are the easy ones. But phishers and scammers are getting better at their phishing emails. Lately we have been seeing a new wave of emails where they take an existing email from …
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As anyone with an email account has probably experienced, there are lots of spammy and scammy emails being sent out there. Some are very obvious spam and have ED pill ads in them or are asking that you send money to Nigeria. But for the new business or new website owner, the spam scam emails …
The next time you are looking to go out to dinner, skip one of the many chain restaurants you can find anywhere, and check out some of the independently owned places right in our own Historic Downtown here in Melbourne. From pizza to burgers, pub food to fine dining, the Historic Downtown area has anything …
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If you’ve noticed your Google ranking has bounced around lately, have solace in the fact that you are not the only one. Google has acknowledged the fact that they have had multiple algorithm updates the last several weeks and there are more to come. It appears they do NOT save their algorithm updates all for …
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By now most people know what a phishing email is or at the very least have heard of it. In case you do not know, a phishing email is an attempt by a scammer to get you to click on an email in the ultimate goal of robbing you of money or compromising your security information. The …
The scammers are good but their greed gives them away. The attached image is of a phishing email sent to me today. If they made it only for 50 bucks or 75 bucks I would have maybe started to believe it, but probably not. 500 buck Christmas gift card? Yeah right. Nobody gives that out. Maybe in scammer world …
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Just about every week, it seems, a new, breathless ALL CAPS virus or hacker “warning” begins rocketing around Facebook. Generally, these messages are just so vague, misleading and inaccurate that they are virtually worthless as security warnings and should not be reposted. A core recurring claim in many of these bogus warnings is that hackers …
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When vying to get your website noticed you will most definitely stumble across some sites that guarantee you that they will get you first page Google for $199 a month. Let me tell you what will happen. A few months will go by and you will be out $500+ before you realize you have been …
