I received a phishing email attempt from “Maybank” to an email account that is not linked to my Maybank account. Still, I am thankful that the phishing email was filtered to my Spam folder so that I don’t accidentally clicked on the phishing links that are in the email. The message came from maybank2u@securitylog.com.my, obviously […]

In late August, I received an email that was sent by the name of a prominent philanthropist. The email address was slightly different. I only corresponded to this person once and I guess this person, this scammer, who had access to the address book of the legitimate email owner, sent out a mass email to […]

Buy cheap Viagra online As internet users, I am sure many of us have encountered many stories of African scams, particularly from Nigeria. Actually, I know of a few Nigerian Scam 411 victims, one even died as a result of being scammed. A couple of days ago, I read an article that highlighted the other […]

In my previous blog post, I wrote about writing in to MyCERT upon advice from a friend when I wanted to report a couple of phishing emails to a local bank but could not find any quick link for me to do so from the website of the bank. In all, I received three phishing […]

I have been receiving quite a number of phishing email attempts lately. Just today, one with the subject title: CIMB Customers Benefits from sericeprotection12id@cimb.com.my was filtered to my Spam Folder. For your information, I also received a similar email with the subject title: HSBC Customers Benefits a couple of days ago. It was from onlineprotectionid12@hsbc.com.my […]

The other day, I blogged about receiving an email notification from PayPal which I opted in, and some of my readers told me that that notice was a phishing mail. Well, as a blogger who blogs about scam trends, one would give me more credit than taking a phishing email as real. When I blog […]

I received an email notification from "PayPal" which was addressed: Dear P a y P a l member (yes, notice the spacing). The email informed me that my PayPal account has been deactivated due to inactivity. I am not surprised to know of the deactivation since PayPal does like to simply suspend accounts which they […]