Online shoppers beware!

eg_shopicon_26This Christmas shopping season, I am seeing the scammers take new and probably effective tactics. Even though I have bought nothing from BestBuy, I have received at least a dozen emails confirming my order. I have seen many of these and not just from BestBuy, Amazon, Target and other as well. IF you use any of them you know what the emails look like and the fake ones are pretty convincing. What I noticed and always look for is a .zip attachment. If it has one that it wants you to open you can be pretty sure it isn’t from who you think. The problem is these guys are getting better and better at making these look real. This makes it a nightmare for those of us who are responsible for maintaining your computers. While I am on the subject, just as a public service announcement, back up your computer files! Some of my customers think I am a miracle worker. I do appreciate your confidence but if you click on the link to see what was ordered, I can almost guarantee some data loss and I have no miracle for that.

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