Received a text message from someone purporting to be from the UK home office: UK home office notice for you: According to the reduction of winter heating subsidies, the living expenses subsidy will be paid as a result of the parliamentary decision. When you receive the information it means that you have obtained the qualification…
Category: Scams
Email Scam 3
Note: I have checked the bitcoin address, and unfortunately it seems that quite a few victims have fallen for this scam unfortunately hanhnguyentn@mhg.com Thu 28/12/2023 23:56 In case you didn’t get last email. Pay attention now. You have used video call recently. And I have very unfortunate news for you.I’ll give you some background on…
Email Scam 2
Cpt. Mohika Moore <test@andrevillemont.com> To:Recipients Thu 06/07/2023 00:18 Greetings My name is Cpt. Mohika Moore, a member of the Ukraine Army based in Ukraine.I am writing to you for a partnership relation with you if you are willing to show me your honesty and trust to handle this for me.Just a few days ago I discovered…
Is your business taking payment card data security seriously?
A business wouldn’t be a business if at some point along the line it wasn’t taking a payment for it’s goods and services provided. The problem however, is that when a customer pays for said goods and services, in order to make the service fast and seamless, often, their payment card data is retained by…
£17 million fine for being hacked (or 4% of turnover)
Day by day, we are seeing more and more articles related to GDPR and the impact on a business if you get hacked. One of the biggest issues, I feel, is that no matter how many precautions you put in place to secure your business from hacking, there will always be new vulnerabilities, and the…
You may be owed money if you received a robocall about a free cruise.
This was an article reported in the papers today about a rare customer win for people being harassed by cold marketing calls from a robot, meaning the people affected could receive up to $900 if they received a call! Regulatory bodies across the world are finally coming down hard on the people who breach our…
“Hello, I’d like every single piece of information you hold on me to be deleted please!”
A simple (I hope) explanation of the new GDPR ‘right to erasure’ being enforced on the 25th May 2018. The phone call/email every company dreads. It’s a client/customer contacting us to ask us for all of their information to be deleted forever. At the moment, that important client database is the hub of my business,…
Hello? This is Microsoft calling……or is it a SCAM?
I’m fed up. Time and time again hearing about innocent people falling for scams which cost them thousands of pounds and a lot of emotional distress. These online scams are designed to prey on the young and the old although with far greater success on the elderly, mainly due to their lack of knowledge on…
They tried to charge me £216 ($296) for my data!
It’s true. A company (who shall remain nameless) tried to charge me £216 ($296) to access the data they held about me on their systems. I was moving house not too long ago, and as part of the long and tedious process, all documentation about every aspect of the property is required by your buyers solicitors…