A friend sent me this e-mail phishing attempt from a month or so ago – pretending to be a Bank of Ireland [...]
Online Scams
Deceptive spam – the Irish 419 scam?
In the last couple of weeks, I’ve started to get a huge amount of spam e-mail that when I first saw it, [...]
Testing out a website that you’re not sure of – some top tips
Earlier this week I wrote a post, Websites you can trust – what to watch out for?, about things to check out [...]
Websites you can trust – what to watch out for?
In the past, I have compiled top tips to protect yourself when online – Avoid Online Scams, Protect your personal data, Avoid [...]
AIB Customers Targeted by Phishing Again
I received this e-mail during the week. It was reported last weekend that these phishing attempts have increased by 150% in the [...]
MoneyGuideIreland.com steals content – a site to avoid
It’s been another busy week here so the Consumer Weekend News Short Stack probably won’t be published this weekend. But in the [...]
Did you get an e-mail from George Towoin at Bank of Ireland?
Ignore it. It’s a phishing e-mail. It’s a scam, but it looks a lot different to a lot of others that I’ve [...]
Phishing – if anyone is fooled by this, they deserve it
For so many reasons, this is one of the worst attempts at phishing I’ve seen in a long time. I can see [...]
Allied Irish Banks hit by more complex phishing
I have this website bookmarked for quite a while now. I think I came across it while I was researching this article [...]
