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Saturday Spam – Stat Canada Phone Calls – Vol 10
Last year, I around the beginning of October 2021, I started receiving calls from Stat Canada, saying they had a mandatory census to complete over the phone. I first received a call from this phone number 18664488030 stating it was statistics Canada at 8 PM PST. I found this extremely odd as I know that […]
MoreSaturday Spam – Have I been Pwned – IS this a Legit Site – Vol 9
HaveIbeenPwned.com, otherwise known as HIBP, is a free service a man named Troy Hunt created in an effort to help identify data breaches across the web. It does not show passwords, but shows if your email has been exposed in data breaches. Many people have speculated whether this is a safe site or not, but […]
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Saturday-Spam – WSBHOT – A crypto scam – Vol 5
Well readers! I’m again switching it up and tackling a little bit of a crypto scam – Sadly one I fell for about 9 months ago. It all started when I was mining for crypto with Nice-Hash (A questionable program I’ve since uninstalled, please look into this yourself, I may cover this later but for […]
MoreSaturday-Spam – SCAM EMAILS – PRETEND BUSINESSES – Vol 4
I’m switching gears from Spam/Scam calls, to Spam/Scam emails! Have you ever gotten an email that feels like you’ve had a conversation with someone whose name you don’t recognize, but….you don’t remember having it?? (NO NO I’m not talking about random messages you get after a night out LOL) I hope you haven’t answered them […]
MoreSaturday-Spam – PRESS 9 to be removed from the call list – Vol 3
The last two weeks, we covered how scammers call pretending to be government officials in an effort to get your information, then we covered how scammers spoof using other people’s numbers to scam you. (Once again – DO NOT CALL THESE BACK ON YOUR PHONE! If you are curious, PLEASE use an internet phone that […]
MoreSaturday-Spam – Caller ID Spoofing – Vol 2
Last week, we covered how scammers call pretending to be government officials in an effort to get your information. I also stated that these numbers came from 1-800 numbers as well as regular area codes, which if called back were either out of service or confused people! (Once again – DO NOT CALL THESE BACK […]
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